This week, college students throughout Malaysia are polling to elect Student Representative Council members. Pro-opposition student groups allege that there are several irregularities going on however. They also claim unjust policies are being implemented by universities’ administrators to make it harder for them to participate in the election. As an act of protest, pro-opposition groups have decided to boycott the election.
A boycott could have a myriad of effects on many players. Unfortunately, the boycott is affecting the pro-opposition badly while their rivals are free and unscathed. Reason is, the boycott effectively hands over sufficient number of seats to pro-government student groups while the pro-opposition gains practically nothing.
As such, future ruling by the Student Representative Council will ignore pro-opposition’s dissenting views simply because pro-opposition won’t have noticeable voting power in the council.
If the pro-opposition groups hadn’t boycott the election, they could have a number of seats in the council. With their representatives, they could vote for an enquiry over the alleged irregularities and unfair policies. Thanks to the pro-opposition bright leadership however, such notion is harder to realize. Moreoever, their groups will become irrelevant this time around.
For the pro-opposition student groups’ leaders, c’mon, think for a sec. Do you think your opponents are losing sleep because of your boycott? Hell no! They are probably jumping joyfully while trying to lick their free fat, fat candy. Only a group of fools would disfranchise themselves and the pro-opposition groups are that fools.
As for now, I simply hope that none of the pro-opposition student groups’ leaders will lead any opposition political parties in Malaysia. If they are, then the opposition parties will have a lot of problems.
p/s – Ajax is up against Arsenal in a few hours. I hope Arsenal will get a good beating though I myself are unsure of Ajax’s recent performance.
