So the Malaysian parliament was dissolved yesterday to pave the way for the general election, a once-in-a-five-year magical moment for Malaysia and Malaysians.
Reuters reported it this way: “Malaysia’s premier called on Wednesday for fresh elections that he is certain to win, kicking off a campaign likely to be overshadowed by racial issues and religious tension in the southeast Asian nation.”
The upcoming polls — whose date is to be announced today — is the 12th in Malaysia’s history and could be the most spectacular yet.
Elections are such an electrifying force that just about every Malaysians, except babies and small kids and some disinterested fellow, would get politically-charged as the anticipation builds up in the run up to the dissolution of parliament.
Now that the Parliament is dissolved, you can expect a very lively election scenario, to put it mildly.
You can now bet on both sides of the divide to accuse each other of making empty promises, of how certain parties or leaders resorting to making cakap tak serupa bikin, meaning saying one thing, but doing another, for want of better translation.
Perhaps it could also be transpated as delivering promises that are already broken. By the way the word in the title shoud be spelled bikin, meaning to do something.
Someone has already fired the first salvo but one of the most colourful politicians Malaysia has had in recent times will not be there to fire the first saliva. He has retired.
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