In UMNO, there is a "dirty-tricks" team who is in charge of propaganda, election sabotage, cheating etc, in collusion with the Election Commission, Police and civil servants, and they have been around since ages, and they collaborated with the UMNO election machinery. The only thing about Najib in this election is that he does not full control of UMNO himself, and as such, if you follow carefully, Najib seeked a presidential style campaign, and in a way, it seeks to circumvent the UMNO machinery which he should likely know he will be 'sabotaged". What you are seeing in some of videos and news about this "cheating" are simply low-level operators working together under the orders of the UMNO warlords.
The results of this election speaks very well aimed to win but to be seen as worse as previous election 2008 . Najib won this election but at a lower majority, and he could not win Selangor state, and worse still, he lost further seats in that key state compared to 2008. Hence, this election, if guided by invisible hands, simply acted out as 'planned". In short, they are targeting Najib directly.
Immediately after the election results, some articles are already featured in the internet citing senior UMNO officials saying that Najib's days are numbered. To folks, it is just news, but to these political operators, they are using the social media to knife Najib.
As Najib has just 4 years in his term of office, he is likely to be ousted out and previously, he was part of the plot to oust Badawi. He could not last this political struggle as he was not meant to be around longer than one term. He just did not have enough funds to beat the masterminds in UMNO.
In UMNO which is Malaysian politics, it is all about money especially since the day Mahathir took power as PM. If you have money, you can influence the key warlords in UMNO and this small elite of a few thousands holds the power. Anybody who aspires to climb has to raise funds once they are in governmental positions, which explains why Sharizat, UMNO wanita chairperson, got $250 million for her husband to run a business which in short, for her, and why Badawi used his PM position to grant his son and son-in-law lots of business opportunities and contracts to raise funds, and why Najib got a cut in Scorpenes submarines contract for money. Almost every politician tries to raise money once he is in a position to do so. The list is very long and endless. When these scandals are exposed, you can guess it is your enemies or opponents in UMNO who leak out the news. So Sharizat in her moment of anger, made the off-the-cuff remark about her husband getting the money is "nothing new" and "almost everybody" does it. But her message is directed at her opponents - if they go any further, she would do likewise to "expose" them.
In a country when you get exposed in corruption scandal, the punishment is actually quite "light" especially if you are a top-level politician. The reason is that almost everybody is doing it, and each person if exposed, is meant as a a scapegoat, and if this goes on in a vicious circle, then continuing revelations will "kill" everyone. So these exposures will have some ending as they deal behind the doors, and so if you look carefully, almost everybody who got exposed, gets off lightly in the end.
No need to guess who are the masterminds in this campaign, and there are only 2 fellows who got the size of funds to orchestrate all these.
Notice how Kedah is convincingly won this time around, and you have an idea the loss to opposition in the last election was "likely" planned to stage a win this time around.
If Najib has full control, he would have planned a better result for himself. Nope, he didn't cos I reckoned the orders that were sent out, are not fully obeyed.
All these are "unknown" to the public, but to these political operators, they are playing this game, and in this case, Najib has "lost". Muhiddyin is just a part player, and eventually if he took over, he will just be like Najib - to last one term, unless he can maneuver better than Najib.
Najib, in all the calculations, has done whatever he could under this scenario. He is a cautious fellow by nature, and he did not take the gamble like Badawi to go after Mahathir, and as such, he did not do much against corruption or even the "token" attempts like Badawi. In reality, it is quite difficult to go against corruption and cronyism as long as this present Government is in control, in short UMNO. You are going against an institution which has built its tentacles into the civil service, police, military and into the whole political structure right down to the village and even more so, you are part of a process which you are enriched as well as a player.
As in all politics, the reason why there will be a fight, is that the folks in UMNO will split, and some would go over to the opposition, and there you have, these are the ones now fighting against corruption and cronyism as they are no longer in the political mainstream. Eventually some would make peace and go back to UMNO where there is money to be made - this is part and parcel of Malaysian politics. Anwar is at loggerheads with Mahathir, both men would never make peace especially when Anwar made a move to go after Mahathir when he was DPM. No surprise why Anwar was set free from prison under Badawi, which is to give him a free licence to go after Mahathir.
in fact, i pay them instead of they pay me to vote BN, somemore i can blend in with the true blue malaysian. As for national anthem test, just say i studied in singapore since kindergarten so dunno msia anthem also not strange. a few of my jb friends really cannot sing negaraku.
