Democracy at uncharted areas: A Joke or valuable discovery?

In the 12th general election, which is dubbed as “political tsunami”, years of Barisan Nasional (BN) dominance in Malaysian politic was suddenly crashed by the opposition alliance’s people power. Ever since, democracy system in Malaysia has been exploring uncharted areas day by day.

The latest or perhaps also the most interesting is the Perak saga. Among those uncharted areas include phenomena of “jumping frog” that led to the case of two opposing Menteri Besar (MB), questioning the legitimacy of each other. The case is hence dubbed “MB vs. MB case”. Another one is today emergency sitting of Perak state assembly which held under a tree! Hence, some Pakatan supporters dubbed the tree as "pokok demokrasi" (democracy tree) (Ong 2008).

The ongoing Perak saga again and again throw fresh doubt about BN’s integrity as well as neutrality of law enforcement authority (the police, particularly). In this case, should the BN go all out to stop the state assembly? If the BN "order" the Pakatan state assemblymen to wait and settle dispute in court, why not they wait and prove their legality in the court first before declaring their are legal state government of Perak?

Anyway, the below picture may worth thousand of words on democracy in uncharted areas… but whether the happening is a worth discovery or a shameful joke is yet to know. Perhaps, time will tell.


(Source: The Malaysian Insider.com)

Reference:
Ong, Andrew. High drama, violence & 'pokok demokrasi'. Available at http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/99471. Access date: 3 March 2009.