What is the significance of the 2/3 majority?

Excellent article on the changes done to our constitution to allow gerry-meandering and mal-apportionment, leading to the current situation of same vote, different value. The 2/3 majority in parliament that we entrusted BN with has allowed them to do these changes to the constitution. Is it time to take it back? Read, and you can decide on March 8th

Full article here - http://chinhuatw.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/82/

Some extracts from the article:

In 2004, Putrajaya returned a parliamentarian with only 5079 voters. Just less than 100 kilometers away, Kapar (next to Klang) with 104,185 voters also returned one parliamentarian.

Such inequality is called mal-apportionment of constituencies. At the time of Independence, the Federal Constitution stipulated that seats should be as far as possible allocated equally to every state based on their population while the largest constituency within a state must not be more than 15% larger than the average seat and the smallest not more than 15% smaller.

In other words, the largest constituency in a state can at most be 1.35 times (115%/85%) the smallest.

The 1962 Constitutional Amendment repealed such limits and replaced with a much lenient requirement that a rural constituency cannot be smaller than 50% of an urban constituency in electorate size. .... it is no secret that such mal-apportionment aims to benefit UMNO whose power base was in the rural area.

The Federal Constitution was again amended in 1973 to do away the 50% cap. The Election Commission has since had a free hand in redistricting the constituencies.

This kind of article will set you thinking, thinking about your future.

What is MCA, MIC, Gerakan saying about this?