Malaysia Votes

So the Malaysian general elections will be held on 8 March. If recent events are anything to go by, the current administration is a very unpopular one, and rightly so. It is incompetent, lazy, corrupt and has no idea how to take the country forward. It ought to do badly in the elections. The opposition and reform minded sections of the community hopes to take away the 2/3 majority the ruling coalition has held since independence. However, the incumbency and corrupt tendencies also mean it is well placed to ensure retention of 2/3 majority. It can, as it has done in previous elections, monopolise all media space be it electronic or print. It can deploy irregular voters (phantom and army votes). It can blatantly disregard election laws on campaigning and for polling day. If in spite of these advantages it loses its 2/3 majority, the sense of anger and frustration seething within the electorate must have been immense.
It will lose the Indian votes by the truckloads. It will also lose votes from the Christian community but this is insignificant. It will lose votes large swathes of Chinese votes. The critical questions are what is the extent of Chinese votes which would be lost and whether the Malays are also sufficiently disillusioned or would they remain happy to vote the BN in to retain and protect their privileged positions? It would certainly be a very interesting election.