According to Kit… 75 seats are what the opposition political parties need for a beginning of new democracy with an effective check-and-balance.
I think they would need 80 instead… BN might (most likely will) try to bribe an MP or two to switch side if the situation is critical. Make it 80 and they would be safe.
[Update March 12, 2008] 82 is the lucky number.
Newspaper headlines today are dominated with the “news” of BN government giving out money, gifts and donations to various groups and organisations.
With election drawing near, doesn’t this gimmick sound like “Money Politics” to you? The great things about this stuff are that the Election Commission is closing one eye with it, and some main media is glorifying the money-giving act.
