How to buy a government

Have you ever thought of buying a government? Is it even possible?

Apparently it is. I was having a small talk with a Ukrainian friend the other day when our topic shifted to politics. I was telling him the amusing stories of our country politics, how the Malaysian are getting frustrated at our inefficient and corrupt politician. That was when he told me about his country even more amazing story.

During the 2004 election the ruling party lost the election to the opposition. However the leader of the previously ruling party did not want to let go. So what they did was they offer 300 million dollar to the party who won the election. Both then party would then combined into one, and the previous leader would take over the leadership of the new party and thus lead the government!

Amazing isn't it? I could not believe what he was telling, this cannot be true. But he said that thats what happened. It even leads to a revolution in the country called the orange revolution. I checked in Wikipedia but it was a different story from what he told me. So till today i still have doubt over his version of the story.

He also told me that corruptions is very common back in Ukraine. This i think i would believe him. Why? Its because when i was driving him around on the potholes laden roads, he mentioned to me that Malaysia has excellent roads. And that, says a lot.

*I hope BN is not reading this. Else if they lost in the coming election, DAP or PAS or PKR might be a new member of the BN family. Maybe i should copyright this idea, make it my own intellectual property, hahaha.....