Nobody is denying that sizable Chinese population also votes for BN.

In the past 20 years, it was only Kelantan & Trengganu (Malay states) that have fallen to non BN hands…

I wrote that PAS was registered in 1955 to be eligible to contest in the election. The party had its origins in Hizbul Muslimin in 1948.

You can read Syed Akbar Ali @ http://syedsoutsidethebox.blogspot.com/2013/02/pas-hillybillies-versus-new-village-pro.html

If they had been interested to apply at anytime prior to Merdeka, we would not have gotten the in-bulk 823,000 applications processed in 1958 as the stream of applicants would have steadily been applying each year instead of “at the last minute” when the crunch came in 1957 and they were forced to make a choice.

As to whether they would have passed the processing under “normal” circumstances, as compared to the special circumstances of Merdeka 1957 (the 823,000 approved in 1958), would be the terms of the RCI mooted by Dr M.

You may conjecture that they would have been able pass, I may conjecture that they wouldn’t but we’re both speculating. Some kind of formal inquiry can better determine.

Nope. even in 1999 when UMNO was considerably weaken due to anwar’s sacking, UMNO still manages to get the lion share of malay votes.

It still managed to win in Malay majority areas comfortably. Here I even disagree with Dr mahathir that Chinese votes saves BN. even at that time, approximately half of Chinese votes still went to DAP.

No doubt BN’s chinese votes is considerable then. Not because they love Dr mahathir. rather, they may not want to experience what Indonesian chinese faced after the downfall of Suharto.

Mahathir’s antics? Such as?

Ibrahim ali does not represent UMNO. Why he is mocked when Suqiu and Dong Zong are considered as more racist from Malay viewpoint.

Is it wrong for any Malay leader to speak about Malay interests. which part of muhyiddin’s statement that show he is racist? That he said he is Malay first. What is wrong about that. Since when Malays think Kit siang as Malaysian first, Chinese second? In fact malays believe that Kit siang is anti malay first.

Which part of utusan that is racist. i read utusan everyday. and i vouch that it is not racist.

The bottom line is that if UMNO (meaning Malays) are racist, Kit Siang and entire family would have been dead by now. And do tell me what UMNO can do to the Chinese at its strongest time.

(a) la telah diperanakkan dan telah tinggal dalam mana-mana negeri-negeri dalam Persekutuan selama 8 daripada 12 tahun terdahulu daripada permintaannya”

Most Chinese & Indians in Malaya by 1955 would already have been born on Malayan soil. Their parents too. Those from the 1st Gen would get it if they have a sufficient understanding of English OR Malay, and a good record.

When Malayan Union was being proposed, despite being an equal number the Indians & Chinese did not press forward to support it. If they weren’t interested in citizenship, they wouldn’t have applied or even accepted it first place.

In contrast if 80-90% of the minority votes are to go to the candidates from the minority faction, it just show how smart the minority is; and only the liberal majority will allow that to happen.

(2) For non-Penangite and Malaccan Chinese, the citizenship terms are here. How many would have qualified?

(3) And did you know that in the 1940s the Chinese here were more interested in China events (WWII) than they were in local developments?

(4) The Malayan Union, which the Malays opposed, was good for the Chinese. So logically if the Chinese were interested in Malayan citizenship, they should have backed the MU to the hilt so that the easy terms stayed instead of allowing the Malay 1946 protests to succeed and thus having MU replaced with the more stringent citizenship requirements of the 1948 Persekutuan Tanah Melayu agreement.