A breakthrough for Malaysia in Covid-19 pandemic in the last six days with triple-digit daily cases and single-digit daily deaths in Malaysia which should be a prelude to a wide-ranging study why Malaysia, indexed as among the top 20 countries in the world in a global study on health in 2019, became one the worst performers in the Covid-19 pandemic

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Malaysia achieved a breakthrough in the Covid-19 pandemic, recording triple-digit daily Covid-19 cases and single-digit daily Covid-19 deaths for six consecutive days, bringing Malaysia back to more than two years ago before Malaysia broke the daily barrier for triple-digit Covid-19 cases and single-digit Covid-19 deaths, reaching five-digit daily new Covid-19 cases and triple-digit daily Covid-19 deaths terminating the “backdoor” premiership of Muhyiddin Yassin.

The catastrophic handling of the Covid-19 pandemic by the Muhyiddin government and Muhyiddin’s fear of a vote of confidence in Parliament were major causes for the collapse of the Muhyiddin’s “backdoor” government.

Parliament was illegally and unconstitutionally suspended for six months for Muhyiddin to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, but the Muhyiddin Government’s handling was a catastrophic failure as illustrated by the following:

When Emergency was declared in January 2021 to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, Malaysia was ranked No.69 among nations with the most cumulative total of daily cases, but when Emergency was ended six months later we were ranked No. 23.

When Emergency was declared in January 2021, Malaysia was ranked No. 16 the Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking out of 53 countries with economies of more than US$200 billion and when Emergency was ended six months later, Malaysia fell to the very bottom of ranking of the 53 nations — a fall of 37 places.

When Emergency was declared, Malaysia had 135,992 Covid-19 cases and 551 Covid-19 deaths. Six months later, at the end of the emergency, we had 1,113,272 Covid-19 cases and 9,024 Covid-19 deaths — some five times the number of Covid-19 cases and 16 times the Covid-19 deaths after the emergency.

I therefore cannot understand Muhyiddin’s recent claim during the 15th General Election campaign that under his premiership, the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia was on the verge of becoming endemic and that lives were saved, where “only a few died” during the pandemic.

What is shocking is not that Muhyiddin lied about the Covid-19 pandemic, but that huge numbers of Malaysians believed Muhyiddin as if 9,000 deaths is a small number.

The breakthrough in the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia is the occasion for the new Health Minister to carry out a wide-ranging inquiry why Malaysia had been such a poor performer in the pandemic, so that Malaysia can be better prepared for future pandemics.

The wide-ranging study on the health situation in Malaysia should also probe the shocking revelation by the former University of Malaya’s Dean of Medicine, Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman that at least 30 of the best medical graduates from Universiti Malaya leave Malaysia for greener pastures because of unresolved healthcare worker issues at home.

The Government should draw up a programme to attract the best medical and other talents from other countries to Malaysia, and not the way round.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Friday, 23rd December 2022)

Malaysia mencatatkan kejayaan dengan kes harian dan kematian akibat Covid-19 dalam julat tiga angka dan satu angka masing-masing, yang patut menjadi permulaan untuk kajian mengapa Malaysia mencatatkan prestasi yang buruk dalam berhadapan dengan pandemik Covid-19

Malaysia telah mencatatkan satu kejayaan dalam pandemik Covid-19, kita mencatatkan kes harian dalam julat tiga angka dan kematian akibat Covid-19 dalam julat satu angka untuk enam hari yang lepas, membawa negara kita ke era seperti dua tahun lepas ketika mana kita mula mencatatkan kes dalam julat tiga angka, yang kemudiannya melarat sehingga ke tahap dengan kes harian dalam julat lima angka dan kematian dalam julat tiga angka sehari ketika berakhirnya kerajaan Muhyiddin Yassin.

Pengendalian pandemik Covid-19 yang kucar kacir dan ketakutan Muhyiddin untuk berhadapan dengan undi percaya di Parlimen telah menjadi penyebab utama kejatuhan kerajaan “pintu belakang” Muhyiddin.

Parlimen telah digantung secara tidak selama enam bulan untuk memberi ruang kepada Muhyiddin untuk mengendalikan pandemik Covid-19, tetapi pengurusan pandemik Covid-19 oleh kerajaan Muhyiddin merupakan satu bencana yang dapat dilihat dari contoh-contoh berikut:

Semasa darurat diisytiharkan pada bulan Januari 2021 untuk menguruskan wabak Covid-19, Malaysia berada di tempat ke-69 dari segi jumlah kes terkumpul, tetapi enam bulan kemudian selepas darurat berakhir, kita berada di tempat ke-23.

Semasa darurat bermula pada bulan Januari 2021, kita berada di tempat ke-16 dari 53 negara dengan ekonomi yang bersaiz lebih besar dari AS$200 billion dalam Indeks Ketahanan Covid yang diterbitkan Bloomberg, enam bulan kemudian, Malaysia jatuh 37 anak tangga ke tempat terakhir.

Semasa darurat diisytiharkan, Malaysia mencatatkan 135,992 kes terkumpul dan 551 kematian akibat Covid-19. Enam bulan kemudian kita mencatatkan 1,113,272 kes dengan 9,024 kematian — lebih lima kali ganda lebih banyak kes dan 16 kali ganda lebih banyak kematian selepas darurat diisytiharkan.

Oleh itu saya tidak boleh memahami dakwaan Muhyiddin baru-baru ini yang kononnya di bawah pimpinannya, pandemik Covid-19 di Malaysia hampir mencapai tahap endemik dan nyawa telah diselamatkan, kononnya “hanya beberapa orang sahaja yang terkorban”.

Apa yang mengejutkan bukanlah hakikat di mana Muhyiddin menipu mengenai Covid-19, tetapi sejumlah besar rakyat Malaysia yang kepada Muhyiddin, kerana 9,000 kematian bukanlah satu angka yang kecil.

Kejayaan pengurusan bencana Covid-19 ini adalah satu peristiwa yang perlu dimanfaatkan oleh Menteri Kesihatan baharu untuk menjalankan penyiasatan meluas mengapa negara kita mencatatkan prestasi yang sebegitu buruk supaya Malaysia dapat menjadi lebih bersedia untuk berhadapan dengan pandemik-pandemik lain di masa hadapan.

Kajian meluas ini perlu juga merangkumi pendedahan mengejut dari bekas Dekan Fakulti Perubatan Universiti Malaya, Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman, yang mengatakan sekurang-kurangnya 30 orang graduan perubatan terbaik Universiti Malaya meninggalkan Malaysia setiap tahun kerana masalah petugas kesihatan yang tidak diselesaikan dalam negara kita.

Kerajaan perlu merangka program untuk menarik bakat perubatan dan bakat-bakat lain yang terbaik untuk ke Malaysia dan bukannya sebaliknya.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Jumaat, 23 Disember 2022)

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Tanjong constituency had been a bastion of the Malaysian Dream for a free, just, democratic, and prosperous Malaysia for over three decades

Firstly, let me congratulate the voters of Tanjong for being the bastion of the Malaysian Dream for a free, just, democratic, and prosperous Malaysia for over three decades since 1986 when I first became Member of Parliament for Tanjong.

Secondly, I congratulate Penang DAP for excellent results in the 15th General Election where in four parliamentary constituencies, the opposing candidates to the DAP lost all lost their deposits.

The first is in Tanjong where Lim Hui Ying won with 83.8% of the voter turnout — and the two opposing candidates lost their deposits, one with 8.5% and the other with 6.6% of the votes.

The second is Bagan, where Lim Guan Eng won with 81.2% of the voter turnout — with the three opposing candidates lost their deposits, with 8.9%, 7.8%, and 1.9% of the votes respectively.

The third is Bukit Gelugor where Ramkarpal Singh Karpal Singh won with 82.7% of the voter turnout with the two opposing candidates lost their deposits, with 9.4% and 7.4% of the votes respectively.

The fourth is Bukit Bendera where Syerleena Abdul Rashid won with 79% of the voter turnout with the four opposing candidates lost their deposits, with 10.8%, 8.7%, 1.1%, and 0.5% of the votes respectively.

There are altogether 12 parliamentary seats won by the DAP in the 15GE where all the opposing candidates to DAP lost their deposits.

Thirdly, I want to emphasise that the Malaysian Dream is not for one general election or one generation only, but for the building of a first-rate, world-class, democratic, prosperous, plural Malaysian nation, and not for Malaysia to end up as a failed, divided or kleptocratic state.

The year 2022 is ending with great hopes that with Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister, Malaysians can stop the national decline in the last six decades, turn the country around and make Malaysia great again.

In fact, this was the message I sent to Anwar Ibrahim on Nov. 24, 2022 when the Yang di Pertuan Agong appointed him as the Prime Minister.

Fourthly, we want a Federal Government which puts the interests of the people above everything else, and which is flexible and not rigid, prepared to acknowledge and correct its mistakes.

I welcome the statement earlier today by the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reforms), Ramkarpal Singh that the government has agreed to look into certain provisions in the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act (Sosma) 2012 and will engage with the relevant stakeholders.

I applaud the flexible approach of the Home Minister, Saifuddin Nasution Ismail who had earlier indicated that he had no intention of reviewing SOSMA.

Ramkarpal said he met with Saifuddin and discussed Sosma and the need for it to be further studied to address various aspects which have drawn considerable criticism, such as the provision which limits the granting of bail.

Saifuddin’s agreement with Ramkarpal’s proposal to commence the necessary engagement with all stakeholders should be an example for all Ministers in the Anwar Cabinet.

Fifthly, Malaysians must learn from the lessons of the 15GE where the country was flooded with the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion. If this phenomenon is not checked, it will end with Malaysia as a divided, failed, and kleptocratic state.

This is why I fully supported the speech by Perak Sultan Nazrin Shah not to tolerate attempts to incite racial and religious hatred which would provoke hostilities in Perak.

I had urged that a zero tolerance for incitement of racial and religious fear and hatred in plural Malaysia should be the national policy of the country.

This zero tolerance for the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion must be evident from the start of the Anwar premiership with firm action taken against those who exploit racial and religious differences in plural Malaysia.

In my 57 years of political life, I have travelled to and visited more parts of Malaysia than an average Malaysian, and I can say with conviction that there is no anti-Malay, anti-Chinese, anti-Indian, anti-Kadazan, anti-Dayak or anti-Muslim, anti-Buddhist, anti-Hindu or anti-Christianity sentiments on the ground, but certain political personalities and political parties continue to poison the minds of the people that the Malays and Islam are under threat. Where does the threat to Malays and Islam come from?

Unfortunately, this toxic, extremist and divisive politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion have not ended with the 15th General Election.

In fact, a prominent political leader had just trotted out such toxic, extremist, and divisive politics of lies, fear, hate, race and religion claiming that in the 15GE, non-Muslims voters turned out in droves at near 98 per cent compared to a mere 60 per cent turnout of Muslims “even though some gave an excuse they were performing the haj or umrah (major and minor pilgrimages to Mecca), while some waited for payment (to vote) and so on”.

If such toxic, extremist and divisive politics of lies, fear, hate, race and religion is allowed free play, plural Malaysia will be destroyed.

Freedom of expression does not mean freedom to tell lies and incite racial and religious fear and hatred.

We must defend responsible freedom of expression but condemn irresponsible toxic, extremist, and divisive politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion.

(Speech by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang at the DAP Tanjong thanksgiving dinner at Red Rock Hotel, Penang on Friday, 23rd December 2022)

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Now its Merry Christmas all round although it could have been a very grim Christmas if political developments had taken a different turn and Anwar had not become the 10th Prime Minister

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Now its Merry Christmas all round although it could have been a very grim Christmas if political developments had taken a different turn and Anwar Ibrahim had not become the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Malaysia is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-cultural nation and let the 2022 Christmas be the first festivity where Malaysians again celebrate their unity in diversity by rejoicing in the festivities of all ethnic and religious groups — be it Thaipusam, Chinese New Year, Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Wesak Day, Hari Gawai, Hari Kaamatan, Hari Raya Haji, Deepavali, or Christmas.

In his Christmas Message, the Prime Minister said:

“May this year’s Christmas celebration be more festive and bring peace, harmony, prosperity, and unity to the distinguished country of Malaysia and its justice-loving people.”

Let all festivities of all ethnic and religious groups in Malaysia bring peace, harmony, prosperity, and unity to Malaysia.

I fully support the assurance given by the Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim that he was ready to work with all parties, including all opposition-led states.

Anwar, who visited Kelantan recently because of the floods disaster, must lead an inclusive government to be worth the name of Perpaduan Government where no voter or state should be penalised for voting the candidate or party of their choice in the 15GE.

The Federal government must be a Federal Government of all states and all Malaysians regardless of state.

However, the Anwar Government should have a zero tolerance for incitement of racial and religious fear and hatred in plural Malaysia as it could destroy plural Malaysia.

It is most unfortunate that after Perak Sultan Nazrin Shah spoke of zero tolerance to incitement of racial and religious hatred, a leader of a political party again returned to the nefarious task to incite racial and religious hatred with a racist, extremist, and false narrative by complaining about the alleged poor turnout by Muslim voters in the 15GE.

This leader falsely claimed that non-Muslims turned out in droves from near and far to “support DAP”, with a turnout by non-Muslims of 98 percent compared to a mere 60 percent turnout of Muslims.

Previously, this political leader had opposed elected local council elections on the ground that it would only benefit the Chinese community, which was why the DAP was a strong proponent of local council elections.

His accusation that the DAP took into account only the Chinese voters and would disregard the others races and parties who are the pulse and nerve of multi-racial and multi-religious cities was not only false and baseless, but was refuted by the two Population and Housing Census of Malaysia 2020 and 2010.

According to the Population and housing Census of Malaysia 2020, three-quarters of Malaysians live in urban settings, with most urban-dwellers being of bumiputera ethnicity.

Some 14.1 million — or 62.6 percent — of urbanites are bumiputera, followed by ethnic Chinese at 6.4 million or 28.6 percent, ethnic Indians (1.8 million or 8.1 percent), and other ethnicities (0.2 million or 0.7 percent).

The bumiputera proportion has also grown compared to the last census in 2010, when 58.9 percent of urban dwellers are bumiputera.

This is somewhat reflective of national demographics, and a stark contrast to the demographics of urban areas in the 1970s when only about a third of Malaysians were urbanites.

I reiterate my call on to the Anwar government to put in place a policy to stamp out incitement of racial and religious fear and hatred in Malaysia and to have a zero tolerance to the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race and religion before plural Malaysia is destroyed.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Sunday, December 25, 2022)

Sekarang kita semua dapat meraikan Hari Krismas walaupun hakikat hari ini mungkin akan menjadi sangat berbeza sekiranya perkembangan politik sebelum ini bergerak ke arah lain dan Anwar tidak menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-10

Sekarang kita semua dapat meraikan Hari Krismas walaupun hakikat hari ini mungkin akan menjadi sangat berbeza sekiranya perkembangan politik sebelum ini bergerak ke arah lain dan Anwar Ibrahim tidak menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-10.

Malaysia adalah sebuah negara berbilang etnik, bahasa, agama, dan budaya, dan marilah kita jadikan Krismas 2022 sebagai sambutan pertama di mana rakyat Malaysia sekali lagi meraikan perpaduan dan kepelbagaian kita dengan menyambut sambutan keraian semua kumpulan etnik dan agama – baik Thaipusam, Tahun Baru Cina, Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Hari Wesak, Hari Gawai, Hari Kaamatan, Hari Raya Haji, Deepavali, atau Krismas.

Dalam perutusan Krismasnya, Perdana Menteri telah mengatakan:

“Semoga sambutan Krismas pada tahun ini lebih meriah dan dapat membawa keamanan, keharmonian, kemakmuran serta perpaduan kepada negara Malaysia yang terbilang dan rakyatnya yang cintakan keadilan.”

Jadikan sambutan semua kumpulan etnik dan agama di Malaysia suatu acara yang membawa keamanan, keharmonian, kemakmuran, dan perpaduan di Malaysia.

Saya menyokong jaminan yang diberikan oleh Perdana Menteri, Anwar Ibrahim, yang mengatakan dia bersedia untuk bekerjasama dengan semua pihak termasuklah negeri-negeri yang dipimpin parti pembangkang.

Anwar, yang baru-baru ini melawat Kelantan kerana bencana banjir, perlu memimpin sebuah kerajaan yang inklusif yang benar-benar mencerminkan nama Kerajaan Perpaduan, di mana tidak ada mana-mana pengundi atau negeri dihukum kerana memilih calon atau parti pilihan mereka dalam PRU15.

Kerajaan Persekutuan perlu menjadi Kerajaan Persekutuan untuk semua negeri dan semua rakyat Malaysia.

Bagaimanapun, Kerajaan Anwar juga tidak boleh bertoleransi terhadap hasutan syak wasangka dan sifat kebencian antara kaum dan agama dalam masyarakat majmuk di Malaysia kerana perkara ini berpotensi untuk memusnahkan negara kita.

Amat malang sekali selepas Sultan Perak, Sultan Nazrin Shah bertitah mengenai sifar toleransi terhadap hasutan perasaan syak wasangka dan kebencian yang bersifat perkauman dan keagamaan di Malaysia, seorang pemimpin parti politik sekali lagi melakukan perkara buruk ini dengan mengeluarkan naratif palsu yang bersifat rasis dan melampau yang mengatakan kononnya terdapat kadar keluar mengundi yang buruk dalam kalangan pengundi orang Islam dalam PRU15.

Pemimpin ini telah mendakwa kononnya orang bukan Islam keluar mengundi secara beramai-ramai dari dekat dan jauh untuk “menyokong DAP”, dengan kadar keluar mengundi dalam kalangan orang bukan Islam pada 98 peratus berbanding dengan hanya 60 peratus dalam kalangan orang Islam.

Sebelum ini, pemimpin politik yang sama telah membantah pilihan raya kerajaan tempatan atas alasan yang kononnya demokrasi tempatan hanya akan memberikan manfaat kepada komuniti Cina, dan kononnya inilah sebab DAP menyokong pilihan raya tempatan diadakan semula.

Tuduhannya yang mengatakan DAP hanya mengambil kira pengundi Cina dan mengabaikan kepentingan kaum dan pihak-pihak lain yang merupakan denyut dan nadi bandar-bandar majmuk pelbagai kaum dan agama ini bukan sahaja salah dan tidak berasas, tetapi telah dinafikan oleh dua Bancian Populasi dan Perumahan Malaysia pada tahun 2020 dan 2010.

Menurut Bancian Populasi dan Perumahan 2020, tiga per empat dari rakyat Malaysia kini tinggal di kawasan bandar, dengan kebanyakan penduduk bandar dari kalangan golongan bumiputera.

Kira-kira 14.1 juta – atau 62.2 peratus – penduduk bandar adalah golongan bumiputera, diikuti etnik Cina pada 6.4 juta atau 28.6 peratus, etnik India (1.8 juta atau 8.1 peratus), dan lain-lain etnik (0.2 juta atau 0.7 peratus).

Kadar peratusan bumiputera juga telah bertambah berbanding dengan bancian sebelum ini pada tahun 2010, di mana 58.9 peratus penduduk bandar adalah beretnik bumiputera.

Perkara ini mencerminkan demografi negara, dan jauh berbeza dengan demografi kawasan bandar pada tahun 70-an di mana hanya kira-kira satu pertiga populasi Malaysia tinggal di bandar.

Saya ulangi semula seruan saya kepada kerajaan Anwar untuk meletakkan dasar yang sepatutnya untuk menghapuskan hasutan-hasutan syak wasangka dan kebencian antara agama dan kaum di Malaysia dan untuk mengamalkan dasar sifar toleransi terhadap politik toksik penipuan, syak wasangka, kebencian, perkauman, dan keagamaan sebelum Malaysia dimusnahkan oleh unsur-unsur yang merosakkan ini.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Ahad, 25 Disember 2022)

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Malaysia must have a programme to reduce the migration of highly skilled citizens as part of the policy to make Malaysia great again

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Last Thursday, Malaysiakini reported the former University of Malaya’s Dean of Medicine Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman as saying that Malaysia loses at least 30 of its best and brightest medical graduates from University of Malaya to Singapore, and that it costs the country almost RM1 million per student to train.

Yesterday, Sin Chew Daily reported that Singapore has a policy to “grab” talents from Malaysia’s Chinese Independent Secondary Schools, and this is equivalent to 300–400 students a year since 2015 who proceeded to Singapore to continue their higher studies and later to remain and help in the economic growth of the island republic.

Malaysia has been suffering from a severe brain drain since the 1970s, as testified by the Malaysian Diaspora all over the world numbering over a million Malaysians of all races and religions.

It is time that Malaysia should recognise highly skilled Malaysian talent especially in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) sectors as a key resource in a knowledge economy which play a critical role of national economic growth and technological innovation of Malaysia.

Malaysia must have a programme to reduce the migration of highly skilled citizens as part of the policy to make Malaysia great again, as well as to attract highly-skilled talents to Malaysia.

There should be a special unit in the Prime Minister’s Department to stem the brain drain in key sectors, which should conduct an aggressive policy to turn the five decades of “brain drain” into a “brain gain” situation.

For a start, the government should resolve the grievances and complaints of healthcare workers and terminate the problem of the contract doctors.

Malaysia does not need contract doctors as they should be absorbed into the public health and medical system.

The new Health Minister should initiate a wide-ranging inquiry why Malaysia had been such a poor performer in the Covid-19 pandemic, when a global study on health in 2010 placed Malaysia as among the top 20 countries in the world, and be the basis of a 30-year national health plan 2023–2053 apart from preparing Malaysia to be better prepared for the next global pandemic.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Monday, 26th December 2022)

Malaysia memerlukan program untuk mengurangkan migrasi rakyat berbakat sebagai sebahagian dari dasar untuk menjadikan Malaysia hebat semula

Khamis lepas, Malaysiakini melaporkan yang bekas Dekan Fakulti Perubatan Universiti Malaya, Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman, sebagai mengatakan yang Malaysia kehilangan sekurang-kurangnya 30 orang graduan perubatan terbaik dari Universiti Malaya kepada Singapura, dan negara kita menanggung kos hampir RM1 juta seorang untuk melatih mereka ini.

Semalam, Sin Chew Daily melaporkan yang Singapura mempunyai dasar untuk “merampas” bakat dari Sekolah Menengah Bebas Cina, dan perkara ini bermakna kira-kira 300–400 orang pelajar setahun sejak dari tahun 2015 telah ke Singapura untuk meneruskan pengajian mereka dan kemudiannya kekal di negara tersebut dan membantu mengembangkan ekonomi republik pulau tersebut.

Malaysia telah berhadapan dengan masalah kehilangan bakat sejak dari tahun 1970-an, seperti yang dapat dilihat dari komuniti diaspora Malaysia di seluruh dunia yang terdiri dari lebih sejuta rakyat Malaysia dari pelbagai latar belakang kaum dan agama.

Sudah tiba masanya untuk Malaysia mengiktiraf rakyat Malaysia yang berbakat, terutamanya dalam sektor sains, teknologi, kejuruteraan, dan matematik (STEM) sebagai salah satu sumber utama dalam ekonomi berasaskan pengetahuan yang memainkan peranan kritikal dalam pertumbuhan ekonomi dan inovasi teknologi di Malaysia.

Malaysia memerlukan sebuah program untuk mengurangkan kehilangan bakat dari dalam negara dan juga satu dasar untuk menarik bakat-bakat untuk ke Malaysia.

Perlu ada sebuah unit khas di Jabatan Perdana Menteri untuk mengatasi masalah ini, yang perlu merangka sebuah dasar agresif untuk mengubah situasi kita dari kehilangan bakat-bakat cemerlang kepada menjadi sebuah negara yang menarik bakat-bakat ini.

Sebagai permulaan, kerajaan patut menyelesaikan aduan-aduan petugas kesihatan dan menghentikan masalah yang dihadapi oleh doktor kontrak.

Malaysia tidak memerlukan doktor kontrak, sebaliknya mereka ini sepatutnya diserap ke dalam sistem kesihatan awam negara.

Menteri Kesihatan yang baru perlu menjalankan penyiasatan menyeluruh mengapa Malaysia telah menunjukkan prestasi yang sebegitu buruk dalam berhadapan dengan pandemik Covid-19, sedangkan suatu kajian global pada tahun 2010 meletakkan negara dalam kalangan 20 negara yang terbaik di dunia. Kajian ini hendaklah dijadikan asas kepada rancangan kesihatan 30 tahun, dari 2023 hingga 2053 untuk memastikan Malaysia sentiasa bersedia untuk berhadapan dengan pandemik global yang akan datang.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Isnin, 26 Disember 2022)

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You are very wrong Hadi, DAP represents not only the non-Malays and non-Muslims as DAP represents Malaysians — including Malays and Muslims

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A week after the vote of confidence in Parliament on Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia, more and more Malaysians are coming to the view that there is now a higher chance of Anwar lasting five years as Prime Minister.

But this has only strengthened the resolve of the naysayers who have not given up their plot to topple the Anwar Ibrahim government ala-Sheraton Move.

The first Sheraton Move political conspiracy started with the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion over the ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and the creation of fear and hate based on falsehoods, accusing the DAP of being behind the plot to ratify ICERD as the opening of an anti-Malay and anti-Islam attack by the DAP.

Hadi now knows that the ICERD issue in 2018 had nothing to do with the DAP, as DAP Ministers and leaders were as surprised as anyone by the then Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly in

September 2018 to ratify the core UN human rights covenants.

But Hadi has done nothing in the past four years to apologise to the DAP or to admit his mistakes in hurling lies and falsehoods against the DAP with regard to the ICERD ratification issue in 2018.

Now Hadi is back to his old tricks again.

His Open Letter last week claiming that the Malay voter turnout rate was lower compared to other races in the 15th General Election (GE15) is not only “baseless”, but the first step to bring down the Anwar government ala-Sheraton Move.

Political analyst Bridget Welsh of the University of Nottingham Malaysia said Malays accounted for the highest percentage of voters, according to data she collected.

She said the lower voter turnout rate of the Chinese and other non-Malay ethnic groups refutes Hadi’s claim that 98 per cent of non-Muslims, including those residing abroad, voted in GE15 to “support DAP” while only 60 per cent of Muslims voted. Hadi warned that those who did not vote might have sinned “as they had disobeyed God’s command as stated by the Prophet Muhammad”.

Welsh said Hadi’s claims repeated his narrative about Malays as being politically threatened, adding that the claims were unsubstantiated.

Welsh cited her analysis which showed that the turnout rate of Malay voters at GE15 was 79 per cent, followed by Indian voters (78 per cent), Chinese voters (69 per cent) and other races (59 per cent).

She said that although Malay turnout was higher than that of other races, not all supported Perikatan Nasional (PN), of which Pas is a component. She said out of Malays who did vote, only 54 per cent supported PN.

Hadi is again very wrong. DAP represents not only the non-Malays and non-Muslims, DAP represents Malaysians — including Malays and Muslims

The 2010 and 2020 Population and Housing Census debunked Hadi’s toxic politics of lies and falsehoods to engender fear and hate in Malaysia’s plural society.

According to the Population and Housing Census of Malaysia 2020, three-quarters of Malaysians live in urban settings, with most urban-dwellers being of bumiputera ethnicity.

Some 14.1 million — or 62.6 percent — of urbanites are bumiputera, followed by ethnic Chinese at 6.4 million or 28.6 percent, ethnic Indians (1.8 million or 8.1 percent), and other ethnicities (0.2 million or 0.7 percent).

The bumiputera proportion has grown compared to the last census in 2010, when 58.9 percent of urban dwellers were bumiputera, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia.

Data from the Election Commission revealed that a total of 21,173,638 Malaysians voted in GE15 compared with 14,940,624 in GE14.

Furthermore, it will not be possible for DAP to win 12 parliamentary seats with all the other contending candidates losing their deposits if the winning DAP candidate had not won the vote of all racial groups in the constituency.

The 12 parliamentary seats where all the contending candidates to the DAP candidate lost their deposits in the 15th General Election are Tanjong, Bagan, Bukit Gelugor, Bukit Bendera, Ipoh Barat, Batu Gajah, Segambut, Kepong, Cheras, Bukit Bintang and Seputeh.

Furthermore, DAP won 15 of the 20 constituencies with the largest majorities, led by DAP national deputy chairman, Gobind Singh Deo, who won the Damansara parliamentary seat with a gigantic majority of 124, 619 votes.

The other 19 constituencies with huge majorities from 43,882-vote majorities upwards were: Subang, Klang, Kota Raja, Bangi, Seputeh, Bukit Gelugor, Kepong, Iskandar Puteri, Segambut, Puchong, Bukit Mertajam, Ipoh Barat, Cheras, Batu Gajah, Bagan, Pandan, Kota Melaka, Tanah Merah, and Ipoh Timur.

It is impossible for the DAP to win so many parliamentary constituencies with such huge majorities without the support of voters from all ethnic groups.

The DAP, which has three Malay MPs in Parliament, will continue to be a party of Malaysians, whether Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Dayaks or Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs.

I do not expect Hadi to apologise for his latest toxic politics of lies, hate, fear, race, and religion but to continue to conjure new lies and falsehoods to generate fear and hate in Malaysia.

Malaysia must have freedom of expression based on facts and opinions but we must guard against the toxic and divisive politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion which can destroy multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural Malaysia.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Tuesday, 27th December 2022)

Hadi, anda sangat tersangat salah, DAP bukan sahaja mewakili suara orang bukan Melayu dan orang bukan Islam, tetapi DAP mewakili rakyat Malaysia — termasuklah orang Melayu dan orang Islam

Seminggu selepas undi percaya terhadap Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri ke-10 di Parlimen, semakin ramai rakyat Malaysia kini berpendapat yang Anwar mempunyai peluang yang lebih tinggi untuk kekal sebagai Perdana Menteri selama lima tahun.

Tetapi, perkara ini juga telah meningkatkan lagi usaha pihak yang masih belum berputus asa untuk menumbangkan kerajaan Anwar Ibrahim seperti dalam Langkah Sheraton sebelum ini.

Konspirasi politik Langkah Sheraton yang pertama bermula dengan politik toksik penipuan, syak wasangka, kebencian, perkauman, dan keagamaan yang bersangkut paut dengan ratifikasi Konvensyen Antarabangsa Penghapusan Semua Bentuk Diskriminasi Perkauman (ICERD) dan juga dengan penciptaan kebencian dan syak wasangka melalui fitnah, di mana mereka menuduh DAP sebagai berada di sebalik rancangan untuk meratifikasi ICERD sebagai pembukaan serangan anti Melayu dan Islam oleh DAP.

Hadi kini tahu yang isu ICERD pada tahun 2018 ini tidak mempunyai apa-apa kaitan dengan DAP, memandangkan para Menteri dan pemimpin DAP sendiri terkejut seperti mana orang lain juga, dengan pengumuman Perdana Menteri ketika itu, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, dalam ucapannya di Perhimpunan Agung Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu pada bulan September 2018 mengenai ratifikasi perjanjian utama hak asasi manusia PBB.

Tetapi Hadi tidak membuat apa-apa usaha dalam empat tahun yang lepas untuk memohon maaf kepada DAP atau untuk mengakui kesilapannya dalam menabur penipuan dan fitnah berkaitan ICERD terhadap DAP.

Kini, Hadi mengulangi semula helah lamanya.

Surat Terbuka Hadi pada minggu lepas mendakwa yang kadar keluar mengundi orang Melayu dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 (PRU15) lebih rendah berbanding dengan kaum-kaum lain bukan sahaja “tidak berasas”, tetapi merupakan langkah pertama usaha menjatuhkan kerajaan Anwar seperti Langkah Sheraton sebelum ini.

Penganalisis politik, Bridget Welsh, dari University of Nottingham Malaysia mengatakan yang orang Melayu membentuk peratusan pengundi tertinggi berdasarkan data yang dikutipnya.

Dia mengatakan yang kadar keluar mengundi yang lebih rendah dalam kalangan orang Cina dan kumpulan etnik bukan-Melayu yang lain menafikan dakwaan Hadi yang kononnya 98 peratus golongan bukan Islam, termasuklah yang berada di luar negara, mengundi dalam PRU15 untuk “menyokong DAP” sedangkan hanya 60 peratus orang Islam sahaja yang mengundi. Hadi memberikan amaran yang mereka yang tidak mengundi mungkin telah berdosa kerana “mereka melanggar perintah Tuhan seperti yang disampaikan oleh Nabi Muhammad”.

Welsh mengatakan yang dakwaan Hadi ini mengulangi naratifnya yang kononnya orang Melayu sedang terancam dari segi politik, menambah yang dakwaan ini tidak berasas.

Welsh memetik analisanya yang menunjukkan kadar keluar mengundi pengundi Melayu pada kadar 79 peratus, diikuti pengundi India pada 78 peratus, Cina pada 69 peratus, dan lain-lain pada 59 peratus.

Dia mengatakan walaupun kadar keluar mengundi orang Melayu lebih tinggi berbanding dengan kaum-kaum lain, bukan semua orang Melayu menyokong Perikatan Nasional (PN), yang mana PAS merupakan sebuah parti komponennya. Dia mengatakan dalam kalangan orang Melayu yang mengundi, hanya 54 peratus sahaja yang menyokong PN.

Sekali lagi, Hadi amat salah. DAP mewakili bukan sahaja suara orang bukan Melayu dan bukan Islam, sebaliknya, DAP mewakili rakyat Malaysia —termasuklah orang Melayu dan orang Islam.

Bancian Populasi dan Perumahan 2010 dan 2020 telah membongkar politik toksik penipuan dan fitnah Hadi yang cuba menyemai kebencian dan syak wasangka dalam masyarakat majmuk di Malaysia.

Menurut Bancian 2020, tiga per empat rakyat Malaysia tinggal di kawasan bandar, dengan kebanyakan penduduk bandar dari kategori etnik bumiputera.

Kira-kira 14.1 juta orang — atau 62.6 peratus — penduduk bandar adalah bumiputera, diikuti oleh golongan etnik Cina pada 6.4 juta orang atau 28.6 peratus, etnik India pada 1.8 juta orang atau 8.1 peratus, dan lain-lain kumpulan etnik pada 0.2 juta orang atau 0.7 peratus.

Nisbah penduduk bumiputera ini telah bertambah apabila dibandingkan dengan bancian terakhir pada tahun 2010, di mana 58.9 peratus penduduk bandar merupakan bumiputera, menurut data Jabatan Statistik Malaysia.

Maklumat dari Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya menunjukkan 21,173,638 orang rakyat Malaysia telah mengundi dalam PRU15 berbanding dengan 14,940,624 orang pengundi dalam PRU14 sebelum ini.

Tambahan lagi, tidak mungkin untuk DAP memenangi 12 kerusi Parlimen semua calon-calon lain di kerusi-kerusi telah kehilangan deposit mereka jika DAP tidak menerima sokongan semua kumpulan kaum di kerusi-kerusi ini.

12 kerusi parlimen di mana semua lawan kepada DAP di sini kehilangan deposit mereka adalah Tanjong, Bagan, Bukit Gelugor, Bukit Bendera, Ipoh Barat, Batu Gajah, Segambut, Kepong, Cheras, Bukit Bintang, dan Seputeh.

DAP juga telah menang di 15 dari 20 kerusi dengan jumlah majoriti terbesar, didahului dengan kerusi timbalan pengerusi kebangsaan DAP, Gobind Singh Deo, yang telah menang di kerusi Damansara dengan majoriti sebanyak 124,619 undi.

19 kerusi-kerusi dengan majoriti besar yang lebih dari 43,882 undi adalah: Subang, Klang, Kota Raja, Bangi, Seputeh, Bukit Gelugor, Kepong, Iskandar Puteri, Segambut, Puchong, Bukit Mertajam, Ipoh Barat, Cheras, Batu Gajah, Bagan, Pandan, Kota Melaka, Tanah Merah, dan Ipoh Timur.

Mustahil untuk DAP sebegitu banyak kerusi Parlimen dengan majoriti gergasi sebegini tanpa sokongan daripada semua kumpulan etnik.

DAP, yang mempunyai tiga orang Ahli Parlimen Melayu di Parlimen, akan terus menjadi sebuah parti yang mewakili suara rakyat Malaysia, baik orang Melayu, Cina, India, Kadazan, Dayak atau orang Islam, Buddha, Hindu, Kristian, atau Sikh.

Saya tidak jangka yang Hadi akan memohon maaf di atas politik toksik penipuan, syak wasangka, fitnah, perkauman, dan keagamaan yang ditaburnya ini, sebaliknya dia akan terus mereka-reka penipuan dan fitnah baharu untuk menghasut kebencian dan syak wasangka di Malaysia.

Malaysia perlu ada kebebasan bersuara yang berteraskan kepada fakta dan pendapat tetapi kita perlu sentiasa berjaga-jaga terhadap politik toksik penipuan, syak wasangka, kebencian, perkauman, dan keagamaan, yang berpotensi untuk memusnah masyarakat majmuk pelbagai kaum, bahasa, agama, dan budaya di Malaysia.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Selasa, 27 Disember 2022)

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Anwar should ignore Mahathir and learn the most important lesson of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan Government — carry out as many of the “reformasi” institutional reforms in the early months of the new government as he may not have five years

(Versi BM)

The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim should ignore Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and learn the most important lesson of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan Government — carry out as many of the “reformasi” institutional reforms in the early months of the new government as he may not have five years.

He should carry out the promise he made after he was appointed the 10th Prime Minister by the Yang di Pertuan Agong on Nov. 24, 2022 that he would not compromise on good governance, the anti-corruption drive, judicial independence, and the welfare of ordinary Malaysians.

He should be aware that there are political forces which are conspiring to end his premiership as early as possible.

Anwar has rightly submitted himself to a vote of confidence in the two-day meeting of Parliament last week and he should make the February 2023 meeting of Parliament the most important and historic session of the Dewan Rakyat in the 66 years of Parliament by initiating a series of “reformasi” institutional reforms — marking the beginning of the process to end Malaysia’s national decline in the last six decades and to make Malaysia great again as a first-rate world-class plural Malaysian nation.

Mahathir had missed the historic opportunity to make Malaysia great again and this is the mistake which Anwar should not repeat.

Although the Mahathir Pakatan Harapan Government was toppled unconstitutionally and illegally by the Sheraton Move political conspiracy, Mahathir cannot fully absolve himself of responsibility for the Sheraton Move conspiracy.

Anwar should consider how the February 2023 Parliament could be made the most important parliamentary meeting in the history of Malaysia.

Transparency International (TI) would release its 2022 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) next month.

It is too late for the Anwar government to do anything to improve Malaysia’s TI 2022 CPI Report, but the Anwar government should do its utmost to ensure that the Malaysia’s TI 2023 CPI Report is the best for Malaysia, even better than the TI 2019 CPI Report, which was the best in 25 years since Transparency International started its annual CPI series in 1995.

In fact, Malaysians must be prepared for one the worst TI CPI reports in a month’s time.

It is one of the greatest regrets that the unconstitutional and illegal Sheraton Move political conspiracy in February 2020 which toppled the duly-elected Pakatan Harapan government after 22 months also ended Malaysia’s effort to become one of the world’s top 30 countries in public integrity by 2030.

Is there a new public integrity plan to make Malaysia one of the top 30 countries in the world in the annual TI CPIs in the 2030s and 2040s?

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, as well as all interested Malaysian NGOs and NGIs, should be invited within a month to submit proposals for a Malaysian National Anti-Corruption Plan to place Malaysia among the top 30 countries in the world in public integrity and such a Malaysian National Anti-Corruption Plan should be launched during the February 2023 Parliament.

That will give a great start for the February 2023 Parliament and the Anwar unity government.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Wednesday 28th December 2022)

Anwar patut abaikan Mahathir dan sebaliknya hayati pengajaran paling penting dari kerajaan Pakatan Harapan selama 22 bulan sebelum ini — untuk melaksanakan sebanyak mungkin “reformasi” institusi kerana kerajaan yang ada ini tidak semestinya akan bertahan selama lima tahun

Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, patut hanya mengabaikan Tun Dr. Mahathir dan sebaliknya menghayati pengajaran paling penting dari kerajaan Pakatan Harapan selama 22 bulan sebelum ini — untuk melaksanakan sebanyak mungkin “reformasi” institusi kerana kerajaan yang ada ini tidak semestinya akan bertahan selama lima tahun.

Dia patut melaksanakan janji-janji yang telah dibuatnya selepas dilantik menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-10 oleh Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di Pertuan Agong pada 24 November 2022 yang mana dia mengatakan dia tidak akan berkompromi dalam isu berkenaan tadbir urus yang baik, usaha membanteras rasuah, kebebasan badan kehakiman, dan kebajikan rakyat Malaysia.

Anwar perlu sentiasa sedar yang terdapat kuasa-kuasa politik yang sedang cuba untuk menamatkan riwayat kerajaannya seawal yang mungkin.

Anwar telah melakukan perkara yang tepat apabila dia menguji kepercayaan Ahli-ahli Parlimen terhadapnya sebagai Perdana Menteri dalam sidang dua hari pada minggu lepas dan dia patut menjadikan sidang Dewan Rakyat pada bulan Februari 2023 sebagai sebuah sidang yang paling penting dan bersejarah dengan melaksanakan beberapa reformasi institusi — memulakan proses untuk menghentikan kemerosotan negara dalam enam dekad yang lepas untuk mengembalikan tempat Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara majmuk hebat yang bertaraf dunia.

Mahathir telah terlepas peluang untuk berbuat demikian dan Anwar tidak boleh mengulangi kesilapan sebegini.

Walaupun kerajaan Pakatan Harapan pimpinan Mahathir sebelum ini ditumbangkan secara tidak sah melalui konspirasi politik Langkah Sheraton, Mahathir sendiri tidak boleh mencuci tangannya daripada bertanggungjawab terhadap konspirasi ini.

Anwar patut menimbangkan bagaimana sidang Parlimen pada Februari 2023 ini dapat dijadikan sebagai suatu sidang yang paling bersejarah negara.

Transparency International (TI) akan menerbitkan Indeks Persepsi Rasuah (CPI) 2022 pada bulan hadapan.

Sudah terlalu lambat untuk kerajaan Anwar berbuat apa-apa untuk menambah baik Laporan Indeks Persepsi Rasuah 2022 untuk Malaysia, tetapi kerajaan Anwar perlulah melakukan usaha yang terbaik mereka untuk memastikan laporan TI-CPI 2023 untuk Malaysia menjadi TI-CPI yang terbaik negara sejak dari penerbitan laporan ini 25 tahun yang lepas pada tahun 1995.

Malah, rakyat Malaysia perlulah bersedia untuk menyaksikan laporan TI-CPI terburuk dalam masa sebulan lagi.

Amat mengecewakan apabila konspirasi politik Langkah Sheraton yang tidak sah pada bulan Februari 2020 yang telah menumbangkan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan selepas hanya 22 bulan ini juga telah menamatkan usaha Malaysia untuk menjadi salah satu dari 30 negara terbaik dunia dari segi integriti awam.

Adakah terdapatnya apa-apa rancangan integriti awam baharu untuk meletakkan Malaysia dalam kalangan 30 negara terbaik dunia dalam tahun 2030 atau 2040?

Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) dan juga para NGO serta individu yang berminat patut dijemput dalam masa sebulan untuk menghantarkan cadangan-cadangan mereka kepada SPRM mengenai bagaimana untuk kita boleh meletakkan Malaysia dalam kalangan 30 negara terbaik di dunia dari segi integriti awam dan rancangan ini patut dilancarkan dalam sidang Parlimen pada bulan Februari 2023.

Perkara ini akan menjadi satu permulaan yang baik untuk sidang Parlimen Februari 2023 dan untuk Kerajaan Perpaduan Anwar.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Rabu, 28 Disember 2022)

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Malaysia has a big chance under Anwar unity government to rebuild Malaysia into a first-rate world-class plural nation – don’t spoil it

(Versi BM)

A clarification is in order with regard to my statement yesterday entitled: “Anwar should ignore Mahathir and learn the most important lesson of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan Government — carry out as many of the ‘reformasi’ institutional reforms in the early months of the new government as he may not have five years”.

I am aware that the naysayers are jumping on the statement as proof that Lim Kit Siang does not believe that Anwar Ibrahim will last five years as Prime Minister and fortified their resolve to topple Anwar Ibrahim as Prime Minister ala-Sheraton Move political conspiracy as soon as possible.

But my statement said nothing about Anwar not lasting five years as Prime Minister of Malaysia.

In fact, I want the Anwar Ibrahim to last five years as Prime Minister of Malaysia to prepare the country for the 16th General Election by 2027 by first ending Malaysia’s decline in six decades and begin the process to make Malaysia great again.

After more than a month as 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar has strengthened his chances of lasting five years as Prime Minister, although Anwar and all the unity government Ministers and leaders should learn the most important lesson of the 22-month Pakatan Harpaan Government: that there are political forces trying to topple them from power as soon as possible before the completion of their five-year term.

Whether the Anwar unity government will last five years, only time will tell. This is one of the issues to be fought out in the political battlefield to decide whether the Anwar unity government can last five years.

For me, I am increasingly confident that the Anwar unity government will last five years, both from the vote of confidence in Parliament last week and the various commendable initiatives in the first month of the Anwar unity government, but the Ministers and leaders of the Anwar unity government must always be conscious of the lesson of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government and carry out institutional reforms in the early months of the government

Every Minister should consider what are the institutional reforms that he or she can carry out in the seven-week Dewan Rakyat meeting from February 13 to March 30, 2023 to make it the most important and historic parliamentary meeting in the history of Malaysia.

Malaysia has a big chance under Anwar unity government to rebuild Malaysia into a first-rate world-class plural nation — don’t spoil it.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Thursday, 29th December 2022)

Kita ada peluang yang baik dengan kerajaan perpaduan Anwar untuk membina semula Malaysia menjadi sebuah negara majmuk yang bertaraf dunia — jangan sia-siakan peluang ini

Saya perlu berikan satu penjelasan mengenai kenyataan saya semalam yang bertajuk: “Anwar patut abaikan Mahathir dan sebaliknya hayati pengajaran paling penting dari kerajaan Pakatan Harapan selama 22 bulan sebelum ini — untuk melaksanakan sebanyak mungkin “reformasi” institusi kerana kerajaan yang ada ini tidak semestinya akan bertahan selama lima tahun”.

Saya sedar yang pihak lawan sedang bersorak dengna kenyataan ini sebagai bukti yang kononnya Lim Kit Siang tidak percaya yang Anwar Ibrahim tidak akan dapat bertahan sebagai Perdana Menteri selama lima tahun dan menguatkan usaha mereka untuk terus menumbangkan Anwar Ibrahim dengan gaya yang sama seperti konspirasi politik Langkah Sheraton secepat mungkin.

Tetapi kenyataan saya tidak ada apa-apa kaitan dengan Anwar tidak menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia selama lima tahun.

Malah, saya mahu Anwar untuk kekal sebagai Perdana Menteri selama lima tahun, untuk menyediakan negara dalam berhadapan dengan Pilihan Raya Umum ke-16 pada tahun 2027 dengan menghentikan kemerosotan negara dalam enam dekad yang lepas dan memulakan proses untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara hebat.

Selepas lebih dari sebulan sebagai Perdana Menteri ke-10, Anwar telah mengukuhkan peluangnya untuk bertahan selama lima tahun sebagai Perdana Menteri, tetapi Anwar dan semua para Menteri dan pemimpin kerajaan perpaduan perlu sentiasa sedar mengenai pengajaran yang paling penting dari kerajaan Pakatan Harapan selama 22 bulan sebelum ini: yang bahawa akan sentiasa ada kuasa politik yang mencuba untuk menumbangkan mereka sebelum lengkapnya penggal lima tahun.

Sama ada kerajaan perpaduan Anwar ini akan bertahan selama lima tahun, hanya masa yang akan menentukannya. Inilah salah satu isu yang akan ditempurkan di medan peperangan politik.

Bagi saya, saya semakin yang kerajaan perpaduan Anwar akan bertahan selama lima tahun selepas undi percaya di Parlimen pada minggu lepas dan dengan pelbagai inisiatif baik dalam bulan pertama kerajaan ini, tetapi para Menteri dan pemimpin dalam kerajaan perpaduan Anwar perlulah sentiasa mengingati apa yang berlaku kepada kerajaan PH selepas 22 bulan dan melaksanakan reformasi institusi dalam bulan-bulan terawal kerajaan ini.

Setiap Menteri perlu pertimbangkan reformasi institusi yang mereka dapat laksanakan dalam sidang Dewan Rakyat tujuh minggu yang akan berlangsung dari 13 Februari hingga 30 Mac 2023 untuk menjadikan sidang ini sebagai sidang yang paling penting dan bersejarah dalam sejarah negara kita.

Kita ada peluang yang baik dengan kerajaan perpaduan Anwar untuk membina semula Malaysia menjadi sebuah negara majmuk yang bertaraf dunia — jangan sia-siakan peluang ini.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Khamis, 29 Disember 2022)

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The Rulers, led by the Yang di Pertuan Agong and the Sultans of Johore and Selangor, have set a good example to all Muslims in Malaysia in wishing “Merry Christmas” to Christians in Malaysia for the country to be a global example of a plural nation where there is unity, understanding and harmony among the different religions in the country, consistent with Islam as the official religion of the country

The Rulers, led by the Yang di Pertuan Agong and the Sultans of Johore and Selangor, have set a good example to all Muslims in Malaysia in wishing “Merry Christmas” to Christians in Malaysia for the country to be a global example of a plural nation where there is unity, understanding and harmony among the different religions in the country, consistent with Islam as the official religion of the country.

This is also in line with what Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman aspired for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”, to show not only the presence of unity, understanding, and harmony in diversity, but that the diversity of ethnicities, languages, religions, cultures, and civilisations is a reality in the global world.

If we cannot co-exist among different races, languages, religions, and cultures in a national environment, how can there be co-existence among different ethnicities, languages, religions, and cultures in the global world?

This is why I have always believed in inter-religious and inter-civilisational dialogue and exchange, for we must promote unity, understanding, harmony, and common values and not allow room for the existential threat to Malaysia and the modern global world — the toxic and divisive politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion.

This was the reason why 41 years ago, I invited Anwar Ibrahim, then regarded as a firebrand ABIM Islamist, to a DAP retreat in Cameron Highlands in early 1981 to dialogue and exchange views with DAP leaders on how to make Malaysia great.

In my 57 years of public life, I have been accused of being anti-Malay and anti-Islam, when in fact, throughout my life, I have ensured that the DAP is a party of all Malaysians, regardless of race and religion

I initiated the inter-civilisational dialogues with the then Kelantan Mentri Besar Nik Aziz Nik Mat in 2001 to promote greater understanding between the different communities in Malaysia subscribing to different spiritual faiths and political ideologies, because I believe what Malaysia needs most among the different races, religions, and cultures is greater mutual understanding, harmony and unity and not fear and hatred of each other through the twin efforts of firstly, ignorance and lack of understanding among the different ethnicities and religions and secondly, the deliberate and toxic politics of lies, hate, fear, race, and religion deliberately pumped up by certain political personalities and movements.

In my 57 years of political life, I have travelled to and visited more parts of Malaysia than an average Malaysian, and I can say with conviction that there is no anti-Malay, anti-Chinese, anti-Indian, anti-Kadazan, anti-Dayak or anti-Muslim, anti-Buddhist, anti-Hindu, or anti-Christianity sentiments on the ground, but certain political personalities and political parties want to continue to poison the minds of the people that the Malays and Islam are under threat.

Where does the threat to Malays and Islam come from?

I was also accused of being a communist and an Islamophobe.

As I said in 2019, I am prepared to pay this this price for integrity as I would not be accused by the PAS President, Hadi Awang, to be anti-Malay, anti-Islam, a communist, even a Islamaphobe if I had supported Hadi as the Prime Minister-designate of the Pakatan Rakyat in the 2013 general election.

Before the 13th General Election, Hadi through the PAS leadership had approached me to broach the subject of a Prime Ministerial-designate, on the ground the Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was not a suitable candidate.

PAS leaders was quite astute as not to suggest themselves that Hadi should be the Prime Ministerial candidate for Pakatan Rakyat, and diplomatically suggested that their proposal for a suitable Prime Ministerial candidate was veteran UMNO politician Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.

When DAP leaders dissented and held to our view that Anwar should continue to be the Prime Ministerial candidate for Pakatan Rakyat, and we made no suggestion that Hadi should instead be considered as the Prime Ministerial candidate, the PAS leaders knew that the DAP would not support Hadi as the Prime Minister-designate and the proposal replace Anwar as the Prime Ministerial candidate was not further pursued.

Malaysia should be the nation to show the world how a plural nation of different races, languages, religions and cultures can live in peace, harmony, and understanding in keeping with an increasingly smaller global village as a result the advances of information technology, but we have failed to do so.

We have ceded this role to Indonesia, where President Jokowi attended church during Christmas to spread the message of understanding, goodwill, harmony, and unity among different religions in Indonesia.

With Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister, we now have a chance to return to the original nation-building principles of our nation’s founding fathers, personalities like the first four UMNO Presidents, Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein, and Hussein Onn and other Malaysians like Tan Cheng Lock, Tan Siew Sin, Lim Chong Eu, and V.T. Sambanthan.

Can we reset and return to the nation-building principles as spelt out by the nation’s founding fathers in the Constitution and Rukun Negara — constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy, separation of powers, rule of law, an independent judiciary, Islam as the official religion of the country, good governance, public integrity with minimum corruption, a clean and honest government, meritocracy, respect for human rights, an end to the various justices and inequalities in the country, a world-class economic, educational, health and social system and national unity, understanding and harmony from our multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-cultural diversity?

Malaysia must not left behind by a world which is opening up.

The Communist Chinese President Xi Jinping was lavishly welcomed in Riyadh by Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman heralding China’s “epoch-making milestone” in its relations with the Arab world in contrast to the frigid visit of US President Joe Biden to Saudi Arabia earlier in the year.

But time will tell whether Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup will have lasting effect on improving the human rights situation there.

Malaysia should represent new thinking in the international arena to promote peace, understanding, harmony, and unity by being an exemplar in plural nation-building.

We must also leverage on Malaysia’s unique place as the confluence of four great civilisations — Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian, and Western — to promote the values and virtues of these four great civilisations for the benefit of mankind and realise Tunku Abdul Rahman’s aspiration for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Friday, 30th December 2022)

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2023 will be make-or-break year for Anwar Unity Government and Malaysia to be great again

2023 will be a make-or-break year for Anwar Unity Government and Malaysia to be a great again.

The Anwar Unity Government has started on the right footing in its first month office, vindicating what Anwar promised after he was appointed the 10th Prime Minister by the Yang di Pertuan Agong on Nov. 24, 2022 that he would not compromise on good governance, the anti-corruption drive, judicial independence, and the welfare of ordinary Malaysians.

While Malaysians must learn from the lesson of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan Government not to expect a miracle overnight, and to undo the excesses and abuses of misgovernance of the nation in the past six decades with a blink of the eye, the Anwar unity government must demonstrate its bona fides in two great tasks before it — how to make Malaysia great again and to start achieving the national unity from the diversity of ethnicities, languages, religions, cultures and civilizations that meet in confluence in Malaysia.

Firstly, by the first year in office of the Anwar unity government, the following features should be promoted:

Good Governance — the Ministers and Deputy Ministers place the national interests above their self-interests and are prepared to make sacrifices for the country to form a good, clean, honest and efficient government. Making public the report and recommendations of the Eminent Persons Council to the Pakatan Harapan Government about institutional reforms in 2018 and the establishment of an Ombudsman will be helpful in this direction.

Anti-Corruption Drive — the launching of a new Malaysian National Anti-Corruption Plan to place Malaysia among the top 30 countries in the world in public integrity.

Judicial Independence — Legislation to remove all Executive influence on judicial appointments, as amendment to the Judicial Appointments Committee Act to remove any Executive influence on the appointment and promotion of judges in Malaysia.

People’s Welfare — Malaysia achieving its ambition to be a tiger economy (which it nearly achieved previously), with jobs and high wages for Malaysians, minimum wage for workers, and world class education and health system, together with a policy to discourage talents emigration.

National Unity — Malaysia becomes a world example of a plural nation achieving unity in diversity, harmony and understanding among diverse ethnicities, languages, religions and cultures.

Happy New Year Malaysians — Let us make Malaysia Great Again.

Let us unite to show the world how to stop the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race and religion from destroying Malaysia and the world.

(2023 New Year Eve Message by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on 31st December 2022)

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Malaysia must spend the last third of Malaysia’s Centennial to make the nation great again and not again lose the national compass as entrenched in the Malaysian Constitution and Rukun Negara as happened in the second third of the Centennial

Today is the first day of the new year 2023.

2023 will be tough and challenging year for Malaysia, for we want to compete with the world by becoming a world-class nation and not destroy ourselves by fighting among Malaysians through the use of toxic and divisive politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion.

We have spent two-thirds of our first Centennial of 100 years.

In the first one third of our Centennial from 1957, we kept to the national compass for a plural nation and the original nation-building principles as spelt out by the nation’s founding fathers in the Constitution and Rukun Negara — constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy, separation of powers, rule of law, an independent judiciary, Islam as the official religion of the country, good governance, public integrity with minimum corruption, a clean and honest government, meritocracy, respect for human rights, an end to the various injustices and inequalities in the country, a world-class economic, educational, health and social system, and national unity, understanding and harmony from our multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-cultural diversity.

But in the second third of our Centennial, we increasingly forgot about the national compass for a plural society, with abuses of power and corruption became rampant, until people who do not accept the five principles of Rukun Negara as the national moral compass could become Cabinet Ministers and Malaysia became associated in the world with kleptocracy.

Malaysia must re-set and return to the original national compass or we will end up in the first Centennial in 2057 as a divided, failed, and kleptocratic state.

This is the challenge before Malaysians — to bravely move forward to compete with the rest of the world or to allow the toxic and divisive politics of lies, fear, hate, race and religion to cause Malaysia to degenerate into a failed, divided and kleptocratic state in another three-and-a-half decades, losing Malaysian talents especially in the STEM sectors to the rest of the world.

DAP wants Malaysia to spend the last third of Malaysia’s Centennial to make the nation great again and not again lose the national compass as entrenched in the Malaysian Constitution and Rukun Negara as happened in the second third of the Centennial.

(Speech by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang at the opening of DAP Bagan Parliamentary Service Centre on Sunday, 1st January 2023 at 12.30 p.m.)

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Malaysia started New Year on good and proper footing — let us make Malaysia great again where abuses of power, corruption, and kleptocracy are no more associated with Malaysia

(Versi BM)

Malaysia started the 2023 New Year on a good and proper footing.

The old year of 2022 ended with an unprecedented stretch of 15 days in double-digit figures for the Covid-19 pandemic cases and 19 consecutive days in single-digit figures for Covid-19 deaths — with even one day (Christmas Day on Dec. 25) with zero death.

On the political front, we ended five years with four Prime Ministers and look forward to political stability in the next five years with one Prime Minister.

At long last, there is hope that Malaysia can be great again.

The 10th Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, has laid out the charter for his unity government in his 2023 New Year’s Eve Message in making economic revival and improving the living standards the top priority of his government.

Malaysians look forward to his 2024 New Year’s Eve Message to hear the progress report of his government’s efforts to restore investor confidence to draw funding and to create new high-paying jobs as well as his pledge to lead a clean, honest, efficient, and corruption-free administration.

Anwar has promised that he would not compromise on corruption and that no preferential treatment will be given if any of members of his administration is convicted of graft.

I fully back his zero-tolerance policy for corruption and his commitment to recover billions of ringgit which were “unloaded” by the nation’s former leaders to ensure that at least some of the funds taken are returned to the people.

As Anwar said, there are still among the rakyat who earns RM40 a day but then there were those among those takers who took RM4 mil (a day).

Equally important to revive Malaysian economy and to ensure a clean, honest, efficient, and corruption-free government is to unite Malaysians for the Malaysian goal.

I applaud his message that Muslims should consider Muslims as brothers in religion and non-Muslims as their brothers in humanity to build a Malaysia which could be a “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.

We must defend democracy and freedom of expression, but we must show zero-tolerance to lies, falsehood, and fake news exploiting race and religion to divide Malaysians.

We must show the world how plural nation like Malaysia can build a common future with unity, understanding, and harmony out of the diversity of ethnicities, languages, religions and cultures.

This lesson is much needed in an increasingly smaller global village with the vast changes in information technology

Let all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, and region be Malaysian First to make Malaysia great again where abuses of power, corruption, and kleptocracy are no more associated with Malaysia.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Sunday, 1st January 2023)

Malaysia memulakan Tahun Baru dengan asas yang baik — mari kita jadikan Malaysia hebat semula, di mana salah guna kuasa, rasuah, dan kleptokrasi tidak lagi dikaitkan dengan Malaysia

Malaysia masuk ke dalam Tahun Baru 2023 dengan asas yang baik.

Tahun 2022 telah berakhir dengan 15 hari berturut-turut dengan kes baharu dalam julat tiga angka dan 19 hari berturut-turut dengan kematian akibat Covid-19 dalam julat satu angka — dengan satu hari (Hari Krismas pada 25 Disember) dengan sifar kematian.

Dari segi politik pula, kita telah menamatkan lima tahun dengan empat orang Perdana Menteri dan kini dapat berharap untuk melihat kestabilan politik dalam lima tahun yang akan datang dengan seorang Perdana Menteri.

Akhirnya, terdapat harapan yang Malaysia boleh menjadi hebat sekali lagi.

Perdana Menteri ke-10, Anwar Ibrahim, telah membentangkan rancangan kerajaan perpaduannya dalam Perutusan Ambang Tahun Baru 2023 untuk membawa perancakan semula ekonomi dan meningkatkan taraf kehidupan sebagai keutamaan tertinggi kerajaannya.

Rakyat Malaysia kini menantikan Perutusan Ambang Tahun Baru 2024 Anwar untuk mendengar laporan perkembangan terkini usaha kerajaannya untuk mengembalikan keyakinan pelabur untuk membawa dana dan mencipta pekerjaan berpendapatan tinggi dan juga laporan mengenai janjinya untuk mengetuai sebuah kerajaan yang bersih, jujur, efisyen, dan bebas rasuah.

Anwar telah menjanjikan yang dia tidak akan berkompromi mengenai rasuah dan tidak ada layanan istimewa akan diberikan kepada mana-mana ahli pentadbirannya yang disabit rasuah.

Saya menyokong penuh dasar sifar toleransi terhadap rasuah ini dan juga komitmen dia untuk membawa pulang berbillion ringgit yang “dikeluarkan” oleh para pemimpin negara yang terdahulu untuk memastikan sekurang-kurangnya ada sebahagian dari dana ini dapat dikembalikan kepada rakyat.

Seperti yang Anwar katakan, masih ada dalam kalangan rakyat Malaysia yang meraih RM40 sehari, tetapi pada masa yang sama ada mereka yang mengambil RM4 juta sehari.

Perkara yang sama penting dengan usaha untuk menghidupkan semula ekonomi dan memastikan adanya kerajaan yang bersih, jujur, efisyen, dan bebas rasuah adalah usaha untuk menyatukan rakyat Malaysia demi suatu cita-cita bersama sebagai rakyat Malaysia.

Saya menyokong mesej Anwar yang mengatakan yang orang Islam patut menganggap orang Islam sebagai bersaudara dalam agama dan orang bukan Islam sebagai bersaudara dalam kemanusiaan untuk membina sebuah Malaysia yang mampu menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang sukar dan terganggu”.

Kita perlu pertahankan demokrasi dan kebebasan bersuara, tetapi kita tidak boleh bertoleransi dengan penipuan, fitnah, dan berita palsu yang mengeksploitasikan isu perkauman dan keagamaan untuk memecah-belahkan rakyat Malaysia.

Kita perlu tunjukkan kepada dunia, bagaimana sebuah negara majmuk seperti Malaysia dapat membina sebuah masa hadapan bersama dengan perpaduan, persefahaman, dan keharmonian daripada kepelbagaian etnik, bahasa, agama, dan budaya yang ada.

Perkara ini adalah satu pengajaran yang amat diperlukan dalam dunia global yang kini terasa semakin rapat dan kecil dengan perubahan besar yang dibawa oleh teknologi maklumat.

Mari semua rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum, agama, atau kawasan, melihat diri kita semua sebagai pertamanya rakyat Malaysia, supaya kita dapat jadikan Malaysia sebuah negara hebat, di mana salah guna kuasa, rasuah, dan kleptokrasi tidak lagi dikaitkan dengan nama negara kita yang tercinta.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Ahad, 1 Disember 2023)

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Why is Muhyiddin Yassin not the Parliamentary Opposition Leader?

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Why is Muhyddin Yassin not the Parliamentary Opposition Leader?

Is he retiring from politics?

The answer is “No” as he has not given up the opportunity to become Prime Minister once again and that is why he is not vacating his position as President of Bersatu and Chairman of Perikatan Nasional to give way to someone else to lead both political organisations.

There are at least three reasons why Muhyiddin does not want to become the Parliamentary Opposition Leader — he does not want to be confronted especially in Parliament on three issues, namely:

As the first backdoor Prime Minister in Malaysia who dared not test his legitimacy with a vote of confidence in Parliament.

Illegitimate, illegal and unconstitutional suspension of Parliament.

His abysmal failure to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic causing Malaysia to have the longest Covid-19 wave in the world.

No other country in the world has illegally and unconstitutionally suspended Parliament to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, and what was worse, his abysmal failure to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic.

When Muhyiddin suspended Parliament and declared emergency on January 11, 2021 to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, there were 138,224 Covid-19 cases and 555 Covid-19 deaths.

Six months later, when Muhyiddin resigned and Emergency ended, there were over 10 times more Covid-19 cases and 24 times the Covid-19 deaths to reach nearly 1.5 million Covid-19 cases and over 13,000 Covid-19 deaths.

For the National Day month of August, 2020, Malaysia had 364 Covid-19 cases and two Covid-19 deaths. For the National Day month of August 2021, Malaysia had more than 630,000 Covid-19 cases and more than 7,400 deaths — an exponential increase of 17,000 times for the number of Covid-19 cases and more than, 3,700 times the Covid-19 deaths?

Can any other political leader do worse?

This is why when Muhyidddin urged the government to take immediate action to ensure the people are protected from the new Covid-19 variant which has been detected in several countries, the point is valid but the question that immediately arises is whether Muyhiddin is the last person qualified to talk about the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to 15th general election results, the Parliamentary Opposition Leader should be PAS President, Hadi Awang, as PAS won 43 and Bersatu won 31 parliamentary seats.

However Hadi wanted to use Perikatan Nasional as a cover for his toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race and religion to polarise Malaysia like his attacks on the DAP as anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist and promoting Islamophobia.

Does Muhyiddin agree?

If so, why did Muhyiddin approach me in 2016 to ask for DAP support for him to be the Prime Minister?

If I had agreed, is the DAP not anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist and promoting Islamophobia?

Just because I declined to give him a positive answer, as the DAP was committed to naming Anwar Ibrahim as the Prime Minister-designate, does the DAP become anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist and promoting Islamophobia?

The same applied to Hadi.

In 2013, Hadi and his lieutenants met me to argue that Anwar Ibrahim was not appropriate to be Pakatan Rakyat’s Prime Minister-designate and suggested Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.

When I declined to agree, stating that the DAP would abide by our commitment to Anwar Ibrahim as the Prime Minister-designate of Malaysia, and failed to suggest that the PM-designate should be Hadi himself, had the DAP suddenly become anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist and promoting Islamophobia?

Let Muhyiddin declare whether he agrees with Hadi that the DAP is anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist and promoting Islamophobia and cite evidence to substantiate such allegations.

There is another matter which Muhyiddin has to clarify, why he is so against a reset to return to the original nation-building principles supported by the first four UMNO Presidents six decades ago as he allowed into his Cabinet Ministers who do not accept these original nation-building principles as spelt out in the Malaysian Constitution and Rukun Negara.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Monday, 2nd January 2022)

Mengapakah Muhyiddin Yassin tidak menjadi Ketua Pembangkang di Parlimen?

Mengapakah Muhyiddin Yassin tidak menjadi Ketua Pembangkang di Parlimen?

Adakah dia hendak bersara dari politik?

Jawapannya “Tidak” kerana dia masih belum berputus asa dengan usaha untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri sekali lagi, kerana inilah dia tidak meninggalkan jawatannya sebagai Presiden Bersatu dan Pengerusi Perikatan Nasional untuk memberikan laluan kepada orang lain untuk memimpin kedua-dua organisasi politik ini.

Adakah sekurang-kurangnya tiga sebab mengapa Muhyiddin tidak mahu menjadi Ketua Pembangkang di Parlimen – dia tidak mahu berhadapan dengan tiga perkara berikut di Parlimen:

1. Kedudukannya sebagai Perdana Menteri pintu belakang yang pertama yang tidak berani untuk menguji keabsahan kerajaannya di Parlimen dengan satu undi percaya.

2. Perbuatannya untuk menggantung sidang Parlimen secara haram dan tidak sah.

3. Kegagalannya dalam menguruskan wabak Covid-19 yang telah menyebabkan negara kita berhadapan dengan gelombang penularan Covid-19 yang terpanjang di dunia.

Tidak ada negara lain dalam dunia yang telah secara haram dan tidak sah menggantung sidang Parlimen untuk menguruskan wabak Covid-19, dan apa yang lebih buruk lagi, Muhyiddin tetap gagal untuk menguruskan wabak ini dengan baik selepas menggantung sidang Parlimen.

Semasa Muhyiddin mengisytiharkan darurat pada 11 Januari 2021 untuk melawan wabak Covid-19, negara kita mencatatkan 138,224 kes dan 555 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Enam bulan kemudian, ketika Muhyiddin meletakkan jawatan dan darurat berakhir, terdapat lebih dari 10 kali lebih banyak kes dan 24 kali ganda lebih banyak kematian akibat Covid-19 – dengan hampir 1.5 juta kes terkumpul dan lebih dari 13,000 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Semasa Hari Kebangsaan pada Ogos 2020, Malaysia mencatatkan 364 kes Covid-19 dengan dua kematian akibat Covid-19. Setahun kemudian dalam bulan Ogos 2021, kita mencatatkan lebih dari 630,000 kes dan lebih dari 7,400 kematian – peningkatan 17,000 kali ganda dari segi jumlah kes terkumpul dan peningkatan 3,700 kali ganda kadar kematian.

Bolehkah mana-mana pemimpin politik yang lain menunjukkan prestasi yang lebih buruk dari ini?

Kerana inilah apabila Muhyiddin menggesa kerajaan untuk mengambil tindakan segera untuk memastikan rakyat terjaga dari varian baharu Covid-19, hujahnya ini tepat, tetapi dia juga perlu sedar yang dia adalah orang yang paling kurang layak untuk bercakap mengenai pengurusan wabak Covid-19.

Mengikut keputusan Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 baru-baru ini, Presiden PAS, Hadi Awang patut menjadi Ketua Pembangkang di Parlimen memandangkan PAS telah menenangi 43 kerusi manakala Bersatu hanya memenangi 31 kerusi.

Namun, Hadi mahu menggunakan Perikatan Nasional sebagai pelindung untuk dia terus menyebarkan politik toksik berasaskan penipuan, syak wasangka, kebencian, sentimen perkauman, dan keagamaan untuk memecah-belahkan rakyat Malaysia seperti yang dilakukan melalui serangannya terhadap DAP yang mengatakan kononnya DAP bersifat anti Melayu, anti Islam, komunis, dan mempromosikan Islamofobia.

Adakah Muhyiddin bersetuju?

Sekiranya ya, mengapakah Muhyiddin mendekati saya pada tahun 2016 untuk mendapatkan sokongan DAP untuk menjadikan dia sebagai Perdana Menteri?

Sekiranya saya bersetuju ketika itu, adakah DAP tidak anti Melayu, anti Islam, komunis, dan mempromosikan Islamofobia?

Hanya kerana saya menolak untuk memberikan sokongan kepadanya, kerana DAP telah komited untuk menamakan Anwar Ibrahim sebagai calon Perdana Menteri, tiba-tiba DAP menjadi anti Melayu, anti Islam, komunis, dan mempromosikan Islamofobia?

Perkara yang sama juga terpakai pada Hadi.

Pada tahun 2013, Hadi dan orang-orangnya telah berjumpa dengan saya untuk berhujah yang Anwar Ibrahim tidak sesuai untuk menjadi calon Perdana Menteri Pakatan Rakyat dan mereka mencadangkan supaya Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah dicalonkan.

Apabila saya menolak untuk bersetuju – mengulangi komitmen DAP untuk menamakan Anwar Ibrahim sebagai calon Perdana Menteri – dan gagal untuk mencadangkan Hadi sendiri sebagai calon PM, adakah DAP tiba-tiba menjadi anti Melayu, anti Islam, komunis, dan mempromosikan Islamofobia?

Biarlah Muhyiddin yang mengisytiharkan sendiri sama ada dia bersetuju dengan Hadi yang kononnya DAP ini anti Melayu, anti Islam, komunis, dan mempromosikan Islamofobia dan biar dia kemukakan bukti-bukti terhadap tuduhan ini sekiranya dia bersetuju.

Ada satu lagi perkara yang memerlukan penjelasan dari Muhyiddin; mengapakah dia sebegitu menentang idea untuk mengembalikan semula Malaysia kepada prinsip-prinsip asas pembinaan negara yang disokong oleh empat orang Presiden UMNO yang terawal pada enam dekad yang lepas, memandangkan dia sendiri telah membiarkan para pemimpin yang menolak prinsip-prinsip yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan Rukun Negara ini untuk menyertai barisan Jemaah Menterinya.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Isnin, 2 Januari 2023)

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Why the three-week eerie silence of the accusers to cite a single instance to prove DAP is anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist and promoting Islamophobia from the 14-year DAP-led Penang State Government from 2008 to 2022?

(Versi BM)

Three weeks ago, I invited Malaysians from Perlis to Johore, as well as in Sabah and Sarawak, to cite an instance of the DAP being anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist and promoting Islamophobia from the 14 years of DAP-led Penang State Government from 2008 to 2022.

But there were no takers. Instead, there was a long eerie silence which does not befit honest, upright, and righteous accusers of wrongdoing by others.

If I had made serious allegations against others, and I have been challenged to substantiate my allegations, I would have jumped at the opportunity to prove my case.

But in this case, there was only eerie silence.

Why is this so? Isn’t this proof that the accusers have wrongly and without basis made wild allegations against the DAP as being anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist, and promoting Islamophobia?

We are in an era where there are people who believe it is possible to make a wrong into a right.

This is most apparent in the social media, as lately there has been in circulation WhatsApp of past events passing off as current events.

In the modern era of information technology, it is easier to try to rewrite history and whitewash the sins of the past.

A most recent case happened yesterday when the Bersatu Youth chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal said Malaysia lost control of the Covid-19 pandemic because the Pakatan Harapan government made the mistake in February 2020 by being slow in barring tourists from risky countries.

This is utter rubbish for two reasons: firstly, the Pakatan Harapan government was toppled by the infamous Sheraton Move political conspiracy in February 2020, and secondly, the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia was under control until National

Day 2020. Malaysia lost control of the Coivid-19 pandemic when the Perikatan Nasional was power-greedy and forced the holding of the Sabah state general election in September 2020.

As a result, in the National Day month of August, 2020, Malaysia had 364 Covid-19 cases and two Covid-19 deaths. But in the National Day month of August 2021, Malaysia had more than 630,000 Covid-19 cases and more than 7,400 deaths — an exponential increase of 17,000 times for the number of Covid-19 cases and more than, 3,700 times the Covid-19 deaths!

And that was after the first “backdoor” Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin illegitimately, illegally, and unconstitutionally suspended Parliament on January 11, 2021, when Malaysia had cumulative total of 138,224 Covid-19 cases and 555 Covid-19 deaths.

Six months later, when Muhyiddin resigned as “backdoor” Prime Minister, the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases was over 10 times more, reaching nearly 1.5 million cases, and the cumulative total of Covid-19 deaths were 24 times more, with over 13,000 Covid-19 deaths.

Yet Bersatu and Perikatan want to rewrite history and claimed that Muhyiddin’s greatest success was to conquer the Covid-19 pandemic, when the truth was opposite — it was Muhyiddin’s greatest failure.

When Muhyiddin claimed during the 15th General Election that “only a few died” as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic under his premiership, it was his most irresponsible statement — second only to his 2010 statement that he was “Malay first” and not “Malaysian first”.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Tuesday, 3rd January 2023)

Mengapakah tidak ada sebarang bukti yang dapat dipetik dari Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang yang dipimpin DAP selama 14 tahun untuk mengatakan yang DAP ini kononnya anti Melayu, anti Islam, komunis, dan mempromosikan Islamofobia dari mereka yang menuduh sedemikian selepas tiga minggu?

Tiga minggu yang lepas, saya telah menjemput rakyat Malaysia, dari Perlis hingga ke Johor, dan juga dari Sabah dan Sarawak, untuk memetik satu contoh di mana DAP bertindak secara anti Melayu, anti Islam, komunis, atau mempromosikan Islamofobia dari Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang yang dipimpin DAP selama 14 tahun dari 2008 hingga 2022.

Tetapi, sehingga hari ini, tiada siapa dapat menunjukkan bukti ini. Sebaliknya, yang ada hanyalah kesunyian yang tidak sepatutnya ada sekiranya mereka yang membuat pertuduhan ini adalah dari kalangan orang yang jujur dan benar.

Sekiranya saya telah membuat pertuduhan yang serius terhadap orang lain dan saya dicabar untuk mengemukakan bukti, saya akan menggunakan peluang tersebut untuk membuktikan tuduhan saya.

Tetapi dalam kes ini, hanya ada kesunyian sahaja.

Mengapakah begini? Bukankah perkara ini menjadi bukti yang mereka yang menuduh ini telah membuat tuduhan palsu yang salah dan tidak berasas dalam mengatakan DAP sebagai kononnya anti Melayu, anti Islam, komunis, atau mempromosikan Islamofobia?

Kita kini berada dalam era di mana ada orang yang percaya mungkin untuk perkara yang salah ditukar menjadi benar.

Perkara ini kelihatan dengan jelas dalam media sosial di mana kebelakangan ini, berlegar mesej-mesej di Whatsapp yang cuba mengatakan perkara yang telah lama berlaku sebagai perkara yang sedang berlaku.

Dalam era teknologi maklumat moden, lebih mudah untuk mencuba menulis semula sejarah dari membersihkan dosa-dosa lama.

Kes terbaru yang berlaku semalam adalah apabila ketua Pemuda Bersatu, Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal, mengatakan yang Malaysia telah gagal untuk mengawal penularan wabak Covid-19 kerana kerajaan Pakatan Harapan membuat kesilapan pada bulan Februari 2020 dengan bertindak perlahan untuk menyekat kemasukan pelancong dari negara berisiko.

Perkara ini tidak masuk akal atas dua sebab: kerajaan Pakatan Harapan telah ditumbangkan oleh konspirasi politik Langkah Sheraton pada bulan Februari 2020; dan kedua, penularan wabak Covid-19 di Malaysia terkawal sehinggalah Hari Kebangsaan 2020. Malaysia gagal mengawal penularan wabak ini apabila Perikatan Nasional mula menjadi tamak kuasa dan memaksa untuk Pilihan Raya Negeri Sabah diadakan pada bulan September 2020.

Hasilnya, semasa Hari Kebangsaan pada bulan Ogos 2020, Malaysia mencatatkan 364 kes dan dua kematian akibat Covid-19. Tetapi semasa Hari Kebangsaan pada bulan Ogos 2021, Malaysia mencatatkan lebih dari 630,000 kes dengan lebih dari 7,400 kematian akibat Covid-19 — peningkatan berganda sebanyak 17,000 dan 3,700 kali ganda untuk angka kes dan kematian akibat Covid-19!

Dan perkara semua ini terjadi selepas Perdana Menteri “pintu belakang” yang pertama, Muhyiddin Yassin, menggantung sidang Parlimen secara haram dan tidak sah pada 11 Januari 2021 — yang mana ketika itu Malaysia mencatatkan sejumlah 138,224 kes dengan 555 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Enam bulan kemudian, ketika Muhyiddin meletakkan jawatan, jumlah kes terkumpul telah meningkat 10 kali ganda, menghampiri 1.5 juta kes dan jumlah kematian meningkat 24 kali ganda dengan lebih dari 13,000 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Tetapi, Bersatu dan Perikatan Nasional masih mencuba untuk menulis semula sejarah dan cuba untuk mengatakan yang kejayaan terbesar Muhyiddin adalah dalam mengawal wabak Covid-19, sedangkan perkara yang sebaliknya yang berlaku — pengurusan wabak Covid-19 adalah kegagalan terbesar Muhyiddin.

Kenyataan Muhyiddin yang mengatakan “hanya beberapa orang sahaja yang mati” akibat wabak Covid-19 di bawah pimpinannya semasa berkempen untuk Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 adalah kenyataannya yang paling tidak bertanggungjawab — yang hanya boleh disaingi oleh kenyataan tidak bertanggungjawabnya pada tahun 2010 yang mengatakan yang dia adalah seorang yang “pertamanya Melayu” dan bukannya seorang yang “pertamanya rakyat Malaysia”.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Selasa, 3 Januari 2023)

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