Alright, maybe the term ‘kid’ is not right in this particular instance. However, all media reports seem to indicate that Anwar Ibrahim has won the Permatang Pauh bye-election. I will forever remember the name of his constituency as it was the question that knocked us out of the Quiz Perdana qualifiers. We were tied with another school and my team mate dropped the ball when he failed to remember the name of the constituency.
So, the question on most peoples’ minds now is whether or not Anwar will be able to back up his words and takeover the government. Personally, I’m not really bothered with this. What I am more concerned with is does Anwar have any right in taking over the government by crossing defectors over to his side.
Personally, I don’t think that political cross-overs are a very democratic thing to do. The voters generally vote for a party and not the individual. Hence, if someone voted for BN and put BN into power a constituency, I don’t think that it is right for the MP to then change flags and cross-over to the opposition 6 months after the election.
The proper democratic way of doing this would be for the cross-over MPs to call for bye-elections in their individual constituencies and run on a different ticket. They can either run as independents or as candidates from PR instead of BN. The whole idea is to let the people voice out their choice, which is the basic essence of democracy.
Personally, I don’t think very much of politicians but I think even less of party-hopping MPs. These people are only looking out for their own hide and I don’t think that it will do anyone any good in keeping them around.
As I have always said, a coin has 3 sides. Yes, many of us want to see a (hopefully positive) change in the government. However, there are different ways to do it: the politically expedient way or the right way. If PR comes to power because of a few snakes, I don’t think that makes them any better than BN.
Sybreon Ones Nought 
Since we are at this topic of PP by-election…something of interest…
Check this out.
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id=352832
This Arif guy’s education background is a bit dodgy…you remember you blogged about the International Idiot University? Arif graduated from Graber International and Federal Institut of Technology. A quick search on Google returned the result,
“Did you mean: Grabber International”
“Did you mean: Federal Institute of Technology”
err..I was hoping for exact hits.
Yea. It sucks when someone feels that they need to get some fake degrees to pad their credentials. Unfortunately, in this wonderful world that we live in, people are almost entirely superficial and care more about a piece of paper than anything else. He isn’t the first to do it, and he won’t be the last. Degree mills are a big industry.