Dr.M has wrong perception of Chinese wanting to grab both political and ecenomic dominance.

Barisan Nasional needs to tune to the clear signals from the last two general elections.

Former Prime Minister Tun Dr.Mahathir has wrong perception of Chinese wanting to grab both political and ecenomic dominance in Malaysia.Chinese in Malaysia has never has the idea of dominating both politics and economics.The Chinese is very happy that Malaysia is ruled by the predominantly Malays.What the Chinese wants is that they are treated fairly as Malaysians.

Malays and other indigenous people need not fear of Chinese dominance as any  government wants to stay in power need to take care of  electorates predominant majority.Chinese is not greedy and they understand the concept of sharing of power and wealth very well.But at present they feel they are not getting the fair share in almost all spheres of field.

A large educated middle-class Malaysian has emerged and a strong business comminity with moderate political leaning has rejected the radical appeals of extremists of either side. 

Government attempts at reform have not built public confidence that it is really serious about changing the ways in which it governs, does business and conducts politics.It remains uncertain which way to move forward.BN particularly UMNO is at cross road, want to fully embrace and implement a democratic transformation agenda and win back public confidence that it is truly capable of change or turn back to authoritarian rule to assert its dominance.

The race-based parties set up to protect and promote the interest of their own ethnic communities have today lost much of their language of legitimacy in the eyes of the electorate.

In Taiwan, South Korea and Indonesia, incumbent presidents saw clearly that time was running out for the old form of authoritarian politics and adopted new legitimacy strategies of democratic reforms in order to survive.T, South Korea and Indonesia were once ruled by authoritarian regimes. And yet the dominant ruling parties of all three countries successfully chose the road to democratisation and still won elections.  

Long-term grievances over corruption, rising cost of living and income inequality, politics of race and religion,public transportation,environmental issue, restrictions on constitutional guarantees of fundamental liberties – all remain largely unresolved. 

It is sad that racial identification is still prevalent in the society espeacially while dealing with civil service matters.Government leaders must show true leadership and consistent political will by adopting the visionary 1 Malaysia concept.

 

Signals of political trouble are palpable. To still continue to resist genuine reform while your popularity is plummeting, internal cohesion is fraying and your legitimacy formula is increasingly discredited is to invite certain defeat, and maybe even retribution.

So how then can a strong, well-resourced ruling party that is in decline acquire new legitimacy to continue to win the public mandate to rule?