Pre General Election 13- What's Hot?

Salam... In less than 24 hours, Malaysia will face their 13th General Election. Are you a Malaysian? If yes, are entitle to vote? If yes, are you voting this Sunday? I am. I'm voting in Kedah. This is not suppose to be my first General Election that I entitle to vote. Unfortunately, this is the first one that I'll exercise my right for my country. 

Here's the summary of what attract me in this GE13: 

1. The ruling party and the opposition party are leveraging the social media usage. You can find many pages in Facebook who is pro and anti the both parties. The pages also very active in updating their status with hot gossip and news. 

2. Cyber troopers, the name given to people who has knowledge in sabotaging people using information technologies.  They  spread out the sex videos (I don't know whether is real or fake) of politicians. They also will hack people's social media account. Search for Mustafa Ali, Anwar Ibrahim, Azmin Ali and enjoy! Azhar Sulaiman, an actor and who is pro BN, made police report when his Facebook account been hacked and received threaten letter. 

3. Flag war! It's everywhere! Even at shops and residents house.

Nurul Izzah Anwar and 'spring' flag in Bangsar

4. Both parties are using attractive manifestos in their campaign. In my personal opinion, I'm move with both parties' manifesto, but whether it is achievable, it is a question. For the first time in history, BN manifesto was presented live telecast throughout the country!

5. Few member of party, both ruling and opposition, are unsatisfied with the chosen candidates. Some taking drastic move by quitting the party and becoming independent candidate.

Datuk Kamilia Ibrahim from UMNO is not satisfy for not been elected to becoming the candidate in Kuala Kangsar, made decision to walk out from UNMO and BN and contest as Independent.

Ibrahim Ismail is out from PAS and contests as Independent for DUN Selinsing.

6. Few senior politicians are not becoming the candidates, either because they want to give way to the new comers or because of their past record. 

Koh Tsu Koon from Gerakan is giving way for young candidate.

7. It is a surprise to see few politicians are jumping from their previous party to the other.

Read more here, here and here.

8. For the first time in the history, PAS, DAP and PKR are united under one roof: Pakatan Rakyat and stand as an opposition party.

9. Therefore, in a seat, the candidate has to be determine whether from PAS, PKR or DAP. As this is the first time for them to team up, the distribution comes along with the rumors of unsatisfactions. Unlike BN that has years of experience in distributing the seat according to the strength of the support in the area, the Opposition party can't really tell whether the supporters will support the candidate of theirs.

Read more here.

10. We also can see some hot seats, but the most interesting for me is at Gelang Patah; between Ghani Othman and Lim Kit Siang.

Lim Kit Siang is testing Abdul Ghani's strength in Gelang Patah

11. This is the second time for the current king to dissolve a parliament. The first time he dissolved was when Tun Razak as Malaysia Prime Minister. And now, his son, Najib Tun Razak is the Prime Minister. Najib also seek the King's permission to dissolve the Parliament on the anniversary of his service. 

Najib Tun Razak and DYMM Sultan Abdul Halim 

So to my fellow Malaysians, please exercise your right.