Can We Hope for This in Malaysia?

This is a story of basic democracy at work.
Very little money was spent on the election campaign but the end result is the choice of the people. If only we can have this kind of participation in our local governments.

What’s that? Gangsters and secret societies not included.

We seem to have our election development upside down. In Malaysia perhaps 1000 party members select the Prime Minister and the ordinary citizen has very little say except to vote for the political party he belongs to in the general elections.

After that the Cabinet decides on everything and those being governed are seldom heard unless there is widespread protest. Only lately there have been a few squeaks from the BBC and a few MPs.

Local elections will be a good testing ground for aspiring leaders and also provide the national leaders a large pool of candidates to pick for the state and national seats.

If a person cannot manage a local council properly there is no need to let him or her contest the bigger posts.

Let us eliminate mediocrity from our government systems and the fundamental way to do that is let us not choose mediocre leaders.