A rally to express dissatisfaction over alleged irregularities in the 13th general election was held on June 15 in the city centre as part of the Black 505 gathering which began three days after may 5 polls.
Some of the political leaders and strategist believe the rallies, organised at various places, was an attempt to influenced the mind of Malaysian youths who would reach the voting age of 21 in the coming years.
They feel that youths would be indoctrinate to support the opposition pact "to correct" the alleged imbalances and unfair electoral system in the country because the majority of those who attend these rallies are youngster.
According to Ti, the opposition parties especially the DAP had succesfully convinced many Chinese voters to rejects the MCA and Barisan Nasional in the recently-concluded election and they would continue to do so until GE-14.
It is actually a good exposure to those young people out there to judge not only from one side but consider to look for both sides. Since the year of 2008 or more precisely from GE-12, the opposition has taken advantage on the internet. Now, the opposition pact also took advantage of the new social media instruments to gain support. as can be seen, they are using Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts to help them spread messages to their supporters.
Young people usually surfing internet 24/7 days and will engaged and viewed lots of information through images, YouTube videos and status comments on Facebook, Twitter or messages on mobile applications like WhatsApp.
Thus, these young people are constantly being influenced and stirred emotionally toward political party sentiments. This is what happening with the Black 505 rallies. People share images, videos and speeches over the network and it can influenced to young people.
According to political analyst Dr Sivamurugan Pandian, who is with Universiti Sains Malaysia said such a strategy worked well due to the low political literacy among the youths because DAP actually success adopted a strategy by highlighting the need of the people to fight for their rights.
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