Hadi should explain why he is so irresponsible as to make the wild accusation that DAP is promoting Islamophobia when the OIC Islamophobia Observatory in unable to report a single case of Islamophobia in Malaysia although it had monitored all forms of Islamophobia in the world on a daily basis for the past 15 years?

(Versi BM)

The PAS President, Hadi Awang should explain why he is so irresponsible as to make the wild accusation that DAP is promoting Islamophobia when the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) Islamophobia Observatory in unable to report a single case of Islamophobia in Malaysia although it had monitored all forms of Islamophobia in the world on a daily basis for the past 15 years?

I have gone through the 14 reports on Islamophobia of the OIC Islamophobia Observatory since 2007, which are authoritative accounts of the problem of Islamophobia in the world, but I have not been able to find a single case of Islamophobia in Malaysia reported in the reports in the last 15 years.

I do not think Islam teaches its preachers and followers to tell lies and falsehoods, and it is the duty of Hadi Awang, as the PAS President, to clarify the matter.

As recounted by veteran journalist, Terence Netto two days ago, in 2013 Hadi led a coterie of PAS leaders to meet and urge Anwar Ibrahim to yield to PAS preference of Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah as their choice of prime minister — in the event Pakatan Rakyat won the 13th general election (GE13).

Hadi and this “coterie of PAS leaders” also met me but I declined to agree, stating that the DAP would abide by our commitment of Anwar Ibrahim as the Prime Minister-designate of Malaysia, or the DAP with PAS, as two of the three component parties in the Pakatan Rakyat coalition, would have prevailed on the question, although I did not know whether Hadi had secured any agreement among PKR leaders on the issue.

But this 2013 episode can be no justification for Hadi to hurl wild and reckless allegations of the DAP promoting Islamophobia.

I await Hadi’s response.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, 8th December 2022)

Hadi perlu menjelaskan tindakan tidak bertanggungjawabnya dalam membuat tuduhan liar bahawa DAP mempromosikan Islamofobia sedangkan Pemerhati Islamofobia OIC tidak melaporkan satu kes Islamofobia pun di Malaysia selepas memantau semua bentuk Islamofobia di dunia untuk setiap hari selama 15 tahun yang lepas?

Presiden PAS, Hadi Awang perlu menjelaskan tindakan tidak bertanggungjawabnya dalam membuat tuduhan liar bahawa DAP mempromosikan Islamofobia sedangkan Pemerhati Islamofobia Pertubuhan Kerjasama Islam (OIC) tidak melaporkan satu kes Islamofobia pun di Malaysia selepas memantau semua bentuk Islamofobia di dunia untuk setiap hari selama 15 tahun yang lepas?

Saya telah meneliti 14 laporan mengenai Islamofobia yang diterbitkan oleh Pemerhati Islamofobia OIC sejak 2007, yang merupakan laporan berwibawa tentang masalah Islamofobia di dunia, tetapi saya tidak dapat menemui satu kes Islamofobia di Malaysia yang dilaporkan dalam laporan di 15 tahun lepas.

Saya tidak fikir Islam mengajar pendakwah dan pengikutnya untuk bercakap bohong dan dusta, dan menjadi kewajipan kepada Hadi Awang, selaku Presiden PAS, untuk menjelaskan perkara tuduhannya ini.

Seperti yang diceritakan oleh seorang wartawan veteran, Terence Netto, dua hari lepas, pada tahun 2013 Hadi mengetuai sekumpulan pemimpin PAS untuk bertemu dan menggesa Anwar Ibrahim untuk memberi laluan kepada pilihan PAS supaya Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah menjadi calon perdana menteri pilihan mereka – sekiranya Pakatan Rakyat menang dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 (PRU13).

Hadi dan “kumpulan pemimpin PAS” ini juga bertemu saya tetapi saya enggan bersetuju, dengan menyatakan bahawa DAP akan mematuhi komitmen kami bahawa Anwar Ibrahim kekal sebagai calon Perdana Menteri Malaysia. Jika tidak, DAP dengan PAS, sebagai dua daripada tiga parti-parti komponen dalam gabungan Pakatan Rakyat, akan menang dalam persoalan mengenai isu ini, walaupun saya tidak tahu sama ada Hadi telah memperoleh sebarang persetujuan di kalangan pemimpin PKR mengenai isu itu.

Tetapi episod 2013 ini tidak boleh menjadi alasan untuk Hadi melemparkan tuduhan liar dan melulu yang mengatakan DAP sebagai mempromosikan Islamofobia.

Saya menunggu jawapan Hadi.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Petaling Jaya pada Khamis, 8 Disember 2022)

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Is there an irresistible “green tide” phenomenon in Malaysia which will make Malaysia a complete Islamic state by the 17th General Election before 2032?

Is there an irresistible “green tide” phenomenon in Malaysia which will make Malaysia a complete Islamic state by the 17th General Election before 2032?

This is the prediction of some analysts who see Malaysia inexorably heading in that direction.

I am not so pessimistic although the “green tide” phenomenon in the 15th Malaysian general elections had caught all political parties, analysts, and opinion polls by surprise.

I believe that the “green tide” phenomenon in the 15th General Election causing PAS to emerge as the biggest parliamentary group in Parliament with 44 Members of Parliament stood on sand and is not invincible, as the “green tide” phenomenon was among others, the creation of the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion, and the unexpected result of the lowering of the voting age to 18, adding 1.4 million new votes to the electoral roll.

There are good and bad signs in the 15th General Election — the rejection of the “BOSSku” phenomenon and to condemn the degradations of Malaysia into a kleptocracy, but the succumbing to the politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion for lack of a counter narrative.

Whether the “green tide” phenomenon becomes an irresistible wave will depend on the Anwar unity government’s ability to implement reformasi policies and programmes to reset nation-building policies and principles to return to the vision of the nation’s founders, which included the first four UMNO Presidents, to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world” by building a first-rate world-class Malaysian nation in various fields of human endeavour and stopping the national decline in the past six decades.

Malaysia must learn from the lessons of the 15th General Elections and not allow Malaysian democracy to be hijacked by the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion.

This is why it is imperative that the Anwar unity government must deal with the problem of disinformation and polarisation of the social media, which pose an existential threat to Malaysian parliamentary democracy and create a clean, honest and incorruptible government.

We must ensure that in the 16th General Election, Malaysia does not have to grapple with the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion and that Malaysia has learnt from the lessons of the 15th General Election.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Friday, 9th December 2022)

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The state general elections in six states will be a crucial test whether the “green tide” in the 15th general election is invincible or a fluke shot

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The state general elections in six states — Penang, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Kelantan, Terengganu, and Kedah — will be a crucial test whether the “green tide” in the 15th General Election is invincible or a fluke shot notwithstanding the 16,260-vote majority win of Perikatan Nasional (PN) candidate in Padang Serai parliamentary constituency on Wednesday.

An analysis of the three parliamentary seats won by PN in Penang — two by PAS and one by Bersatu — shows that the combined votes of the two Anwar unity government candidates exceeded the votes of the PN candidates.

In Permatang Pauh seat, the combined votes of the PH-PKR candidate, Nurul Izzah Anwar who got 32,638 votes and the BN-UMNO candidate, Mohd Zaidi Mohd Said who secured 16,971 votes totalled 49,337 votes — more than the winning vote of the PN-PAS candidate, Mohd Fawwaz Mat Jan who secured 37,638 votes.

In Kepala Batas seat, the combined votes of BN-UMNO candidate Reezal Merican Naina Merican who got 25,737 votes and the MUDA candidate, Danial Abdul Majeed who got 14,214 votes came to 39,951 votes — more than the winning vote of the PN-PAS candidate, Mastura Muhammad who secured 28,604 votes.

The same story applies to the Tasek Gelugor seat where the combined votes of the BN-UMNO candidate Muhammad Yusuff Mohd Noor who won 18,684 votes and the PH-Amanah candidate Nik Abdul Razak Nik Md Ridzuan who won 16,547 votes came to 35,237 votes — more than the winning vote of the PN-Bersatu candidate, Wan Saifulrudin Wan Jan who won 31,116 votes.

Political analyst Bridget Welsh estimated that Pakatan Harapan (PH) won approximately 11 per cent of the Malay voters in Peninsular Malaysia but former MP for Bangi and former Deputy Minister for International Trade and industry, Ong Kian Ming, estimated that PH’s Malay support would be higher than 11 percent in states where it is the incumbent state government — Selangor (52.4 percent), Penang (59.4 percent), and Negeri Sembilan (44.4 percent).

I have never been a believer of the inevitability of any movement even since the time in the fifties in the last century when there were those who believed in the inevitability of communism.

The future of the “green tide” in the 15th General Election will depend on whether effective measures are taken to end the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race and religion, and whether the Anwar unity government can make Malaysia great again by building a first-rate world-class Malaysian nation in various fields of human endeavour, including a clean, honest, and incorruptible government, and stopping the national decline in the past six decades.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Saturday, 10th December 2022)

Pilihan raya negeri di enam negeri akan menjadi ujian yang penting untuk melihat sama ada “gelombang hijau” dalam pilihan raya umum ke-15 ini benar-benar tidak dapat dihentikan atau hanyalah satu kebetulan

Pilihan raya negeri di enam negeri — Pulau Pinang, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Kelantan, Terengganu, dan Kedah — akan menjadi ujian yang penting untuk menentukan sama ada “gelombang hijau” yang disaksikan dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 ini benar-benar satu kuasa yang hebat atau hanyalah satu kebetulan, tanpa perlu mengambil kira kemenangan Perikatan Nasional (PN) dengan majoriti 16,260 undi di kerusi parlimen Padang Serai pada hari Rabu yang lepas.

Satu analisis tiga kerusi parlimen yang dimenangi oleh PN di Pulau Pinang — dua dimenangi PAS dan satu oleh Bersatu — menunjukkan yang gabungan undi yang diraih oleh calon kerajaan perpaduan Anwar melebihi jumlah undi yang diraih PN di kerusi-kerusi ini.

Di Permatang Pauh, jumlah undi yang diraih oleh calon PH-PKR, Nurul Izzah Anwar, yang mendapat 32,638 undi dan calon BN-UMNO, Mohd Zaidi Mohd Said, yang mendapat 16,971 undi, berjumlah sebanyak 49,337 undi — lebih dari undi yang diterima oleh calon PN-PAS, Mohd Fawwaz Mat Jan, yang menang dengan 37,638 undi.

Di Kepala Batas, jumlah undi yang diraih oleh calon BN-UMNO, Reezal Merican Naina Merican, yang mendapat 25,737 undi dan calon MUDA, Danial Abdul Majeed, yang menerima 14,214 undi, berjumlah sebanyak 39,951 undi — lebih dari undi yang diterima oleh calon PN-PAS, Mastura Muhammad yang menang dengan 28,604 undi.

Kisah yang sama juga di Tasek Gelugor di mana jumlah undi yang diterima calon BN-UMNO, Muhammad Yusuff Mohd Noor yang meraih 18,684 undi dan calon PH-Amanah, Nik Abdul Razak Nik Md Ridzuan, yang mendapat 16,547 undi berjumlah 35,237 undi — lebih dari undi yang diterima oleh calon PN-Bersatu, Wan Saifulrudin Wan Jan, yang menang dengan 31,116 undi.

Penganalisis politik, Bridget Welsh, menjangkakan yang Pakatan Harapan memenangi kira-kira 11 peratus undi pengundi Melayu di Semenanjung Malaysia, tetapi mantan Ahli Parlimen Bangi dan mantan Timbalan Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri, Ong Kian Ming, menganggarkan yang sokongan orang Melayu terhadap PH mungkin lebih tinggi dari 11 peratus di negeri-negeri di mana PH menjadi kerajaan negeri — Selangor (52.4 peratus), Pulau Pinang (59.4 peratus), dan Negeri Sembilan (44.4 peratus).

Saya tidak pernah percaya bahawa ada apa-apa gerakan yang boleh dikatakan sebagai tidak dapat dielakkan, sejak dari tahun 50-an dalam abad yang lepas di mana ada mereka yang cuba mengatakan komunisme adalah satu gerakan yang tidak dapat dielakkan.

Masa hadapan “gelombang hijau” dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 akan bergantung kepada sama ada tindakan berkesan diambil untuk menghentikan politik toksik penipuan, syak wasangka, kebencian, perkauman, dan keagamaan, dan sama ada kerajaan perpaduan Anwar Ibrahim dapat menjadikan Malaysia hebat sekali lagi dengan membina sebuah negara bangsa Malaysia yang cemerlang dalam pelbagai bidang yang diceburi umat manusia, termasuklah dengan mempunyai sebuah kerajaan yang bersih, jujur, tidak korup, dan menghentikan kemunduran yang disaksikan negara dalam enam dekad yang lepas.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Sabtu, 10 Disember 2022)

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There is no such thing as an irresistible “green tide” phenomenon

I do not subscribe to the view that there is an irresistible “green tide” phenomenon in Malaysia that will transform the country into a complete Islamic state by 2032 in the 17th General Election (GE17), just as I had not endorsed the theory in the fifties in the last century of the inevitability of the victory of communism in the world.

There is no such thing as the inevitability of events or a theory, whether in international affairs or national politics.

Today, the Communist Chinese President Xi Jinping had been 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.

The citing of the rise of “political Islam” as the reason for Sabah Bersatu leaders leaving Bersatu and Perikatan Nasional (PN) will have an impact on future general elections.

Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) secretary general Datuk Masidi Manjun said that the increasing racial and religious rhetoric of some Peninsular based parties especially in the run up to the 15th General Election (GE15) was inconsistent with the values of a multi-racial and multi-religious Sabah and Sarawak.

He said: “Many tend to forget that many Sabahans as well as Sarawakians have family members of different religious faiths. It’s difficult for GRS or for that matter many Sabahans, to accept what is now marketed as ‘political Islam’.

“In fact, the current unity government under Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim best represents the making of an administration that embraces the interests of all Malaysians, whilst protecting the position of Islam, Bumiputeras, Sabah and Sarawak,” he said.

Masidi said that inter-faith and interracial marriages in Sabah was common, and people here lived in harmony for centuries.

“We don’t identify ourselves by our ethnicity or religion,” he said adding that Islam is a universal religion that preaches inclusivity and respect for all beliefs and cultures.

“It is a religion of compassion and humanity that respects the rights of others including that of minorities.

“As a Muslim, I am proud of my religion, but I do not think any party can claim to be a genuine representative of this great religion,” he said.

The Sabah development improves the chances of the Anwar unity government to last five years to provide the breathing space to stop the national decline in the last six decades which turned Malaysia from a first-rate world-class nation into a second-rate mediocre country, threatening Malaysia to end up as a third-rate failed, divided, and kleptocratic state on Malaysia’s Centennial in four decades’ time, causing a turnaround of the nation’s fortunes and to regain our original aspiration to be among the top nations in the world in various fields of human endeavour.

The 15th General Election results also do not bear out an irresistible “green tide” phenomenon.

In Johore for instance, where Perikatan Nasional won two seats in Pagoh and Mersing, Muhyiddin Yassin would have lost in Pagoh, as his vote of 24,986 votes was less than the combined votes of the two Anwar unity government candidates i.e. 29,405 comprising PKR’s 14,979 votes and UMNO’s 14,426 votes.

The same applies in Mersing, where Bersatu’s Muhammad Islanuddin Abas won 21,066 which is less than the combined votes of 26,542 votes comprising UMNO candidate Abdul Latif Bandi Nor Sebandi’s 18,729 and DAP candidate Fatin Zulaikha Zaidi’s 6,813 votes.

Two of three PN parliamentary seats in Malacca would have been lost if there is a Anwar unity government candidate, as the PN votes were less than the combined votes of the PKR and UMNO candidates.

Similarly, PN would have lost in the Federal Territory seats of Putrajaya and Labuan, as the PN votes in these two seats were less than the combined votes of PH and UMNO candidates.

Can Malaysia get out of the trajectory of a failed, divided and kleptocratic state to become one of the nations admired by the world for our ability to leverage on the values and virtues of the four great civilisations which meet in confluence in Malaysia?

This is the greatest challenge of the Anwar unity government — to end the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race and religion, and to make Malaysia great again with a clean, honest, incorruptible, and visionary Malaysia.

I do not subscribe to the view that there is an irresistible “green tide” phenomenon in Malaysia that will transform the country into a complete Islamic state by 2032 in the 17th General Election (GE17), just as I had not endorsed the theory in the fifties in the last century of the inevitability of the victory of communism in the world.

There is no such thing as the inevitability of events or a theory, whether in international affairs or national politics.

Today, the Communist Chinese President Xi Jinping had been 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.

The citing of the rise of “political Islam” as the reason for Sabah Bersatu leaders leaving Bersatu and Perikatan Nasional (PN) will have an impact on future general elections.

Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) secretary general Datuk Masidi Manjun said that the increasing racial and religious rhetoric of some Peninsular based parties especially in the run up to the 15th General Election (GE15) was inconsistent with the values of a multi-racial and multi-religious Sabah and Sarawak.

He said: “Many tend to forget that many Sabahans as well as Sarawakians have family members of different religious faiths. It’s difficult for GRS or for that matter many Sabahans, to accept what is now marketed as ‘political Islam’.

“In fact, the current unity government under Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim best represents the making of an administration that embraces the interests of all Malaysians, whilst protecting the position of Islam, Bumiputeras, Sabah and Sarawak,” he said.

Masidi said that inter-faith and interracial marriages in Sabah was common and people here lived in harmony for centuries.

“We don’t identify ourselves by our ethnicity or religion,” he said adding that Islam is a universal religion that preaches inclusivity and respect for all beliefs and cultures.

“It is a religion of compassion and humanity that respects the rights of others including that of minorities.

“As a Muslim, I am proud of my religion, but I do not think any party can claim to be a genuine representative of this great religion,” he said.

The Sabah development improves the chances of the Anwar unity government to last five years to provide the breathing space to stop the national decline in the last six decades which turned Malaysia from a first-rate world-class nation into a second-rate mediocre country, threatening Malaysia to end up as a third-rate failed, divided, and kleptocratic state on Malaysia’s Centennial in four decades’ time, causing a turnaround of the nation’s fortunes and to regain our original aspiration to be among the top nations in the world in various fields of human endeavour.

The 15th General Election results also do not bear out an irresistible “green tide” phenomenon.

In Johore for instance, where Perikatan Nasional won two seats in Pagoh and Mersing, Muhyiddin Yassin would have lost in Pagoh, as his vote of 24,986 votes was less than the combined votes of the two Anwar unity government candidates i.e. 29,405 comprising PKR’s 14,979 votes and UMNO’s 14,426 votes.

The same applies in Mersing, where Bersatu’s Muhammad Islanuddin Abas won 21,066 which is less than the combined votes of 26,542 votes comprising UMNO candidate Abdul Latif Bandi Nor Sebandi’s 18,729 and DAP candidate Fatin Zulaikha Zaidi’s 6,813 votes.

Two of three PN parliamentary seats in Malacca would have been lost if there is a Anwar unity government candidate, as the PN votes were less than the combined votes of the PKR and UMNO candidates.

Similarly, PN would have lost in the Federal Territory seats of Putrajaya and Labuan, as the PN votes in these two seats were less than the combined votes of PH and UMNO candidates.

Can Malaysia get out of the trajectory of a failed, divided, and kleptocratic state to become one of the nations admired by the world for our ability to leverage on the values and virtues of the four great civilisations which meet in confluence in Malaysia?

This is the greatest challenge of the Anwar unity government — to end the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion and to make Malaysia great again with a clean, honest, incorruptible, and visionary Malaysia.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on Sunday, 11th December 2022)

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Challenge to DAP and PH to do better in the state general election next year than the 15th Parliamentary general election

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I am happy to be here tonight for quadruple celebrations:

Firstly, to Ramkarpal Singh for his stunning 63,112 vote-majority and re-election as the MP for Bukit Gelugor.

Secondly, again to Ramkarpal Singh for being appointed the Deputy Minister for Law in the Prime Minister’s Department.

Thirdly, for Lim Hui Ying, who is with us tonight, for her appointment as Deputy Education Minister.

Law and educational reforms are important subjects if we are to stop the national decline in the last six decades and regain our position as a first-rate world-class nation.

There is a fourth reason for celebration tonight: I congratulate Penang DAP for the great victories in the 15th General Election where four of the seven DAP-Pakatan Harapan (PH) candidates won their seats with all their opposing candidates losing their deposits. The four candidates with the margin of victory are

Tanjong — Lim Hui Ying — 84.8% of the voter turnout.

Bukit Gelugor — Ramkarpal Singh — 82.7% of the vote.

Bagan — Lim Guan Eng — 81.3% of the vote.

Bukit Bendera — Syerleena Abdul Rashid — 78.9% of the vote.

While celebration is in order tonight, I must remind all DAP and PH leaders, members and supporters that the new political struggle to make Malaysia great again has only started.

The Penang state general election will be held next year, and I challenge DAP and PH to do better in the Penang state polls next year.

(Speech by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang at the DAP Bukit Gelugor parliamentary seat thanksgiving dinner held at the Hang Chiang High School Hall, Penang on Sunday, 11th December 2022 at 8 pm)

Cabaran kepada DAP dan PH untuk mencatat pencapaian yang lebih baik dalam pilihan raya negeri tahun hadapan berbanding dengan Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15

Saya gembira untuk bersama meraikan empat perkara malam ini.

Pertamanya, untuk meraikan RamKarpal Singh di atas kemenangan semulanya sebagai Ahli Parlimen Bukit Gelugor, dengan majoriti sebanyak 63,112 undi.

Kedua, sekali lagi untuk RamKarpal Singh, atas pelantikannya menjadi Timbalan Menteri Hal Ehwal Undang-undang di Jabatan Perdana Menteri.

Ketiga, untuk Lim Hui Ying, yang bersama kita pada malam ini, atas pelantikannya sebagai Timbalan Menteri Pendidikan.

Reformasi undang-undang dan pendidikan adalah perkara yang amat penting sekiranya kita ingin menghentikan kemunduran yang dihadapi negara dalam enam dekad yang lepas, dan sekiranya kita mahu mendapatkan semula kedudukan negara sebagai sebuah negara hebat yang bertaraf dunia.

Ada sebab keempat juga yang patut diraikan malam ini: Saya ingin mengucapkan tahniah kepada DAP Pulau Pinang di atas kemenangan besar dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, di mana empat dari tujuh calon DAP-Pakatan Harapan (PH) telah menang besar sehingga calon lawan mereka hilang deposit. Empat orang calon ini adalah:

Tanjong – Lim Hui Ying – meraih 84.8% undi yang dibuang

Bukit Gelugor – Ramkarpal Singh – 82.7% undi

Bagan – Lim Guan Eng – 81.3% undi

Bukit Bendera – Syerleena Abdul Rashid – 78.9% undi

Walaupun kita perlu meraikan kemenangan ini, saya juga ingin mengingatkan semua pemimpin, ahli-ahli, dan penyokong DAP dan PH yang perjuangan politik untuk menjadikan Malaysia hebat semula baru sahaja bermula.

Pilihan raya negeri Pulau Pinang bakal diadakan pada tahun hadapan, dan saya cabar DAP dan PH untuk mencatatkan prestasi yang lebih baik dalam pilihan raya ini pada tahun hadapan.

(Ucapan veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di majlis makan malam penghargaan parlimen DAP Bukit Gelugor yang diadakan di Dewan Sekolah Menengah Hang Chiang, Pulau Pinang, pada jam 8 malam, hari Ahad, 11 Disember 2022)

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Invitation to Malaysians from Perlis to Johore, as well as in Sabah and Sarawak, to cite an instance of anti-Malay or anti-Islam act of the Penang-led State Government in the 14 years from 2008 to 2022

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I remember September 1995, one of the darkest periods of DAP history, when the people of Bagan stood up and gave democracy a new lease of life at a time when democracy was in peril and DAP was in trauma after a dismal electoral setback in the 9th General Election, giving the DAP by-election candidate, Lim Hock Seng, a 11,802-vote majority, 100 times the majority which DAP secured four months earlier in the April 1995 general election.

Twenty-seven years later, in the November 19, 2022 15th Malaysian Parliamentary general election, the people of Bagan again stood up and re-elected Lim

Guan Eng as the MP for Bagan with a 55,797-vote majority — with the three other contending candidates from MCA, Gerakan, and Pejuang all losing their deposits.

I was not a candidate in the 15th General Election but I have been to eight states and clocked some 15,000 kilometres in the two weeks of the election campaign, and everywhere I went, I did not come across any anti-Malay, anti-Chinese, anti-Indian, anti-Dayak, anti-Kadazan or anti-Muslim, anti-Buddhist, anti-Hindu, anti-Christianity sentiment on the ground, confirming that Malaysians are the most tolerant and sensitive of people.

But during the 15th general election, there were political parties and personalities who wanted Malaysians to believe that the Malays and Islam were under threat and faced extinction.

Why was this so? Who wanted to threaten the Malays or wipe out Islam?

Penang had been under a DAP-led government for 14 years from 2008 to 2022.

I invite Malaysians from Perlis to Johore, as well as in Sabah and Sarawak, to cite an instance of anti-Malay or anti-Islam act of the DAP-led Penang State Government from 2008 to 2022 to put it right?

I await the answer for I also want to know what were the anti-Malay or anti-Islam acts of the DAP-led Penang State Government in the 14 years from 2008 to 2022.

(Speech by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang at the DAP Bagan thanksgiving dinner in Bagan on Sunday, 11th December 2022 at 9.30 pm)

Jemputan kepada rakyat Malaysia, dari Perlis ke Johor, dan juga dari Sabah dan Sarawak, untuk memberikan contoh tindakan anti-Melayu atau anti-Islam yang pernah dibuat oleh Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang dalam 14 tahun sejak dari tahun 2008 sehingga tahun 2022

Saya masih ingat September 1995 — yang merupakan tempoh yang gelap dalam sejarah DAP — apabila rakyat di Bagan bangkit dan memberikan demokrasi harapan baharu ketika mana proses demokrasi sedang menderita dan DAP sedang berhadapan dengan trauma selepas kekalahan besar dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-9, dengan memberikan calon pilihan raya kecil DAP, Lim Hock Seng, kemenangan dengan majoriti 11,802 undi, 100 kali jumlah majoriti yang diraih DAP empat sebelum itu dalam Pilihan Raya Umum April 1995.

27 tahun kemudian, dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 pada 19 November 2022, rakyat Bagan sekali lagi bangkit dan mengundi Lim Guan Eng sebagai Ahli Parlimen Bagan dengan majoriti 55,797 undi — dengan tiga lagi calon lain dari MCA, Gerakan, dan Pejuang kehilangan deposit mereka.

Saya bukanlah seorang calon dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, tetapi saya telah ke lapan negeri dan mencatatkan perjalanan kira-kira 15,000 kilometer dalam tempoh berkempen selama dua minggu. Ke mana-mana sahaja yang saya pergi, saya tidak melihat apa-apa sentimen anti Melayu, Cina, India, Dayak, Kadazan atau sentimen anti Islam, Buddha, Hindu, atau Kristian, mengesahkan yang rakyat Malaysia sebenarnya memang sebuah masyarakat yang bertoleransi dan sensitif.

Tetapi, dalam tempoh berkempen PRU-15 ini, terdapat parti-parti politik dan tokoh-tokoh yang mahu rakyat Malaysia untuk berfikiran yang orang Melayu dan orang Islam sedang terancam dan bakal terhapus.

Mengapakah begini? Siapakah yang mengancam orang Melayu atau ingin menghapuskan Islam?

Pulau Pinang telah berada di bawah kerajaan negeri pimpinan DAP untuk 14 tahun dari tahun 2008 sehingga 2022.

Saya menjemput mana-mana rakyat Malaysia, dari Perlis ke Johor, dan juga kepada mereka yang dari Sabah atau Sarawak, untuk memberikan satu contoh tindakan anti Melayu atau Islam yang dilakukan oleh kerajaan negeri Pulau Pinang yang dipimpin DAP dari tahun 2008 sehingga tahun 2022 ini supaya ia dapat diperbetulkan.

Saya juga akan menanti jawapannya kerana saya juga ingin tahu sekiranya ada tindakan yang bersifat anti Melayu atau Islam oleh kerajaan negeri Pulau Pinang pimpinan DAP selama 14 tahun yang lepas ini.

(Ucapan veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di majlis makan malam penghargaan parlimen DAP Bagan pada jam 9:30 malam, hari Ahad, 11 Disember 2022)

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Six survival tests for the Anwar Ibrahim unity government in its first year in office

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The question uppermost in Malaysians’ minds is whether the Anwar Ibrahim unity government will last five years.

There are five survival tests for the Anwar Ibrahim unity government in its first year in office.

They are:

The election of the Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat on 19th December 2022.

The passing of the vote of confidence motion in Anwar Ibrahim as the Prime Minister of Malaysia in Parliament on 20th December 2022.

The UMNO General Assembly on January 11-14, 2023 to elect new office-bearers;

Passage in Parliament of the Motion of Thanks for the Royal Address at the Opening of Parliament, which in effect, is the government’s policy programme for the year; and

Approval for the 2023 Budget.

If the Anwar Ibrahim unity government can survive these five tests in the next few months, it will then have to face the sixth test — the general elections in six states of Penang, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Kedah, Kelantan, and Terengganu.

Perikatan Nasional (PN) will do its utmost to make gains in these six states to topple the Anwar Ibrahim unity Federal Government.

In fact, the PN Negri Sembilan Chairman had declared that the Negri Sembilan PN is aiming to win at least 19 out of the 36 state seats to enable the coalition to form a state government.

Pakatan Harapan (PH) cannot take lightly the PN threat, whether in Negeri Sembilan or the other five states, and I welcome the announcement by the Pakatan Harapan secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail that PH will conduct roadshows beginning early next year in preparation for the elections in six states that did not dissolve their assemblies concurrently with the 15th general election (GE15).

Saifuddin, who is also the home affairs minister, said it is a “very important” task to convince voters in the six states to continue to support the Anwar Ibrahim unity government formed after the recent GE15.

Penang Chief Minister, Chow Kon Yeow, has predicted that PH could lose six or seven seats in the upcoming state polls based on the trend seen in last month’s general election.

Although this would not threaten Harapan’s control of the state, the coalition’s hold on Penang would not be as formidable as before.

Pakatan Harapan should draw up a programme to ensure that far from losing seats to PN, PH can do better in the six states than its performance in the 15th General Election.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Tuesday, 13th December 2022)

Enam ujian kelangsungan hayat kerajaan perpaduan Anwar Ibrahim dalam tahun pertamanya

Persoalan utama yang berlegar dalam fikiran rakyat Malaysia hari ini adalah sama ada kerajaan perpaduan Anwar Ibrahim dapat bertahan selama lima tahun.

Terdapat ujian kelangsungan hayat untuk kerajaan perpaduan Anwar Ibrahim ini dalam tahun pertamanya.

Ujian-ujian ini adalah:

Pemilihan Yang di Pertua Dewan Rakyat pada 19 Disember 2022.

Kelulusan usul percaya terhadap Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri di Parlimen pada 20 Disember 2022.

Perhimpunan Agung UMNO pada 11 hingga 14 Januari untuk melantik pimpinan baharu.

Kelulusan Usul Menjunjung Titah Diraja semasa pembukaan Parlimen, yang merupakan dasar-dasar kerajaan untuk tahun tersebut; dan

Kelulusan Belanjawan 2023

Sekiranya kerajaan perpaduan Anwar Ibrahim dapat bertahan berhadapan dengan lima ujian ini dalam beberapa bulan yang akan datang, kerajaan ini akan berhadapan dengan ujian keenam — pilihan raya umum di enam negeri, Pulau Pinang, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Kedah, Kelantan, dan Terengganu.

Perikatan Nasional (PN) akan mencuba sedaya upaya untuk mencatatkan kejayaan di enam-enam negeri ini untuk menumbangkan kerajaan perpaduan Anwar Ibrahim.

Malah, Pengerusi PN Negeri Sembilan telah mengumumkan yang PN Negeri Sembilan menyasarkan untuk menang sekurang-kurangnya 19 dari 36 kerusi DUN untuk membolehkan mereka membentuk kerajaan negeri.

Pakatan Harapan (PH) tidak boleh memandang ringan ancaman PN ini, sama ada di Negeri Sembilan atau di lima negeri-negeri lain. Saya alu-alukan pengumuman setiausaha agung Pakatan Harapan, Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, untuk PH mengadakan jelajah bermula awal tahun hadapan sebagai persediaan untuk menghadapi pilihan raya di enam negeri yang belum membubarkan Dewan Undangan Negeri mereka semasa Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 dijalankan sebelum ini.

Saifuddin yang juga merupakan Menteri Dalam Negeri, mengatakan bahawa menjadi satu tanggungjawab yang “amat penting” untuk meyakinkan para pengundi di enam negeri-negeri ini untuk terus menyokong kerajaan perpaduan Anwar Ibrahim yang dibentuk selepas PRU-15.

Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Chow Kon Yeow, telah menjangkakan yang PH mungkin bakal kehilangan enam atau tujuh kerusi dalam pilihan raya negeri yang akan datang berdasarkan trend yang ditunjukkan dalam pilihan raya umum pada bulan lepas.

Walaupun perkara ini tidak mengancam kawalan Harapan ke atas negeri tersebut, pegangan gabungan ini terhadap Pulau Pinang tidak akan menjadi sekuat sebelum ini.

Pakatan Harapan perlu merangka program untuk memastikan supaya PH tidak kehilangan kerusi kepada PN, sebaliknya, mencatatkan prestasi yang lebih baik di enam negeri ini berbanding dengan prestasi dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 sebelum ini.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Selasa, 13 Disember 2022)

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Malaysia must be better prepared for future pandemics — the reason why there should be an inquiry why Malaysia was so unprepared for the Covid-19 pandemic and to learn the expensive lessons of the Covid-19 epidemic

(Versi BM)

After two days of daily three-digit new Covid-19 cases, Malaysia has reverted to a daily four-digit new Covid-19 cases yesterday, although it was the lowest four-digit daily new Covid-19 cases in history.

The daily new Covid-19 cases and daily new deaths for the past week were:

Date

Cases

Deaths

7.12.2022

1,683

6

8.12.2022

1,616

4

9.12.2022

1,592

6

10.12.2022

1,315

5

11.12.2022

867

10

12.12.2022

809

6

13.12.2022

1,040

9

The former Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar had done a fairly good job as Health Minister reducing the Covid-19 statistics from 20,897 daily new cases and 282 daily new deaths on August 31, 2021 to 2,340 daily new cases to single-digit daily new deaths on August 31, 2022.

Lets hope that under the new Health Minister, Dr. Zaliha Mustafa, on the National Day in some eight months’ time, the daily new Covid-19 cases can come down to double-digit numbers while keeping the daily new Covid-19 deaths to low single-digit numbers.

It is most shocking that during the 15th General Election campaign, the Perikatan Nasional Chairman Muhyiddin Yassin and the first “backdoor” Prime Minister could claim that his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic was to his credit and that only a few Malaysians died during the pandemic.

On the 63rd National Day on 31st August 2020, we had a cumulative total of 9,340 Covid-19 cases and 127 Covid-19 deaths.

On 64th National Day on 31st August 2021, we had close to 1.75 million Covid-19 cases and 16,500 Covid-19 deaths — a phenomenal increase of 187 times for Covid-19 cases and another phenomenal increase of 130 times for Covid-19 deaths.

Is this the credit that the first “backdoor” Prime Minister was claiming?

On the 65th National Day on 31st August 2022, the total number of Covid-19 cases had gone up to 4,782,624 cases and a total number of 36,225 deaths.

Khairy did a good job in reducing the daily cases of Covid-19 in 12 months from 20,897 cases on August 31, 2021 to 2,340 on August 31, 2022.

A look at the Covid-19 statistics of the other ASEAN nations will show there is a need for a study to understand why we have done so poorly in our response to the Covid-19 pandemic as to be better prepared for other pandemic that may afflict the globe in the future.

In terms of total Covid-19 cases, Malaysia is ranked No. 27th in the world while the other ASEAN nations are ranked Indonesia (20), Philippines (37), Thailand (31), and Singapore (45), with the following statistics yesterday:

Rank

Country

Total Covid-19 cases

Total Covid-19 deaths

(20)

Indonesia

6,702,132

330,695

(27)

Malaysia

5,012,483

36,778

(31)

Thailand

4,715,489

33,392

(37)

Philippines

4,050,866

64,921

(45)

Singapore

2,183,605

1,708

Malaysia must be better prepared for future pandemics.

There should be an inquiry why Malaysia was so unprepared for the Covid-19 pandemic and learn the expensive lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Wednesday, 14th December 2022)

Malaysia perlu lebih bersedia untuk berhadapan dengan pandemik dalam masa hadapan — perkara ini menjadi sebab utama mengapa perlu ada siasatan untuk mengkaji mengapa negara kita tidak bersedia untuk berhadapan dengan pandemik Covid-19 dan juga untuk membolehkan kita belajar dari Covid-19

Selepas dua hari mencatatkan kes baharu Covid-19 dalam julat tiga angka, Malaysia telah kembali kepada jumlah kes harian dalam julat empat angka semalam, walaupun kita masih menyaksikan jumlah kes harian dalam julat empat angka yang terendah dalam sejarah.

Jumlah kes harian dan kematian harian akibat Covid-19 untuk minggu lepas adalah:

Tarikh

Jumlah kes

Jumlah kematian

7.12.2022

1,683

6

8.12.2022

1,616

4

9.12.2022

1,592

6

10.12.2022

1,315

5

11.12.2022

867

10

12.12.2022

809

6

13.12.2022

1,040

9

Bekas Menteri Kesihatan, Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar, telah menjalankan tugas yang baik sebagai Menteri Kesihatan untuk mengurangkan statistik Covid-19 dari 20,987 kes baharu dan 282 kematian akibat Covid-19 pada 31 Ogos 2021 kepada 2,340 kes baharu dengan kematian akibat Covid-19 dalam julat satu angka pada 31 Ogos 2022.

Kita harap menjelang hari kebangsaan dalam kira-kira lapan bulan dari sekarang dengan Menteri Kesihatan baharu, Dr. Zaliha Mustafa, jumlah kes harian Covid-19 akan menurun kepada julat dua angka dengan kadar kematian dalam julat satu angka yang rendah.

Semasa Hari Kebangsaan ke-63 pada 31 Ogos 2020, Malaysia mencatatkan sejumlah 9,340 kes Covid-19 dengan 127 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Ketika Hari Kebangsaan ke-64 pada 31 Ogos 2021 pula, kita telah mencatatkan hampir 1.75 juta kes dan kira-kira 16,500 kematian terkumpul — peningkatan luar biasa sebanyak 187 kali ganda untuk jumlah jangkitan dan peningkatan sebanyak 130 kali ganda untuk kadar kematian.

Adakah ini yang cuba dibanggakan oleh Perdana Menteri “pintu belakang” yang pertama?

Pada Hari Kebangsaan ke-65 pada 31 Ogos 2022, jumlah kes terkumpul Covid-19 telah meningkat kepada 4,782,624 kes dengan sejumlah 36,225 kematian.

Khairy telah menunjukkan prestasi yang agak baik dalam mengurangkan jumlah kes harian Covid-19, dari 20,897 kes pada 31 Ogos 2021 kepada 2,340 kes pada 31 Ogos 2022.

Melihat kepada statistik Covid-19 negara-negara ASEAN yang lain, kita dapat lihat keperluan untuk mengkaji mengapa negara kita mencatatkan prestasi yang sebegitu buruk dan bagaimana kita boleh bersedia dengan lebih baik untuk berhadapan dengan apa-apa pandemik yang mungkin akan terjadi pada masa hadapan.

Dari segi jumlah kes terkumpul Covid-19, Malaysia berada di tempat ke-27 di dunia, manakala negara-negara ASEAN lain didahului oleh Indonesia (20), dan diikuti oleh Filipina (37), Thailand (31), dan Singapura (45), dengan statistik berikut setakat semalam:

Kedudukan

Negara

Jumlah kes

Jumlah kematian

(20)

Indonesia

6,702,132

330,695

(27)

Malaysia

5,012,483

36,778

(31)

Thailand

4,715,489

33,392

(37)

Philippines

4,050,866

64,921

(45)

Singapore

2,183,605

1,708

Malaysia perlu lebih bersedia untuk berhadapan dengan pandemik masa hadapan.

Kita perlukan siasatan untuk mengkaji mengapa negara kita sebegitu tidak bersedia untuk berhadapan dengan pandemik Covid-19 dan pelajari pengajaran dari pandemik ini.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Rabu, 14 Disember 2022)

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Code Blue report on the Ipoh GH ETD overcrowding crisis should be catalyst for two major Health Ministry initiatives — immediate short-term solution to all hospitals in post-Covid-19 pandemic era and long-term focus for Ministry to promote health of Malaysians and not just to deal with hospitals and diseases

(Versi BM)

The Code Blue report on the Ipoh General Hospital overcrowding crisis at its Emergency and Trauma Department (ETD) should be the catalyst for two major Health Ministry initiatives — immediate short-term solution to all overcrowding crisis in all hospitals in the post-Covid-19 pandemic era and long-term focus for the Ministry to promote the health of Malaysians and not just to deal with hospitals and diseases.

Will Dr. Zaliha Mustafa be the first Health Minister in the country who is promoting the health of all Malaysians and not merely looking after hospitals and diseases in the country, where the test is not to build more hospitals and clinics but to make them less and less necessary?

That is the challenge before the new Health Minister.

We had failed the Covid-19 pandemic test, as ASEAN was regarded as one of the worst regions during the Covid-19 pandemic, and Malaysia the worst country in the region.

In the last month of 2021, in the 30 days from Dec. 1–Dec. 30, Malaysia had 20 times Covid-19 cases and four times Covid-19 deaths of Indonesia, which has more than eight times the population of Malaysia.

As a result of the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan leaders in September 2021, we ended in Malaysia the longest Covid-19 wave in the world and are now back to the pre-Emergency days in 2020.

Yesterday we recorded 1,241 Covid-19 cases and six deaths, while Indonesia registered 2,136 Covid-19 cases and 24 Covid-19 deaths. We had two days of three-digit Covid-19 cases in the past week.

This is why I suggested yesterday that Malaysia should study why we were so unprepared for the Covid-19 pandemic to learn the expensive lessons to ensure that Malaysia can be prepared to future pandemics.

But that is not all. The Health Ministry should take the lead for a new change of thinking where the Health Ministry should promote the health of all Malaysians and not just be a Ministry of Hospitals and Diseases.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Thursday, 15th December 2022)

Laporan Code Blue mengenai krisis kesesakan di Jabatan Kecemasan Hospital Ipoh perlu menjadi pemangkin kepada dua inisiatif utama Kementerian Kesihatan — penyelesaian jangka pendek segera untuk semua hospital dalam era pasca Covid-19 dan rancangan jangka panjang Kementerian untuk memelihara kesihatan rakyat Malaysia dan bukan hanya untuk fokus kepada hospital dan penyakit

Laporan Code Blue mengenai krisis kesesakan di Jabatan Kecemasan Hospital Ipoh perlu menjadi pemangkin kepada dua inisiatif utama Kementerian Kesihatan — penyelesaian jangka pendek segera untuk semua hospital dalam era pasca Covid-19 dan rancangan jangka panjang Kementerian untuk memelihara kesihatan rakyat Malaysia dan bukan hanya untuk fokus kepada hospital dan penyakit.

Adakah Dr Zaliha Mustafa akan menjadi Menteri Kesihatan pertama di negara ini yang mengutamakan agenda kesihatan seluruh rakyat Malaysia dan bukan semata-mata menjaga hospital dan penyakit di negara ini, yang mana ujiannya adalah bukan untuk hanya membina lebih banyak hospital, sebaliknya, hospital akan semakin kurang diperlukan rakyat Malaysia?

Itulah cabaran yang kini dihadapi oleh Menteri Kesihatan baru kita.

Kita gagal dalam menghadapi ujian semasa pandemik Covid-19, di mana ASEAN dilihat sebagai salah satu kawasan yang paling terjejas teruk akibat wabak ini dan Malaysia pula dilihat sebagai negara yang paling terjejas di rantau ini.

Pada bulan terakhir 2021, dalam tempoh 30 hari dari 1 Disember ke 30 Disember, Malaysia mencatatkan 20 kali ganda lebih banyak kes Covid-19 dan empat kali ganda lebih banyak kematian akibat Covid-19 berbanding dengan Indonesia, yang mempunyai lebih dari lapan kali ganda lebih ramai penduduk berbanding dengan Malaysia.

Hasil daripada memorandum persefahaman (MOU) kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) antara Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri dan pemimpin Pakatan Harapan pada September 2021, kita di Malaysia berjaya menamatkan gelombang penularan Covid-19 yang terpanjang di dunia dan kini kembali kepada situasi seperti sebelum darurat pada tahun 2020.

Semalam kita merekodkan 1,241 kes Covid-19 dan enam kematian, manakala Indonesia mencatatkan 2,136 kes Covid-19 dan 24 kematian akibat Covid-19. Untuk dua hari dalam minggu lepas, kita telah mencatatkan kes Covid-19 dalam julat tiga angka.

Itulah sebabnya saya cadangkan semalam supaya Malaysia mengkaji mengapa kita tidak bersedia menghadapi pandemik Covid-19 sebelum ini, untuk mempelajari pengajaran dari Covid-19 dan memastikan Malaysia boleh bersedia menghadapi pandemik pada masa hadapan.

Tetapi bukan setakat ini sahaja. Kementerian Kesihatan harus menerajui perubahan pemikiran baru di mana Kementerian Kesihatan perlu mempromosikan usaha untuk menjaga kesihatan semua rakyat Malaysia dan bukan hanya menjadi Kementerian Hospital dan Penyakit.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Khamis, 15 Disember 2022)

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I want Anwar Ibrahim to be the 10th Prime Minister for full five years to stop the national decline and to start the long process to make Malaysia great again

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There is a fake social media message in circulation which said: “Lim Kit Siang ramal Anwar akan tumbang dalam tempoh setahun”.

I never said such a thing.

I want Anwar Ibrahim to be the 10th Prime Minister for full five years to stop the national decline in various sectors of national life, and to start the long process to make Malaysia great again.

In fact, this is the message I sent Anwar on Nov. 24 when the Yang di-Pertuan Agong appointed him as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

The fake message is the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion which have divided and polarised plural Malaysia since the 15th General Election campaign and which must be dealt with sternly and strictly if Malaysia is not to end up as a basket case of disunity and polarisation.

The Ministers and leaders of the Anwar Ibrahim unity government must learn from the lessons of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government, and the most important lesson is that there are political personalities and forces which are trying to truncate the life of the unity government.

Except for a tainted few, the majority of the Pakatan Harapan Ministers and leaders had never expected the Sheraton Move conspiracy and had expected the government to last the full term of five years instead of being toppled in 22 months.

All the Ministers and leaders of the Anwar Ibrahim unity government must be fully aware that there are political personalities and forces which are trying to duplicate a Sheraton Move conspiracy and topple the Anwar unity government if possible before the full year is over.

All Ministers of the Anwar unity government must be aware of this plot and unlike their predecessors in the Pakatan Harapan Cabinet who thought they have five years to implement their mandate, be conscious of the possibility that they may be toppled and have the sense of urgency to carry out their institutional reforms in the shortest time possible.

The Anwar Ibrahim unity government had started well — from Anwar’s decision not to take the Prime Minister’s salary and the Cabinet agreement to a 20 per cent salary cut until the economy recovers; measures and approaches to attract quality investments, transition to a low-carbon economy, improve social protection, and strengthen fiscal resilience to ensure that economic structural reforms are implemented in an orderly manner; the decision to terminate all political appointments in government-linked bodies; the reduction of social lottery draws to just eight per year from 22 under the Perikatan Nasional government; probing the questionable funding sources of political partiers for the 15th General Election and institutional reforms to ensure that Malaysia has a good, clean, and honest government which is guided by the Rukun Negara.

But top of these tasks is to end the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race and religion which had bedevilled the country, and in fact, the world.

This is the time when Malaysia can show the world what could be done to end the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion which coupled with the information era and the social media become a powerful mix threatening to tear nations apart.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Thursday, December 16, 2022)

Saya mahu Anwar Ibrahim menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-10 untuk penggal penuh selama lima tahun untuk menghentikan kemunduran negara dan mulakan proses panjang untuk menjadikan Malaysia hebat semula

Terdapat mesej palsu di media sosial yang berlegar, mengatakan: “Lim Kit Siang ramal Anwar akan tumbang dalam tempoh setahun”.

Saya tidak pernah mengatakan sebegini.

Saya mahu Anwar Ibrahim menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-10 untuk penggal penuh selama lima tahun untuk menghentikan kemunduran negara dan mulakan proses panjang untuk menjadikan Malaysia hebat semula.

Malah, inilah mesej yang saya hantarkan kepada Anwar pada 24 November apabila Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di Pertuan Agong melantiknya menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10.

Mesej palsu ini adalah sebahagian daripada politik toksik penipuan, kebencian, syak wasangka, perkauman, dan keagamaan yang telah memecah belah negara sejak tempoh kempen Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, dan perkara ini perlulah ditangani dengan tegas sekiranya kita tidak mahu melihat Malaysia terus berpecah belah.

Para Menteri dan pemimpin dalam kerajaan perpaduan Anwar Ibrahim perlu menghayati dan belajar dari pengajaran kerajaan Pakatan Harapan selama 22 bulan sebelum ini, dan pengajaran yang paling penting sekali adalah, sentiasa akan ada kuasa dan personaliti politik yang akan mencuba sedaya upaya untuk memendekkan hayat kerajaan perpaduan ini.

Selain daripada beberapa orang, majoriti Menteri dan pemimpin Pakatan Harapan tidak menjangkakan konspirasi Langkah Sheraton dan telah menjangka kerajaan untuk kekal sehingga ke akhir penggal lima tahun dan bukannya ditumbangkan selepas 22 bulan.

Semua Menteri-menteri dan pemimpin dalam kerajaan perpaduan Anwar Ibrahim perlu sedar sepenuhnya yang ada personaliti dan kuasa-kuasa politik yang sedang mencuba untuk mengulangi konspirasi Langkah Sheraton untuk menumbangkan kerajaan perpaduan ini, sebolehnya supaya kerajaan perpaduan ini tidak bertahan setahun sekali pun.

Semua Menteri-menteri dalam kerajaan perpaduan perlu sedar mengenai rancangan ini — dan tidak seperti pendahulu mereka dalam Kabinet Pakatan Harapan sebelum ini yang memikirkan mereka ada lima tahun untuk melaksanakan mandat mereka — dan merasakan adanya keperluan untuk mereka melaksanakan reformasi institusi secepat mungkin.

Kerajaan perpaduan Anwar Ibrahim bermula dengan baik — dari keputusan Anwar untuk tidak mengambil gaji Perdana Menteri dan persetujuan Kabinet untuk memotong gaji sebanyak 20 peratus sehingga ekonomi pulih; langkah-langkah untuk menarik pelaburan yang berkualiti, peralihan kepada ekonomi rendah karbon, penambahbaikan jaringan perlindungan sosial, dan usaha menguatkan ketahanan fiskal untuk memastikan reformasi struktural ekonomi dilaksanakan dengan baik; keputusan untuk menamatkan semua lantikan politik dalam badan-badan berkaitan kerajaan; pengurangan jumlah cabutan khas loteri kepada lapan kali setahun berbanding 22 kali setahun di bawah kerajaan Perikatan Nasional; siasatan dana parti-parti politik dari sumber yang dipersoalkan dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15; dan juga reformasi-reformasi institusi untuk memastikan Malaysia mempunyai sebuah kerajaan yang baik, bersih, jujur, yang dipandu oleh Rukun Negara.

Tetapi, tugas yang paling utama masihlah usaha untuk menamatkan politik toksik penipuan, kebencian, syak wasangka, perkauman, dan keagamaan yang telah menghantui negara kita dan juga seluruh dunia.

Kini masanya untuk Malaysia menunjukkan kepada dunia mengenai apa yang boleh dilakukan untuk menghentikan politik toksik penipuan, kebencian, syak wasangka, perkauman, dan keagamaan yang akan menjadi gabungan bahaya yang boleh mengancam untuk memusnahkan negara apabila digabungkan dengan era maklumat dan teknologi media sosial.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Jumaat, 16 Disember 2022)

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Unity Government agreement signed yesterday will not only ensure Anwar unity government can last five years and political stability for the country, it is the basis for Malaysia to stop its national decline and to become a world-class nation again before Malaysia’s Centennial

I congratulate the Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim for the unity government agreement signed by political coalitions, political parties and individual MPs, as it will not only ensure that the Anwar unity government can last five years and political stability for the country, it is the basis for Malaysia to stop its national decline and to become a world-class nation again before Malaysia’s Centennial.

It will provide a reset for nation-building policies and a return to the nation-building principles as advocated by the first four UMNO Presidents and nation’s founding fathers like Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein, Hussein Onn, Tan Cheng Lock, Tan Siew Sin, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, and V.T. Sambanthan and enshrined in the Malaysian Constitution and the Rukun Negara — constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy, separation of powers, Islam as the official religion of the country, the rule of law, good governance, public integrity, meritocracy, respect for human rights, an end to the various injustices and inequalities in the country and the flowering of the various languages, religions and cultures in a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-cultural Malaysia.

Let the unity government agreement be an inspiration for every patriotic Malaysian, every political coalition and every political party, inside and outside Parliament, to work with one common mission and purpose — to make Malaysia great again and to fulfil the aspiration of Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.

This is work not of one Prime Minister or in one general election as it must be the mission of many Prime Ministers and many general elections, as it must be the Malaysian Dream of every Malaysian for the next three to four decades.

But let Malaysia start now under the leadership of the country’s 10th Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim.to begin the long process to make Malaysia great again.

Let Malaysians surprise the world that Malaysia is capable of anther “political miracle”, not only to start the new era of coalition politics on a right footing and fulfil Tunku Abdul Rahman’s aspiration for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”, but for Malaysia to be among the great world-class nations where there is minimal corruption, a tiger economy, world-class education standards, sustainable environment and Malaysia a show-case to the world as the confluence of four great civilisations — Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian, and Western.

We have a lot of work to do.

I fully agree with the Conference of Rulers that the Judicial Appointments Committee (JAC) should be free of influence from the Prime Minister and the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) has initiated the first step to separate the public prosecutor’s office from the Attorney-General’s Chambers.

The Anwar unity government has been marred by the Batang landslide tragedy, with 21 confirmed deaths so far and 12 people missing.

It should be an occasion for the government to study the call by Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the worst landslide disaster in Batang Kali as well as the larger question of risks arising from climate change.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, 17th December 2022)

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Will the Perikatan Nasional MPs vote in support, abstain, or oppose the vote of confidence in Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia?

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Will the Perikatan Nasional (PN) MPs vote to support, abstain, or oppose the vote of confidence in Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia?

It will be asking the PN MPs to do a very tall job to put nation before party, coalition, and self to support the vote of confidence in Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister in Parliament on Tuesday to ensure that there is clean, transparent, responsible, and stable political eco-system in Malaysia, which is the PN manifesto for the 15th General Election.

But the person who unconstitutionally and illegally suspended Parliament in fear of a vote of confidence motion by using the pretext of the Covid-19 pandemic and who tried to save his “backdoor” premiership with a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) is the last person to talk about Anwar lacking confidence to gain a majority in Parliament on a vote of confidence motion.

At least, the first thing that Anwar is doing as the 10th Prime Minister is to seek a vote of confidence in Parliament, emulating the third Prime Minister, Hussein Onn, in 1976.

In contrast, Muhyiddin did everything possible to avoid a vote of confidence vote in Parliament, to the extent of illegally and unconstitutionally suspending Parliament. The first “backdoor” Prime Minister would have continued to suspend Parliament in August 2021 if not stopped by the Yang di Pertuan Agong and the Conference of Rulers, and he chose to resign instead of having to face a vote of confidence in Parliament.

Where was the MP when Parliament was illegally and unconstitutionally suspended in 2021 but who now claimed that Malaysia is heading towards a dictatorship if there is a vote of confidence on the Prime Minister in Parliament on Tuesday? The MP concerned was then enjoying the perks and privileges of a Deputy Minister to bother about any vote of confidence in Parliament!

The least to expect of a respectable and honourable political coalition is to abstain in the vote-of-confidence in Parliament, but this is an equally tall order.

The strength of the opposition of Perikatan Nasional MPs to the vote of confidence motion in Parliament will be a reflection of the tenacity of efforts to create a Sheraton Move 2 scenario to topple the legitimate Anwar Ibrahim government to bring about a third “backdoor” government in Malaysian history.

There is no doubt that the PN leaders are doing their utmost to bring about a Sheraton Move 2, and they are talking in terms of months instead of years.

That is why they are so dead set against the unity government and the second MOA which could not only usher in a period of political stability but assure a five-year tenure for Anwar as Prime Minister of Malaysia, but be the basis for Malaysia to stop its national decline and to become a world-class nation again before Malaysia’s Centennial.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on Sunday, 18th December 2022)

Adakah Ahli-ahli Parlimen Perikatan Nasional akan mengundi untuk menyokong, berkecuali, atau membantah usul kepercayaan terhadap Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri ke-10?

Adakah Ahli-ahli Parlimen Perikatan Nasional (PN) akan mengundi untuk menyokong, berkecuali, atau membantah usul kepercayaan terhadap Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri ke-10?

Ahli-ahli Parlimen PN akan diminta untuk melakukan satu pengorbanan yang besar, untuk mengutamakan kepentingan negara sebelum kepentingan parti, gabungan mereka, atau diri sendiri, untuk menyokong undi percaya terhadap Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10 di Parlimen pada hari Selasa, untuk memastikan adanya ekosistem politik yang bersih, telus, bertanggungjawab, dan stabil di Malaysia, yang juga merupakan sebahagian dari manifesto PN untuk Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 sebelum ini.

Tetapi, orang yang sama yang secara haram dan tidak sah menggantung sidang Parlimen — dengan alasan pandemik Covid-19 — kerana takut untuk berhadapan dengan usul undi kepercayaan dan hanya mencuba untuk menyelamatkan kerajaannya dengan Memorandum Perjanjian (MOA) adalah orang yang terakhir yang sepatutnya bercakap mengenai sama ada Anwar mempunyai kepercayaan majoriti-majoriti Ahli-ahli Parlimen.

Sekurang-kurangnya, perkara pertama yang dibuat Anwar sebagai Perdana Menteri ke-10 adalah untuk mendapatkan undi kepercayaan dari Parlimen sendiri, mencontohi jejak langkah Perdana Menteri ketiga, Hussein Onn, pada tahun 1976.

Sebaliknya, Muhyiddin telah melakukan apa sahaja yang sebolehnya untuk mengelakkan undi percaya di Parlimen, sehingga dia menggantung sidang Parlimen secara haram dan tidak sah. Perdana Menteri “pintu belakang” yang pertama ini akan terus menggantung sidang Parlimen jika dia tidak dihentikan oleh Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di Pertuan Agong dan Majlis Raja-Raja, di mana dia kemudiannya lebih sanggup untuk meletakkan jawatan berbanding dengan berhadapan undi percaya di Parlimen.

Di manakah Ahli-ahli Parlimen yang mendakwa Malaysia akan menjadi sebuah negara diperintah diktator sekiranya undi percaya terhadap Perdana Menteri diadakan pada hari Selasa semasa sidang Parlimen digantung secara haram dan tidak sah pada tahun 2021 dahulu? Ahli-ahli Parlimen ini semuanya sedang berseronok dengan kelebihan dan keistimewaan sebagai seorang Timbalan Menteri dan mereka tidak peduli mengenai undi percaya di Parlimen!

Perkara paling kurang yang dapat dijangkakan dari sebuah gabungan politik yang dihormati dan bermaruah adalah untuk mereka berkecuali dari undian kepercayaan di Parlimen ini, tetapi perkara ini pun sukar untuk diberikan mereka.

Kekuatan tentangan Ahli-ahli Parlimen Perikatan Nasional terhadap undi kepercayaan untuk Anwar Ibrahim di Parlimen ini akan mencerminkan kesungguhan usaha untuk mewujudkan konspirasi Langkah Sheraton 2.0 untuk menumbangkan kerajaan perpaduan Anwar Ibrahim dan untuk membawa masuk kerajaan “pintu belakang” yang ketiga dalam sejarah negara.

Tidak ada sebarang keraguan yang para pemimpin PN sedang berhempas pulas untuk menjayakan Langkah Sheraton 2.0 dan mereka merancang untuk bulan-bulan yang akan datang, bukannya beberapa tahun yang akan datang.

Kerana inilah mereka sebegitu kuat membantah kerajaan perpaduan dan memorandum perjanjian kedua yang bukan sahaja boleh membawa suatu era kestabilan politik dan menjamin mandat lima tahun untuk Anwar sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia, tetapi juga menjadi asas untuk Malaysia menghentikan kemunduran negara dan sebaliknya menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia sebelum ulang tahun ke-100 negara kita.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Petaling Jaya pada hari Ahad, 18 Disember 2022)

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Muhyiddin’s most patriotic duty is to abstain from the vote of confidence in Parliament as his opposition to the motion would mean he subordinates the country’s stability and future to his own personal and selfish zeal to become a “backdoor” Prime Minister again

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Muhyiddin Yassin’s most patriotic duty is to abstain from the vote of confidence in Parliament as his opposition to the motion would mean that he subordinates the country’s stability and future to his own personal and selfish zeal to become a “backdoor” Prime Minister again.

I think I have the qualifications to tell Muhyiddin a thing or two how to be a responsible Opposition Leader having served as the longest Opposition Leader in the country — even in the darkest days of parliamentary democracy in the country.

I remember the first vote of confidence in the history of Malaysian Parliament in 1976, after the second Prime Minster Tun Razak died and Hussein Onn became the third Prime Minister of Malaysia.

The DAP MPs abstained and did not oppose the vote of confidence in Hussein Onn as the third Prime Minister, but in my speech on the motion, I spoke of how Malaysia could be a united, progressive, purposive, and prosperous nation.

I spoke of the growing discontent among the Malay poor that the fruits of development were enjoyed by the owners of privilege, properly, and instruments of production and the growing frustration among non-Malays who were more and more convinced that they did not have a future in Malaysia with large numbers of non-Malay professionals who had left or were preparing to emigrate overseas; the decline in moral authority of the government because of rampant corruption in high political places, whether at the Federal or State government levels, and increasing deception and dishonesty in public life.

I gave four proposals to solve the ills of the nation, namely:

Re-define the class relations in Malaysia, so that the government ceased to protect and promote vested interests or privilege and the possessing class but to abolish and end exploitation and poverty.

To regain the confidence of all races that they and their children had an assured future in this country;

To restore the moral authority of government by stamping out corruption and eliminating dishonesty in public life; and

To reinstate public confidence and trust in the efficacy and meaning of democratic processes and rights.

The vote of confidence in Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minster of Malaysia will be the second vote of confidence in the history of Malaysian Parliament.

Let Muhyiddin stand up in Parliament on the motion of confidence to state what are his proposals to resolve the paramount questions of the country: the unity of Malaysians and how Malaysia could end the decline of the nation from a first-rate world-class nation to a second-rate mediocre country, in danger of becoming a failed, divided, and kleptocratic state on Malaysia’s Centennial?

If Muhyiddin opposes the vote of confidence in Parliament, it will mean that he is not prepared to subordinate his selfish interest to be “backdoor” Prime Minister again and that he will do his utmost to topple Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister through the creation of a Sheraton Move.2 political conspiracy.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on Monday, 19th December 2022)

Perkara yang paling patriotik yang patut dibuat oleh Muhyiddin adalah untuk dia berkecuali dalam undi kepercayaan di Parlimen kerana sebarang bantahannya terhadap usulnya hanya bermakna dia mengutamakan kepentingan dirinya untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri “pintu belakang” berbanding dengan kestabilan dan masa hadapan negara

Perkara yang paling patriotik yang patut dibuat oleh Muhyiddin Yassin adalah untuk dia berkecuali dalam undi kepercayaan di Parlimen kerana sebarang bantahannya terhadap usulnya hanya bermakna dia mengutamakan kepentingan dirinya untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri “pintu belakang” berbanding dengan kestabilan dan masa hadapan negara.

Saya percaya yang saya layak untuk memberikan satu dua nasihat kepada Muhyiddin mengenai bagaimana untuk menjadi seorang Ketua Pembangkang yang bertanggungjawab, memandangkan saya sendiri telah menjadi salah seorang Ketua Pembangkang untuk tempoh yang terlama dalam negara — walaupun dalam hari-hari tergelap untuk demokrasi di negara kita.

Saya masih ingat undi kepercayaan pertama dalam sejarah Parlimen Malaysia pada tahun 1976 selepas Perdana Menteri kedua, Tun Abdul Razak, meninggal dunia dan Hussein Onn menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ketiga.

Ahli-ahli Parlimen DAP mengambil pendirian berkecuali dan tidak membantah usul kepercayaan terhadap Hussein Onn sebagai Perdana menteri ketiga, tetapi dalam ucapan saya semasa usul ini dibahaskan, saya bercakap mengenai bagaimana Malaysia dapat menjadi sebuah negara yang bersatu padu, progresif, berhala tuju, dan makmur.

Saya bercakap mengenai ketidakpuasan hati dalam kalangan orang Melayu yang miskin mengenai hasil pembangunan negara yang hanya dinikmati oleh mereka yang berkedudukan, yang mempunyai hartanah, dan mereka yang memiliki modal; dan juga mengenai kekecewaan orang bukan Melayu yang semakin merasakan yang mereka tidak mempunyai masa hadapan di Malaysia dengan sejumlah besar golongan profesional bukan Melayu yang telah berpindah keluar negara; mengenai kemerosotan autoriti moral kerajaan yang disebabkan oleh rasuah yang berleluasa dalam jawatan-jawatan tinggi politik, baik di peringkat kerajaan Persekutuan atau Negeri; dan juga mengenai peningkatan penipuan dan ketidakjujuran dalam kehidupan awam.

Saya memberikan empat cadangan untuk menyelesaikan masalah-masalah negara ini, iaitu:

Menakrifkan semula hubungan antara kelas di malaysia, supaya kerajaan berhenti untuk melindungi dan mempromosikan kepentingan pihak tertentu yang berkedudukan dan bermodal, sebaliknya untuk kerajaan menghapuskan dan menamatkan eksploitasi dan kemiskinan.

Untuk mendapatkan semula keyakinan semua kaum bahawa mereka dan anak-anak mereka mempunyai tempat dan masa hadapan yang terjamin di negara ini;

Untuk mengembalikan semula autoriti moral kerajaan dengan menghapuskan rasuah dan ketidakjujuran dalam kehidupan awam; dan

Untuk mengembalikan keyakinan dan kepercayaan rakyat terhadap keberkesanan dan makna proses demokrasi dan hak-hak mereka.

Undi kepercayaan terhadap Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri ke-10 akan menjadi undi kepercayaan kedua dalam sejarah Parlimen Malaysia.

Muhyiddin perlu bangkit di Parlimen semasa usul ini untuk menyatakan apakah cadangan-cadangannya untuk menyelesaikan masalah utama yang membelenggu negara kita; masalah mengenai perpaduan negara dan bagaimana untuk kita menghentikan kemunduran Malaysia dari sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia kepada sebuah negara biasa-biasa sahaja yang kini berada dalam bahaya untuk menjadi sebuah negara gagal, berpecah belah, dan kleptokratik menjelang ulang tahun ke-100 negara.

Sekiranya Muhyiddin membantah usul kepercayaan ini di Parlimen, perkara ini menunjukkan yang dia tidak bersedia untuk mengetepikan kepentingan dan cita-cita peribadinya untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri “pintu belakang” sekali lagi dan bahawa dia akan melakukan sedaya upayanya untuk menumbangkan kerajaan Anwar Ibrahim melalui satu konspirasi politik seperti Langkah Sheraton 2.0.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Petaling Jaya pada hari Isnin, 19 Disember 2022)

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Vote of Confidence has solidified Anwar’s tenure as 10th Prime Minister for five years, although the guards must never be down on the possibility of a Sheraton Move 2 political conspiracy to topple the Anwar government much earlier

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The vote of confidence in Parliament yesterday on Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister has solidified Anwar’s tenure as Prime Minister for five years, although the guards must never be down on the possibility of a Sheraton Move 2 political conspiracy to topple the Anwar government much earlier.

Perikatan Nasional (PN) MPs made this point quite clear in the parliamentary debate yesterday although the masterminds of a Sheraton Move 2 political conspiracy must now realise that after the vote-of-confidence in Parliament yesterday, it is unlikely to happen in months as they originally expected.

The vote of confidence provides a much-needed breathing space for a reset of nation-building policies and for Malaysia to end the decline from a first-rate world-class nation to a second-rate mediocre country, at risk of falling into the trajectory to become a failed, divided, and kleptocratic state on Malaysia’s Centennial.

Although the PN MPs did not vote against the motion, it is unfortunate that the PN MPs chose to quibble over semantics instead on focussing on the urgent need to check Malaysia’s national decline and to save Malaysia from ending up as a failed, divided, and kleptocratic state in a few decades.

There was only one Member of Parliament who spoke about Malaysia’s national decline and urged MPs to focus on fixing the economy instead of quarrelling over semantics.

The UMNO Titiwangsa MP Johari Ghani expressed disbelief that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) did not expand from 2018 to 2021, which is at -0.1 percent, while Indonesia’s GDP recorded 11.8 percent, followed by Vietnam (24.2 percent), Thailand (9.7 percent), and Philippines (19.3 percent).

He warned that Malaysia could go down the same path as Sri Lanka, which suffered an economic crisis earlier this year, if the government failed to improve the economy.

He said if politicking continued in the country, Malaysia would risk falling further behind Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand in terms of economic development.

He said: “We have wasted time with three prime ministers in the last four years and have fallen behind our regional neighbours.”

Johari Ghani defended that the confidence vote was necessary to ensure the government serves a full term and is given the opportunity to elevate the country’s economy by providing the political stability that will attract greater foreign direct investment (FDI).

MPs must use the “breathing space” provided by the vote of confidence to rebuild the economy and propel Malaysia into the information and technological era; unite Malaysians of diverse races, religions and regions; end the injustices and inequalities in the country; ensure our schools and universities are centres of educational excellence; install a clean, honest, and incorruptible government recognised by the world and leverage on the values and virtues of the four great civilizations which meet in confluence in Malaysia.

The PN MPs had no ideas how Malaysia can end the national decline to rebuild and propel Malaysia into the modern technological world.

The question is whether the PN MPs are capable of rising above polemics and semantics and join in the national effort to save the country for Malaysia to become great once again.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 20th December 2022)

Undi Percaya di Parlimen telah mengukuhkan kedudukan Anwar sebagai Perdana Menteri ke-10 untuk lima tahun tetapi kita masih perlu berjaga dengan kemungkinan berlakunya konspirasi politik Langkah Sheraton 2 untuk menumbangkan kerajaan Anwar dengan lebih awal

Usul undi Percaya di Parlimen semalam telah mengukuhkan kedudukan Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri ke-10 untuk lima tahun yang akan datang, tetapi kita masih perlu berjaga dengan kemungkinan berlakunya konspirasi politik Langkah Sheraton 2 untuk menumbangkan kerajaan Anwar dengan lebih awal.

Ahli-ahli Parlimen Perikatan Nasional (PN) telah menunjukkan perkara ini dengan jelas dalam perbahasan di parlimen semalam, walaupun dalang di sebalik konspirasi politik Langkah Sheraton 2 kini perlu sedar yang selepas undi percaya di Parlimen semalam, rancangan mereka ini tidak berkemungkinan untuk terjadi dalam beberapa bulan yang akan datang seperti yang dijangkakan mereka.

Undi percaya ini telah memberikan kelegaan dan ruang untuk menetapkan semula hala tuju pembinaan negara dan untuk Malaysia menghentikan kemerosotan negara kita, dari sebuah negara bertaraf dunia kepada sebuah negara yang biasa-biasa sahaja, yang kini berisiko untuk menjadi sebuah negara gagal, berpecah belah, dan kleptokratik semasa ulang tahun ke-100 negara.

Walaupun Ahli-ahli Parlimen PN tidak membantah usul ini, amat malang sekali apabila mereka memilih untuk berdalih mengenai perkara-perkara remeh, dan bukannya menumpukan perbahasan kepada keperluan untuk menyelamatkan Malaysia dari menjadi sebuah negara gagal, berpecah belah, dan kleptokratik dalam beberapa dekad yang akan datang.

Hanya ada seorang sahaja Ahli Parlimen yang bercakap mengenai kemerosotan negara dan menggesa Ahli-ahli Parlimen untuk memperbetulkan ekonomi kita dan bukannya untuk berdalih mengenai perkara-perkara remeh.

Ahli Parlimen UMNO untuk Titiwangsa, Johari Ghani, menyatakan kejutannya melihat kadar keluaran dalam negara kasar (KDNK) negara yang tidak berkembang dari tahun 2018 sehingga 2021, yang berada pada paras -0.1 peratus, manakala KDNK Indonesia mencatatkan perkembangan 11.8 peratus, diikuti oleh Vietnam (24.2 peratus), Thailand (9.7 peratus), dan Filipina (19.3 peratus).

Dia memberikan amaran yang Malaysia mungkin akan ke arah yang sama seperti Sri Lanka, yang mengalami krisis ekonomi pada awal tahun ini, sekiranya kerajaan gagal untuk memulihkan ekonomi.

Dia mengatakan, sekiranya pertelagahan politik berterusan dalam negara, Malaysia berisiko untuk terus ditinggalkan di belakang Singapura, Indonesia, Vietnam, dan Thailand dari segi pembangunan ekonomi.

Dia mengatakan lagi: “Kita telah membazirkan masa dengan tiga orang perdana menteri dalam empat tahun yang lepas dan kita telah ketinggalan di belakang jiran serantau kita.”

Johari Ghani mempertahankan undian percaya ini, mengatakan ia diperlukan untuk memastikan kerajaan dapat berkhidmat untuk satu penggal penuh dan diberikan peluang untuk meningkatkan ekonomi negara dengan kestabilan politik yang bakal menarik lebih banyak peluang pelaburan asing secara langsung.

Ahli-ahli Parlimen perlu menggunakan ruang yang ada ini untuk membina semula ekonomi dan mengangkat Malaysia ke dalam era maklumat dan teknologi; untuk menyatukan masyarakat majmuk di Malaysia yang datang dari latar belakang pelbagai kaum, agama, dan kawasan; untuk menamatkan kezaliman dan ketaksamaan dalam negara; memastikan sekolah dan universiti kita menjadi pusat kecemerlangan pendidikan; mempunyai sebuah kerajaan yang bersih, jujur, dan tidak korup yang diiktiraf dunia; dan menggunakan sebaiknya nilai-nilai murni dari empat tamadun hebat yang bertemu di Malaysia.

Ahli-ahli Parlimen PN tidak mempunyai sebarang idea bagaimana untuk menghentikan kemerosotan Malaysia dan untuk membina semula Malaysia ke dalam dunia moden.

Persoalannya kini adalah, sama ada Ahli-ahli Parlimen PN ini mampu untuk bangkit dan meninggalkan polemik dan semantik, dan sebaliknya, menyertai usaha untuk menyelamatkan negara supaya Malaysia boleh menjadi hebat sekali lagi.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Petaling Jaya pada hari Selasa, 20 DIsember 2022)

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Fully support Perak Sultan Nazrin Shah to have zero tolerance for incitement of racial and religious fear and hatred in plural Malaysia

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The speech yesterday by Perak Sultan Nazrin Shah not to tolerate attempts to incite racial and religious hatred which would provoke hostilities in Perak should be the national policy of the country.

I call on the Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim to have zero tolerance for incitement of racial and religious fear and hatred in plural Malaysia as it can destroy 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 exploiting 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.

This dangerous practice reached an unprecedented level during the recent 15th General Election campaign.

Where does the threat to Malays and Islam come from?

In my 57 years of public life, I have never accused anyone of being anti-Malay, anti-Chinese, anti-Indian, anti-Kadazan, anti-Dayak or anti-Islam, anti-Buddhism, anti-Hinduism, or anti-Christianity, and yet I have been accused of being a racist, anti-Malay, anti-Islam, a communist, and lately an Islamophobe, without any iota of evidence whatsoever.

For this reason, in the aftermath of the prevalence of fear and hate speech on the social media in the 15th General Election, I welcome the recent event where 100 ethnic and religious groups gathered at a Christmas dinner to usher in the Yuletide festivities, which was attended by more Muslims than Christians. More such events to enable Malaysians to understand the different religions in the country should be held.

As Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman hoped, Malaysia should be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”, and one aspect where Malaysia can be “a beacon of light” to the world is to be a model country of inter-religious peace, tolerance, acceptance and harmony.

Maybe the time has come for the government to establish a Commission with the specific task to promote inter-religious understanding and harmony in the country and to uphold Article 3 of the Constitution on Islam as the religion of Malaysia but other religions may be practised in peace and harmony.

There should also be a special section in the police force to deal with hate speech which promote hate and fear among the different racial and religious groups, especially on the social media.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Wednesday, 21st December 2022)

Menyokong penuh titah Sultan Nazrin Shah untuk tidak ada toleransi terhadap syak wasangka dan kebencian antara kaum dan agama dalam masyarakat majmuk di Malaysia

Titah Sultan Perak, Sultan Nazrin Shah semalam untuk kita tidak bertoleransi dengan cubaan untuk menghasut perasaan syak wasangka dan kebencian di antara kaum dan agama yang berpotensi untuk mencetuskan perbalahan di Perak sepatutnya menjadi salah satu dasar negara.

Saya menyeru Perdana Menteri, Anwar Ibrahim, untuk tidak bertoleransi terhadap hasutan perkauman dan keagamaan dalam masyarakat majmuk di Malaysia kerana perkara ini berpotensi untuk memusnahkan negara kita.

Pendirian sifar toleransi terhadap politik toksik penipuan, syak wasangka, kebencian, perkauman, dan keagamaan ini perlulah dapat dilihat dengan jelas dari hari-hari awal kerajaan Anwar, dengan tindakan tegas diambil terhadap mereka yang mengeksploitasi perbezaan perkauman dan keagamaan di Malaysia.

Selama 57 tahun saya berkecimpung dalam politik, saya telah bergerak dan melawat lebih banyak kawasan-kawasan di Malaysia berbanding dengan kebanyakan rakyat Malaysia, dan saya boleh katakan dengan yakin, yang tidak ada sentimen anti Melayu, Cina, India, Kadazan, Dayak, atau anti Islam, Buddha, Hindu, Kristian dalam kalangan rakyat, tetapi sesetengah parti dan personaliti politik cuba untuk meracuni minda rakyat yang kononnya orang Melayu dan Islam kini sedang terancam.

Perbuatan berbahaya ini telah mencapai satu tahap yang belum dilihat sebelum ini dalam kempen Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 baru-baru ini.

Dari manakah ancaman terhadap orang Melayu dan Islam datang?

Selama 57 tahun saya berkhidmat untuk rakyat, saya tidak pernah menuduh sesiapa pun sebagai anti Melayu, Cina, India, Kadazan, Dayak, atau anti Islam, Buddha, Hindu atau Kristian, tetapi saya tetap dituduh sebagai seorang rasis, seorang yang kononnya anti Melayu dan Islam, kononnya seorang komunis, dan baru-baru ini pula kononnya saya Islamofobik, tanpa secebis bukti sekalipun.

Atas sebab inilah, dengan peningkatan ucapan kebencian yang menghasut perasaan syak wasangka di media sosial selepas Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, saya mengalu-alukan acara yang dianjurkan baru-baru ini di mana kira-kira 100 kumpulan etnik dan agama berkumpul dalam satu majlis makan malam Krismas, yang telah dihadiri oleh lebih ramai orang Islam berbanding dengan Kristian. Lebih banyak acara-acara sebegini patut diadakan untuk membolehkan rakyat Malaysia lebih memahami pelbagai agama yang ada di dalam negara ini.

Seperti yang dicita-citakan oleh Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia sepatutnya menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang sukar dan terganggu”, dan satu aspek di mana Malaysia boleh menjadi “sinar cahaya” ini adalah untuk menjadi negara contoh di mana terdapatnya keamanan, keharmonian, toleransi, dan penerima di antara masyarakat pelbagai agama yang berada di Malaysia.

Mungkin masanya telah tiba untuk kerajaan menubuhkan sebuah Jawatankuasa dengan tanggungjawab khas untuk mempromosikan pemahaman dan keharmonian di antara agama dan untuk menegakkan Perkara 3 Perlembagaan Persekutuan yang mengatakan Islam sebagai agama rasmi dengan agama-agama lain bebas diamalkan dengan aman dan harmoni.

Perlu ada satu bahagian khas dalam badan polis untuk menguruskan masalah ucapan kebencian yang menghasut ke arah kebencian dan syak wasangka dalam pelbagai kumpulan kaum dan agama, terutamanya di media sosial.

Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Petaling Jaya pada hari Rabu, 31 Disember 2022

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Anwar Government should give priority to legal reforms to ensure that the abuses of SOSMA in the last decade to muzzle corruption scandals, promote free and fair elections, and to arrest Malaysians in non-existing links with Tamil Tigers could not be repeated

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The Anwar Government should give priority to legal reforms to ensure that the abuses of Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) in the last decade to muzzle corruption scandals, promote free and fair elections, and to arrest Malaysians in non-existing links with Tamil Tigers could not be repeated

The SOSMA abuses in the last decade include:

The arrests of Khairuddin Abu Hassan and his counsel Matthias Chong to prevent them from launching an international campaign to expose the 1MDB scandal. In fact, Khairuddin won a lawsuit for wrongful detention against the government and was awarded RM300,000 in damages and RM50,000 in costs.

The arrest former Bersih 2.0 Chairperson and former Petaling Jaya Member of Parliament, Maria Chin Abdullah for Bersih campaign for free and fair elections.

The arrest of former DAP Malacca Executive Councillor and State Assemblyman, G. Saminathan and Negeri Sembilan State Assemblyman P. Gunasekaran for alleged links to the LTTE, claiming that they were part of a plot to attack the Sri Lanka Commission in Malaysia.

A total of 33 families in Sungai Petani, Kedah, who were left in the lurch after police arrested their sole breadwinners under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) in 2020 after over two years later, the men aged 22 to 60 are still in remand waiting for their court hearing, after being subsequently charged under the Penal Code.

It was because of these SOSMA abuses that 88 Pakatan Harapan MPs voted against then the extension of Subsection 4(5) of the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) for another five years in July this year.

The Home Minister at the time and now the Opposition Leader Hamzah Zainudin, while winding up the Sosma motion debate in July this year, agreed with the government and opposition lawmakers on the existence of unfair provisions and clauses in the Act.

Hamzah said the cabinet led by Dr Mahathir Mohamad agreed on Nov 29, 2019, to make an amendment to Sosma.

Hamzah said the Ismail Sabri administration needed more time to execute what the cabinet decided in 2019 as it needed to engage with stakeholders, including the police.

The Anwar Government should complete the Ismail Sabri’s government consultations on the repeal of the draconian provisions in SOSMA, and bring the amendments to SOSMA to Parliament in the February session to prevent a repeat of the abuses of SOSMA in the last decade.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Thursday, December 22, 2022)

Kerajaan Anwar perlu memberikan keutamaan terhadap reformasi undang-undang untuk memastikan salah guna SOSMA dalam dekad yang lepas untuk menutup skandal rasuah, untuk menyekat kempen pilihan raya yang bebas dan adil, dan untuk menangkap rakyat Malaysia yang tidak mempunyai apa-apa kaitan dengan Tamil Tigers tidak berulang lagi

Kerajaan Anwar perlu memberikan keutamaan terhadap reformasi undang-undang untuk memastikan salah guna Akta Kesalahan Keselamatan (Langkah-langkah Khas) 2012 (SOSMA) dalam dekad yang lepas untuk menutup skandal rasuah, untuk menyekat kempen pilihan raya yang bebas dan adil, dan untuk menangkap rakyat Malaysia yang tidak mempunyai apa-apa kaitan dengan Tamil Tigers tidak berulang lagi.

Antara contoh salah guna SOSMA dalam dekad yang lepas:

Penangkapan Khairuddin Abu Hassan dan peguamnya, Matthias Chong, untuk mengelakkan mereka dari melancarkan kempen antarabangsa untuk mendedahkan skandal 1MDB. Malah, Khairuddin telah menang saman penahanan tidak sah terhadap kerajaan dan dianugerahkan ganti rugi sebanyak RM300,000 dengan RM50,000 kos.

Penangkapan bekas Pengerusi Bersih 2.0 dan bekas Ahli Parlimen Petaling Jaya, Maria Chin Abdullah, kerana kempen Bersih untuk pilihan raya yang bebas dan adil.

Penangkapan bekas ADUN DAP dan EXCO Melaka, G. Saminathan, dan ADUN DAP Negeri Sembilan, P. Gunasekaran, atas dakwaan kononnya terdapat hubungan dengan LTTE, mendakwa yang mereka adalah sebahagian daripada rancangan untuk menyerang Pesuruhjaya Tinggi Sri Lanka di Malaysia.

Sejumlah 33 keluarga di Sungai Petani, Kedah, yang berhadapan dengan kesusahan selepas pencari nafkah dalam keluarga mereka ditangkap di bawah SOSMA pada tahun 2020. Dua tahun kemudian, mereka yang berusia di antara 22 ke 60 tahun ini masih di bawah tahanan reman sambil menunggu perbicaraan mahkamah mereka, selepas didakwa di bawah peruntukan Kanun Keseksaan.

Kerana salah guna seperti inilah 88 orang Ahli-ahli Parlimen Pakatan Harapan mengundi untuk menentang pelanjutan Subseksyen 4(5) Akta Kesalahan Keselamatan (Langkah-langkah Khas) 2012 (SOSMA) untuk lima tahun lagi pada bulan Julai tahun ini.

Menteri Dalam Negeri ketika itu, yang kini menjadi Ketua Pembangkang, Hamzah Zainudin, semasa dalam penggulungan perbahasan usul berkenaan SOSMA ini bersetuju dengan Ahli-ahli Parlimen Kerajaan dan Pembangkang yang menyatakan bahawa terdapat peruntukan dan klausa yang tidak adil di dalam Akta ini.

Hamzah mengatakan yang kabinet yang diketuai oleh Dr Mahathir Mohamed bersetuju pada 29 November 2019 untuk membawa pindaan kepada SOSMA.

Hamzah mengatakan yang pentadbiran Ismail Sabri memerlukan lebih banyak masa untuk melaksanakan keputusan kabinet yang dibuat pada tahun 2019 kerana mereka perlu melaksanakan libat urus bersama dengan pemegang taruh, termasuklah pihak polis.

Kerajaan Anwar perlu menyelesaikan sesi libat urus mengenai penghapusan peruntukan zalim dalam SOSMA yang dimulakan oleh pentadbiran Ismail Sabri ini dan bentangkan pindaan-pindaan yang perlu ke Parlimen dalam sidang bulan Februari untuk mengelakkan dari berulangnya salah guna SOSMA yang pernah berlaku sebelum ini.

(Kenyataan Media oleh veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Khamis, 22 Disember 2022)

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