On Sunday the 5th of May 2013, General Election day, a Facebook fanpage was opened. The title of that fanpage was 100,000 People Request Najib Tun Razak Resignation. That fanpage after three days now has a membership of 241,000 people and fast growing. I expect this fanpage to hit 1 million by Friday and keep growing.

Najib Resign Fanpage

To UMNO and Barisan Nasional members reading this article, together with special officers to the Prime Minister. A Facebook Fanpage LIKE is not like YOUTUBE. Where on YOUTUBE, you can click LIKE one every day. Means the same person can LIKE a video once every day. On a Facebook fanpage every LIKE comes from ONE profile. Which means 241,000 facebook profiles have LIKED this page. Lets say 10% are fake profiles, you still have 220,000 Malaysians that have liked this page.

Lets wait and see on Friday if they hit 1,000,000.

Associate Professor Lily Zubaidah Rahim, from the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, is an affiliate of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre.

Malaysia's thirteenth election, held last Sunday, was fiercely contested and controversial. The 80% voter turnout, the highest in the country's history, is indicative of the public perception of the high stakes.

The PR (Pakatan Rakyat) opposition coalition recognised that if regime change was to occur under a skewed electoral system, it had to win by a sizeable margin. In Malaysia's electoral authoritarian regime, the electoral playing field is anything but level. With the benefit of state resources, gerrymandering and vote-buying, the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition managed to win a majority of federal parliamentary seats but failed to win the popular vote....

For the first time since 1957, the outcome of the national elections was not a foregone conclusion in Malaysia. Yesterday’s electoral win for Prime Minister Najib Razak and his ruling coalition (National Front/BN) was confirmation that the majority of Malaysians fear change and prefer the devil that they know.

For a country that is increasingly out of step with the dynamic political change that has recently swept a number of countries in Asia (such as Myanmar and Thailand), the BN’s win is an indication that the ancient regime can remain in power, even though it clearly does not represent the aspirations of the country’s minorities and youth.

It also raises question about how genuinely clean this election could have been, particularly given the BN’s performance in 2008, when it barely clung to power....

For Malaysians who are disappointed with the results of the just-concluded general election, here's an advice from the Election Commission: Don't tell the whole world about it.

EC deputy chairman Wan Ahmad Wan Omar (pic) argued that candidates are given 21 days to file their protest at the High Court over the election process once results are gazetted.

"The people have the right to challenge the general election results, but through legal channels. Do not go to the streets to demonstrate and tell the whole world that they reject the general election," he said....