The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah delivering a speech to MPs during the opening ceremony of the third session of the 14th Parliament. — Jabatan Penerangan Malaysia
THE last two years have taught me a great deal about some certainties in our lives. One of them is we as individuals do not have much control over the political and economic outcomes in the nation or the world. We only have that one vote in our hands that we use in a democracy thinking that we can make a difference. Unfortunately, these days, this is also thrown out of the windows by the very people we entrust our votes with.
As the power equation seems to be changing at the whims and fancy of the very politicians we trusted, intelligent young Malaysians are now asking if there is any worth in that precious one vote that we think can change the nation’s fate. Unfortunately, as much as we think that vote is a powerful tool, today it does not even have the legal tender given to a printed RM1 by the central bank.
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