(Jeffooi)Both MCA and Parti Gerakan, whose leaders had been attempting to revive sagging grassroot morale by demanding drastic change in Umno, had held their respective party elections recently.
How hungry are MCA and Gerakan members, and how truly are they crying for change in Malaysian politics, something we heard them clamouring for immediately after GE2008? One way to look at it is to find out how many delegates actually turned out to cast their votes for change during the party election.
For Gerakan, which held its party election on October 11, a total of 2,080 delegates were eligible to vote while 1,560 delegates actually turned out to vote. Turnout rate was 75%.
For MCA, which held its party election on October 18, a total of 2,401 delegates were eligible to vote while a total of 2,378 delegates actually turned out to vote. That's a turnout rate of 99.04%.
Let's see how hungry Umno members are for change, but the results won't be known till March, if no flip-flop happens again.
For the voters at large, it's talk plus action. They had made their marks in four states and one federal territory (11 minus 1) by voting out the Umno-led dominance on March 8, 2008. The present Kelantan was a done deal since 1990.
How hungry are MCA and Gerakan members, and how truly are they crying for change in Malaysian politics, something we heard them clamouring for immediately after GE2008? One way to look at it is to find out how many delegates actually turned out to cast their votes for change during the party election.
For Gerakan, which held its party election on October 11, a total of 2,080 delegates were eligible to vote while 1,560 delegates actually turned out to vote. Turnout rate was 75%.
For MCA, which held its party election on October 18, a total of 2,401 delegates were eligible to vote while a total of 2,378 delegates actually turned out to vote. That's a turnout rate of 99.04%.
Let's see how hungry Umno members are for change, but the results won't be known till March, if no flip-flop happens again.
For the voters at large, it's talk plus action. They had made their marks in four states and one federal territory (11 minus 1) by voting out the Umno-led dominance on March 8, 2008. The present Kelantan was a done deal since 1990.
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