General elections to be held very soon

It should be pretty obvious by now that the general elections will be held very soon.



Some newspapers have reported that it will be held some time in the first half of July before the fasting month of Ramadhan starts.


If this window is missed, then it will have to be after the Hari Raya Aidil-Fitri celebrations and the likely date will be some time in September.


But at the rate that the Barisan Nasional Government and politicians have shifted gears and started moving faster with swift and stinging attacks on the Opposition figures, it looks like the more likely date will be in July.


This will indeed be the most highly-anticipated general elections in Malaysia for a long time.


Can Pakatan Rakyat march all the way to Putrajaya and seize power?


Will Barisan Nasional lose after having controlled this nation (in one form or other) since its Independence?


Will Malaysia finally have a two-party (or two-coalition) political system?

June or September?

Everybody's talkin' about...the general elections these days.


Everywhere I go, I am always asked: "Elections, when ah?"


And everybody has become a pundit - "June-lah," "Not so soon-lah," "Later in the year-lah," "Cannot be-lah. Sooner better, wait some more got some more problems BN cannot solve."


Well, the general consensus is that the general elections will be held either in June or September.


It surely will not be held in July because that's the fasting month for Muslims. Ramadan is expected to begin on or around July 20 and will end on or around August 19.


At the rate that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is playing Santa Claus travelling all over the country and distributing goodies and cash to both the naughty and nice, June is the best bet.


If he waits any longer, the feel-good factor will dissipate and Malaysians - the majority of whom have rather short memories - would have forgotten (or, more likely, spent) the cash handouts.


And the BN government may not have enough monetary reserves to go for another round of distributing cash handouts.