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Earlier this year, I received news that Sarawak state election will most likely be before or after Raya.  As I was told that they were starting to mobilize and beginning to get funding for their campaigns.  Anyhow, signs are really showing especially when news is circling our current CM in Sarawak apparently have been in the headlines very frequently as of late (good and bad).

I believe this will be a testing ground for our current PM to see if Sarawak will continue to be a deposit for the ruling coalition of Barisan Nasional.  Plus the number of increase of his popularity shows that he might be calling for a snap election sooner than we thought.  Maybe that’s why you see currently UMNO is trying to distance itself from Perkasa, and uniting with other BN components to prove a point that BN is all about 1Malaysia.

It will be interesting to see how the outcome of the current election here in Sarawak.  I talked to a numbered of people throughout this year asking them who they would be voting for.  There has been a fair share of BN and PR, but some answer I received which I find it amusing.  They were saying for Parliamentary seats they will be voting for PR, but as for State Election they will continue to vote for BN.  Reason behind it saying that at least in the parliament there would be voice from Sarawak to demand more from the country, where as for the State seats they just to ensure that development would still be carried out.

In terms of generations, older people tend to vote for BN while the younger generations will stick their guns with PR. But I do meet some young people that they will continue to vote for BN because they’re parents are hard core supporters of BN. Lol, so they will always think that the opposition are here to sort of “kacau” development.

I’m not too sure about the rural areas though.  No doubt media have been doing a lot of writing that some are angry, while others are not with the current government.  But you can’t really judge from that, as the media tends to make small news seems so big.  I believed that a lot of the rural folks are currently happy with the situation where they are at the moment.  As most of them are currently old and thinks that the government is doing well.  Plus they don’t get news about what is currently happening with the country.  I believe that they are more concern about the news of their family and friends instead.  So it would be interesting to see the results later, so you can pretty much be sure who is talking facts or fictions.

I guess there will be more ugly things popping out about CM and his family wealth, which I sort of have a conspiracy theory about it.  But I won’t be talking about that, because after all.  This is politics. But I still think urban areas will most likely fall to the hands of PR, and rural areas will still continue to be within BN hands.

Since PKR will be having their election as well, I believe BN will most likely be observing the flaws that could come out during the campaigning and might be used against them in this coming election.  You never know, maybe our current CM will have an inspiration and call for a state election on the very day PKR is holding.  And probably that would be something interesting to see.

Anyway, these are just my thoughts and opinions only.  So whatever I say here has pretty much nothing to do deter you from your faith in whichever party you decide to vote for.  So have you registered to be a voter yet? Because this is the only day when you really have the power to choose which party to represent you in making Malaysia a better place for you and your future generation.