Voters left feeling ‘powerless’ in ongoing political gridlock following Malaysia GE15 outcomes: Consultants

The king can be holding a special meeting with fellow rulers on Thursday (Nov 24), to see if they’ll clear up the political deadlock.

Perikatan Nasional (PN) chief Muhyiddin Yassin had declared that his coalition won’t be forming a unity authorities with opposition chief Anwar Ibrahim’s PH. The 2 blocs are frontrunners after securing the best variety of seats within the Nov 19 polls, with neither reaching a easy majority, leading to a hung parliament.

VOTERS LEFT FEELING POWERLESS

Voters in Malaysia could also be left feeling like their efforts to forged their ballots have made no affect on the nation’s democracy.

Ms Tricia Yeoh, chief govt officer of the Institute for Democracy and Financial Affairs, mentioned the lead-up to the election and the precise polls itself, “came about in a quite muted method”.

“Elements of Malaysia had been already flooding, and so there was already a form of disenfranchisement with politics as an entire,” she advised CNA938 on Wednesday (Nov 23).

Nonetheless, the marketing campaign interval rejuvenated voters who turned extra excited concerning the electoral contest.

“The voter turnout was very excessive, which signifies that many Malaysians really took the time, bothered to return back to their hometowns, a few of them braving visitors jams for shut to twenty hours,” mentioned Ms Yeoh.