Interfering Bloody Foreigner!

I have to say something about the election, so here goes!

My deux centimes worth is that the result is good for Malaysia and its rakyat. It gives the opposition parties, who are always described (in The Star anyway) as useless worthless liars, to really show what they can do. If they do well - great. If they don't, at least then the voters will have had the ability to assess the performance of a different leadership.

The fact that their opponents won a lot more than expected also gives BN a far greater incentive to do improve their own performance. Either way - the rakyat should win.

I also think that the result will further improve what is probably an already relatively high opinion of Malaysia in the eyes of the West. It is now very obvious that the democratic process is free and fair - perhaps not 100% - to a large degree. How many other SE Asian countries would have an election result like that?

On a personal note, I hope that the political upheaval will not delay the Pahang-Selangor water transfer project - but I fear that it will.