But unlike the other swearings that got the news, Anwar Ibrahim will be sworn in tomorrow as a new member of Parliament – God willing that is.

Yesterday Anwar Ibrahim won the Permatang Pauh by-election with a 2/3 majority of the votes:

Anwar Ibrahim now faces 3 challenges:

1. staying alive
    
2. staying out of jail and
    
3. living up to his promise: taking over the government by forming a majority coalition at September 16th.

Whatever happens, we hope Malaysia will benefit.

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Today there are by-elections in Permatang Pauh to vote Anwar Ibrahim back into Parliament or not. It’s almost 1 pm, all is calm and it started to rain.

All is going reasonably smooth, although there is chanting of "liwat" (sodomy charges against Anwar Ibrahim) against "Altantuya!" (an unsolved murder crime involving ‘a very high ranking BN politician’).

Liwat and Altantuya are a far cry of what you would expect politics is about:

making a country a better place for its citizens to live in.

Another far cry is the personalization involved: it shouldn’t be about Anwar but again about:

making a country a better place for its citizens to live in.

And for the masks… I am always afraid when people don’t show their own face. Why?

Because it’s easy for people to forget they are looking at a mask and not at the person behind the mask.

There is no guarantee that the person behind the mask is from the same party as the person on the mask…

As long as there is no violence, all is done in good faith. But when there are masks instigating violence, then you need to remember that the picture on the mask is not the person behind the mask!

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