Malaysia Political Scenario

Nowadays, Malaysia’s political environment has been in instable condition. Since the general election, our politics can be assumed to be in turmoil. Our government had failed to win by more than 2/3 margin. Many of political analysts had labeled the general election’s result as ‘political tsunami’. Besides, there have been rumors that seven of BN alternatives party are going to join the ‘Pakatan Rakyat’ on September 16^th which will enable Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to be our sixth Prime Minister. Today’s news reported that our current Prime Minister vowed that he would do all that he could within his power to prevent this tragedy from happening. Pak Lah said during the press conference that Pakatan Rakyat is depending highly on BN component party in order to realize their dream to rule Malaysia. He said that BN is still a very strong party and it is the only political party that being mandated by Malaysia’s citizen to rule for five years period of time. From his point of view, it can be assumed that our Prime Minister thought that due to their least winning margin in history, Malaysian are still sticking up with Barisan Nasional. He also thought that there are no possibilities at all that Pakatan Rakyat’s plan will succeed by September 16^th.

*BCT term(s): Ad populum Fallacy of False Dilemma.