So years ago Pak Lah - Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi came in power with the promise of transparency, so far sounds good.

Then you ask him February 14, 2008:

• are you going to dissolve parliament tomorrow and declare elections?
• NO says Badawi

Of course the next day Februari 15 he announces a snap election to be held March 8…

Transparency of course?

Asked if he wasn’t a bit not telling the truth the evening before, Pak Lah answered that he still needed to ask for permission of the king…

Fair enough if I am in a good mood, but transparency-wise: shouldn’t you have said: I am intending to, all I need is the permission of the king which you know is most likely a formality…

This kind of NO sounds even worse than his previous famous quote DUN-NO

How funny and fair are elections?

Some election official was asked if there were "death votes". Says the funny man: I never saw a zombie going to the voting boot… Anyway, I don’t think it’s up to me to explain how in our European democracies death voters were quite normal the first 50 years in the democracy

Then the ink you will get on your finger: a novelty in this years’s election… Isn’t that something they use in countries in Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan because there is no decent infrastructure to have decent voting? Aren’t we going to be a developed country in 2020?

The fun of giving the Indians a free day off after spraying them with teargas and accusing them of murder when they tried to do some manifestation on the streets… Same like in our European young democracies: there was no such thing as freedom of speech, nor in the streets, nor in the newspapers.

And then the most funny of them all: "some voters will not be able to vote because the voting papers are not ready".

Shouldn’t you print those papers first and then call for elections? Anyway, that we never heard off in European democracies, so I must say Malaysia is quite a frontrunner here!

What about oil prices?

The faster you have elections, the faster you can start a second term (gosh, you have the majority even without all the funny ideas), the faster you can raise oil-prices and unfortunately no transparency where all the extra money goes to, neither how effective the ROI of that money is…

Yet again, that happens almost everywhere worldwide, sadly but true. It would have been nice that somebody started to make a difference…

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