What's the People Want? 人民要的是什么？

The by-election in Permatang Pasir ended up with PAS winning the seat with the majority of 4000+ votes. This was the 8th by-election after 8th March 2008 general election. Barisan National, who is the rulling party had lost seven out of eight by-election.

What conclusion can we have by looking at this result?

From my personal point of view, Barisan National made the many Malaysian lost confident and disapointed. Malaysian suffering from the unsecured situation as robberies and criminal cases had reached a emergency level. Other than that, many political issues, such as PKFZ cases, MACC cases etc also let people feel the current government seem not able to overcome these problems. People start looking for alternative option, and supporting Pakatan Rakyat because they hope they can do better, but not in deed agree with their concept of governing a country.

Actually Barisan National is not bad, the leaders from the basic level had always try their best to help the people. People appreciated that, but they might not satisfied with the big issues at the country level.

What people need now? I think the answer can be very easy. Just a stable, clean, fair and prosperity country. I do hope that our new Prime Minister can listen to the people needs and come out with more beneficial policy. I think within 3 years, while people can see the changes, it might cure the worse situation that Barisan National faced now.

今天在柏马当巴溪的补选由回教党以4000多张的多数票胜出。这是自308以来第八场补选。而国阵，身为执政党，在8场补选中输掉了7场。

从这个情况，我们能够得到什么结论？

从我个人的观点来看，国阵让许多马来西亚人失望且失去了信心。人民在抢劫及罪案到达了紧急状况中受苦。除此之外，许多政治课题，例如巴生港口自由贸易区案子，反贪污局赵明福案子等让人民觉得国阵政府没有办法解决。人民开始寻找替代选择，支持民联，因为他们希望他们能做得更好。但是他们并非认同民联的政治理念。

其实国阵不是那么的糟糕，一些基层领袖也竭尽所能来帮助人们。大家对他们很是感激，但是却可能对一些国家级的大课题表示不满。

人民要的是什么？我觉得答案很简单，只是一个稳定，廉洁，公平和繁荣的国家。我希望我国的新首相可以聆听人民的需要而做出惠民的措施。我想不用3年，当人民看到了改变，就能够挽救国阵现在面对的劣势了。