COMMENT | Knives are out in the Malacca polls

COMMENT | DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang is probably right. The voter turnout in the Malacca state election could be as low as below 40 percent.

Why do I agree with Lim? Because my gut feeling tells me that very few outsiders are interested in the polls in Malacca. Only the warring politicians and their parties are because their political fortunes are at stake.

The majority of Malaysians, me included, pay little or no attention to the election in the nation’s second-smallest state.

The scant interest aside, I also think that many voters in Malacca couldn’t be bothered about returning to their home state to vote on polling day.

An example is the brother of my friend’s wife, who is from Malacca. A businessman based in Kuala Lumpur, he would dutifully return home to vote at every election, so he told me.

However, come Nov 20, he has already made up his mind to give the state election a miss because he was jaded with the political situation in the country and chose to be indifferent.

“This election in Malacca is unnecessary and meaningless. Because of four unhappy state assemblypersons, half a million voters in Malacca have to suffer the inconvenience of going out to vote in a state election...