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Dear Editor, WITH polling day due in 10 days, I wonder what improvements nominated candidates are pledging to the people in their constituencies.
Tarring new roads, visiting folks in welfare homes and other such things are common activities undertaken by candidates during the election season.
No place is out of bounds for them to squeeze in as much exposure as they can.
However, I am certain that these acts of goodwill will only take place during the cam paign period.
After the election, things will go back to normal.
For example, complaints about potholes will still take more than a year to be re solved.
I hope that all the candid ates will serve the public, be fore and after the election, and work sincerely in to help the people.
Don’t appear to be hardworking and caring to win the people’s hearts during the election campaign alone.
Husna Husni
Kuala Lumpur
Source: Malay Mail – February 28, 2008
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Peter Yew
February 28th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Some people think that the handouts given during election campaigns are gifts from the government. They are actually our money. Oppositions do not have access to hand them out so are at a disadvantage. We must therefore vote not based on what we are given - for that can be construed as a bribe - but on past records, on fulfilment of promises made, on enforcing the constitution, the Rukunnegara and the Wawasan 2020. If the government has not delivered then they must be told - via the votes. They are the collective way we tell them to behave and pull up their socks. It is not that we don’t want them to win, but victory comes with a responsibility to serve. Don’t let arrogance come with another landslide.