From Vancouver to Cape Town, Manipal, India to Perth, overseas Malaysians gathered this last weekend as part of the Bersih 3.0 movement to call for

clean elections in Southeast Asian country.

In Malay, ‘bersih’ means clean, or sweep.

Elections in Malaysia have traditionally been marred by allegations of corruption and tampering. The Bersih movement seeks to give the country an electoral system that delivers a fundamental democratic right to its citizens – an electoral process that delivers fair and free general elections According to the organisers of the movement, such a system has never existed in Malaysia.

Organisers of the movement are also seeking the right for 400,000 Malaysians living overseas to vote in general elections from their residential countries.

They form 5% of the electorate.

Currently there is no overseas voting in Malaysia’s elections.

To find out more about the campaign for overseas voting rights for all Malaysians, visit www.MyOverseasVote.org.

To learn more about the Bersih movement, go to www.globalbersih.org.