COMMENT | Whoever wins, nothing will change for Malacca

COMMENT | We should have learned many lessons over the last three years since the 14th general election (GE14) in 2018 and the Sabah snap polls in September last year.

A large portion of that time had Malaysians dealing with the threat of Covid-19 and a laggard economy. Worse, we had been subjected to an endless spell of a political pandemic.

Our politicians need only to turn around and look at the coffins being carried to the burial grounds and crematoriums and the people’s skimpy dinner tables to understand the hard times the dreadful virus and straggling economy had brought to the lives and livelihood of the rakyat.

Tomorrow it will be D-Day for Malacca and not surprisingly but most unfortunately, the politicians appear none the wiser.

To political onlookers, an in-house squabble seems a frivolous excuse for the whole assembly to be disbanded and new polls held, which Elections Commission (EC) chairperson Abdul Ghani Salleh projected ...