Sunday 5 August 2018.
Sg. Kandis was touted as many things: PH's acid test; UMNO's revival; rejection of "anti-Malay" elements in the PH government etc,etc.
My take of the results yesterday is: the 50,000 voters are tired of this election thing, but they know that UMNO/PAS can't unseat the PH even as they sat out the voting this time around.
The figures speak for themselves. 50% were sure PH retains power; 50% came out to vote to make sure; 64% of those who voted made this sure; 36% of the combined UMNO/PAS voters believed their old lies and their old style of lying.
Najib and Annuar Musa and the rest of them even invoked God in the sad misfortunes of the PH members who died and caused the vacancies, such is their standard of piety and moral fibre. In their own language, God denied them.
UMNO might make something of the actual figures garnered from this bye-election. For instance, while UMNO got 11,518 votes at GE14 out of the total 35,516 valid votes cast, or 32.43% of it, this time it obtained 9,585 out of 25,282 total, a lower figure but at 37.01% a higher percentage. However the 50% who didn't bother to turn up were obviously confident of the PH's victory. Even if this group is split into 2, the additional figure for PH would be even higher than that at GE 14 itself.
Balakong is next. BN has 2 chances - slim & none.
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