Of course it is too tough for BN to reinvent itself.
The March 8 general election one year ago was the watershed for Malaysia politics as Malaysians used their votes to express their dissatisfaction against the Barisan Nasional in their eagerness for change.
For the first time, BN lost its two-third majority in Parliament and five states had fallen into the opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat’s hand, resulting in the appearance of a two-coalition system.
When you have all the expired politicians and other warlords occupying the seats, their chances to reform is as good as over. After all, you can’t teach old dogs new tricks. They will reject whatever that is good as long they view it as a threat to their position. There was a huge political tsunami last year but the Perak coup further fuels a new type of nationalism in Malaysia. Some newspaper says the perakians are happy with the new state government but the real sentiment in that silver state itself speaks different volume from what was reported.
