#faito

Pakatan Harapan - which roughly translates to Coalition of Hope, consisting of approximately 4 different opposition parties united to bring down the ruling government that is Barisan Nasional, has done the impossible and cost Barisan Nasional the ruling seat in Parliament and the government of Malaysia. Our (now former) Prime Minister is the first Prime Minister in the history of this country that didn’t step down willingly and instead has been unseated by a landslide loss to the opposition.

Pakatan Harapan which is lead by our former Prime Minister, 92 year old Tun Dr. Mahathir - who once sat at the head of the Barisan Nasional party and will now become the first ever PM in this country to hold this position two times in his life time. One of the parties that makes up Pakatan is Parti Keadilan, which is lead by Tun Mahathir’s former Deputy Prime Mister, Anwar Ibrahim for a time during his run, who then became his biggest foe for years over a major drama that ended with him incarcerated. He’s still in jail and his wife is running the party in his stead.

Can you imagine? Two people on opposite sides, arguably each other’s biggest nemesis, putting aside their grievances to start a coalition party to topple the evil government? This is honestly like some dystopian novel shit, you can’t even make this up.

That isn’t even the end of it. Anwar’s wife, Wan Azizah, who I said is head of Parti Keadilan in his stead and as such, deputy of Pakatan Harapan, is also looking to become the very first woman Deputy Prime Minister this country has ever seen.

I never thought I’d be around to witness the downfall of Barisan Nasional. Malaysia always prides itself on being a democratic country, but the government’s understanding of democratic is: ‘democratic, as long as it’s Barisan.’ And to see them lose is such a spectacular fashion after years of fucking up the country and treating their citizens like crap, it’s honestly giving me chills. This is an event of historical proportions and I’m so very proud to have been just one small part of that.

I’m also very very proud in that the fact that my state and parliament seat that I voted for was won by Pakatan.