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Posted: 22 Apr 2013 10:54 PM PDT

Change through the ballot box in a democracy should never be disruptive or chaotic, and rhetoric suggesting otherwise is disingenuous. Najib likes to say: "The time has come for Malaysians to make a decision." Actually, the time has come for Malaysia's government to grow up.

William Pesek, Bloomberg

In his bid for re-election, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has dispensed with all shame. Vote for me, he has essentially declared, or Malaysia will suffer "catastrophic ruin" and an "Arab Winter" of the kind that has undone economies from Egypt to Libya.

Both warnings are ludicrous -- signs of how worried Najib's National Front coalition is of losing power for the first time since 1957. They speak to the desperation of a government that has come to serve itself, not Malaysia's 29 million people. And they are emblematic of a leader whose talk of bold change hasn't been matched by action.

Najib's claim is this: Giving the opposition, led by former Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim, a chance to lead on May 5 would reverse all the gains Malaysia has made since the 2008 financial crisis. The economy would crater, stocks and the currency would plunge, and chaos would reign.

Najib's scaremongering, some of which came out of an April 17 Bloomberg News interview, smacks of the re-election campaign run almost a decade ago by then U.S. President George W. Bush. Instead of this vote-for-me-or-you're-in-danger appeal, Najib should scare up some headline-grabbing reforms that leave Malaysia better off in the future.

Najib Picks Race-baiting Candidates for Malaysia Poll

Posted: 22 Apr 2013 12:10 PM PDT

Decision further indicates abandonment of multiracial political coalition

"Maybe Mahathir didn't tell Najib directly, but the message was clear, and having seen what he did to Badawi, Najib didn't want to clash with him," a well-wired political source said. Ibrahim Ali will contest a seat in Kelantan, a largely mountainous state dominated by rural Malays. Zulkifli was picked to run in Shah Alam, a Kuala Lumpur suburb.

John Berthelsen, Asia Sentinel

The extent to which the United Malays National Organization has abandoned Malaysia's historic multiracial governance is exemplified by last Saturday's naming of flamethrowing Malay nationalists Ibrahim Ali and Zulkifli Noordin as parliamentary candidates in the upcoming May 5 election.

In addition, UMNO has "borrowed" at least five parliamentary seats from the faltering Malaysian Chinese Association, the second-biggest party in the Barisan Nasional, or ruling coalition, and filled them with candidates picked by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.

"We have taken back many seats from the MCA," said an UMNO source. "A lot of MCA seats were actually UMNO seats in the first place as Malay majority areas but in the spirit of cooperation we gave them the seats. Now we take them back."

The decision for UMNO to basically go it alone is viewed as ominous for the country by political analysts in Kuala Lumpur, who say that if, as expected, the party pulls out a victory in the 13th general election, they fear that it consigns the ethnic minority Chinese and Indian populations, who make up 22.9 percent and 7.1 percent of the country's population respectively, to powerlessness in government and society. Ethnic Malays make up 60.1 percent according to the 2010 census.

Ibrahim and Zulkifli are the president and vice president respectively of Perkasa, a conservative, extreme-right Malay superiority organization that got its start after the country's 2008 electoral debacle that cost the Barisan Nasional its two-thirds majority in the Dewan Rakyat, or Parliament. It has the backing of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who urged that the two be named candidates.

Mahathir has become increasingly strident over protecting the status of ethnic Malays in Malaysian society despite Najib's continued stressing of Malaysia's composition as a moderate multiracial country. The naming of the two Perkasa leaders as candidates is a clear demonstration of Mahathir's continuing clout despite having left power a decade ago, in 2003. After bequeathing the premiership to his chosen candidate, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahathir turned on Badawi after the 2008 election and played a major role in driving him from power so that Najib Tun Razak could take over.

BN’s costly early errors

Posted: 22 Apr 2013 12:04 PM PDT

This article takes a look at the major events that have arisen since the dissolution of Parliament.

There are four main issues in the political campaign: Barisan Nasional's dirty tactics, clean governance, Pakatan Rakyat's unity, and Pakatan's readiness to govern.

Galvin Wong, FMT

After the dissolution of Parliament, Malaysian politics characteristically burst into life with a flurry of activities last week.

The release of a sex video, the launching of manifestos and announcement of candidates from both sides of the political divide as well as a last-minute controversial announcement from the Registrar of Societies (ROS) concerning DAP's leadership election culminated in a nomination day that saw scores of Independents putting themselves forward as candidates.

The recent frenzied state of activity is the result of an increase in politicisation of an already highly politicised environment.

This being the last stage of the fight, political parties are battling to highlight weaknesses of their opponents in order to gain crucial momentum that will build towards increasing their support among the public.

This article takes a look at the major events that have arisen since the dissolution of Parliament. It highlights the issues that surround these events and analyses its political impact on the electorate.

There are four main issues in the political campaign: Barisan Nasional's dirty tactics, clean governance, Pakatan Rakyat's unity, and Pakatan's readiness to govern.

These four issues have been the focus of events that have happened recently. However, unlike previous engagements where BN and Pakatan have both come out winners, the outcome of these recent events have clearly benefited Pakatan. We shall analyse each issue accordingly.

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