Will MCA and MIC fight for your rights?

Decision-making power process within our present cabinet - UMNO: 35.9% of the vote, 73% of all cabinet positions

UMNO not only controls the parliament via Barisan, it has allocated itself 24 cabinet positions or 73% of all cabinet positions.

MCA has 4 cabinet positions or 12% of the cabinet positions.

MIC has 1 cabinet position or 3 % of the cabinet positions.

Gerakan has 1 cabinet position or 3% of the cabinet positions.

Other component parties hold 3 cabinet positions or 9% of the cabinet positions.

The opposition with 36.2% of all the popular votes is not given a single cabinet position.(This is for sure because they are not in the government)

Please note that although UMNO controls 50% of all parliamentary seats, it controls 73% of all the decision making processes within the cabinet.

BN Hierarchy of Power - Other parties not allowed to keep UMNO in check

Under the Barisan Party whip system, the majority component party within Barisan will dictate the rules of the game.

Other Barisan component parties like MCA, Gerakan or MIC cannot vote against what UMNO decides in whatever it likes, even if they wanted to. They cannot even abstain from voting without being punished.

Then how can the MCA or MIC be able to fight for your rights?

Education - Racial quotas openly practiced

"As the Higher Education Minister, I will ensure the quota of Malay students' entry into universities is always higher" - Higher Education Minister, Dr. Shafie Salleh

In 2006, 77.2% of scholarships allocated to Bumis as part of quota requirements, while students of other races with better results are left out.

Non-bumiputera enrollment to matriculation colleges is limited to less than 10% of the total intake

Still believe MCA or MIC will be able to fight for your rights?

Our Constitution - Changed at whim by BN

Since 1957, BN has amended the constitution 690 times to propagate its power. By comparison, USA which is more 200 years old has only amended its constitution 27 times; Singapore as little as only 4 times.

Barisan has the ability to amend the constitution as it likes due to its complete control of the government.

2004 Election Stats - UMNO: 35.9% of the Vote, 50% of the seats

UMNO received 35.9% of the popular votes but has 110 parliamentary seats or 50% of all parliamentary seats.

In total, Barisan received 63.8% of the popular votes but has 199 parliamentary seats or 91% of all parliamentary seats.

The opposition received 36.2% of the popular votes but has only 20 parliamentary seats or 9% of all parliamentary seats mainly because of gerrymandering.


Read more at::

http://votewisely.blogspot.com/2008/02/truth-behind-bns-23-majority.html

Note: Gerrymandering:manipulate a constituency, etc by division into voting areas so as to give unfair advantages to one party or class in elections, practise trickery.

I promote think rightly. Do you agree with what the writer says?