Khairy should explain why Malaysia has got the worst Covid-19 death figures as well as the worst BID Covid-19 death figures yesterday since he was sworn in as the new Health Minister 24 days ago on August 30?

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Khairy Jamaluddin should explain why Malaysia has got the worst Covid-19 death figures as well as the worst Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 death figures yesterday since he was sworn in as the new Health Minister 24 days ago on August 30?

Yesterday, Malaysia reported 487 Covid-19 deaths including 161 Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths, the highest-ever registered for both categories which Khairy was sworn in the new Health Minister – bringing the total death toll from Covid-19 to 24,565 deaths, including 4,809 BID Covid-19 deaths.

From seeing light at the end of the tunnel with Khairy’s appointment as the new Health Minister, the light appears to have disappeared as had been experience numerous times in Malaysia in the past one year in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Even without taking into account the worst number of Covid-19 deaths and BID Covid-19 deaths yesterday, Malaysia already tops the world as the No. 1 country in the category “Death in the last seven days per 1 million population”.

Malaysia’s score is 76, which overshadows the 20 countries which have more cumulative total of Covid-19 cases than Malaysia, as illustrated below:

1. USA – 34

2. India – 2

3. Brazil – 17

4. UK – 15

5. Russia – 38

6. France – 8

7. Turkey – 20

8. Iran – 32

9. Argentina – 17

10. Colombia – 5

11. Spain – 9

12. Italy – 6

13. Indonesia – 5

14. Germany – 5

15. Mexico – 29

16. Poland – 2

17. South Africa – 18

18. Philippines – 14

19. Ukraine – 14

20. Peru – 7

21. Malaysia – 76

Apart from mini-states and island nations, Malaysia is indisputably top of the world in daily Covid-19 deaths per million – a dubious distinction which Malaysians do not want.

Malaysia is losing out badly to Indonesia, which has more than eight times’ Malaysia’s population, in the war against Covid-19 pandemic.

For the last three weeks, daily new Covid-19 cases in Indonesia have been below 10,000 cases and in four-digit numbers while in Malaysia, we have not been able to go below 14,000 cases for the past two months and have been in five-digit numbers for over two months.

Yesterday, for instance, Indonesia reported 2,720 new Covid-19 cases while Malaysia reported 14,990 new Covid-19 cases.l

Indonesia has also improved significantly its positivity rate, from 9.3% on 1st September to 3.7% on 13th September.

Malaysia’s positivity rate is very bad. It has been more than 10% since late August and on 17th September it was as high as 14.8%, way above the 5% recommended by WHO.

Khairy cannot continue to avoid this subject.

Have we cleared the backlog of deaths in the public hospitals, and if not, when will the backlog of corpses be cleared?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, September 23, 2021)

Khairy harus menjelaskan mengapa Malaysia mencatatkan angka kes kematian akibat Covid-19 terburuk dan juga angka kes kematian akibat Covid-19 yang dibawa ke hospital (BID) terburuk semalam sejak beliau mengangkat sumpah sebagai Menteri Kesihatan yang baharu pada 24 hari lalu pada 30 Ogos?

Semalam, Malaysia merekodkan 487 kes kematian akibat Covid-19 termasuk 161 kes kematian akibat Covid-19 yang dibawa ke hospital (BID), jumlah tertinggi yang pernah direkodkan untuk kedua-dua kategori sejak Khairy mengalas tanggungjawab sebagai Menteri Kesihatan — menjadikan jumlah terkumpul kes kematian akibat Covid-19 sebanyak 24,565, dan 4,809 daripadanya adalah kes BID.

Harapan untuk melihat Khairy menguruskan penularan wabak Covid-19 di negara ini dengan baik kian pudar, seperti yang berlaku sebelum ini.

Meskipun tidak mengambil kira jumlah kematian akibat Covid-19 dan BID yang terburuk semalam, Malaysia masih diletakkan sebagai negara nombor satu di dunia untuk kategori “kematian per sejuta penduduk sepanjang tujuh hari lalu”.

Malaysia mencatatkan markah sebanyak 76, menewaskan 20 negara lain yang mempunyai jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 yang lebih tinggi berbanding Malaysia, seperti yang ditunjukkan dalam carta di bawah:

1. USA – 34

2. India – 2

3. Brazil – 17

4. UK – 15

5. Rusia – 38

6. Perancis – 8

7. Turki – 20

8. Iran – 32

9. Argentina – 17

10. Colombia – 5

11. Sepanyol – 9

12. Itali – 6

13. Indonesia – 5

14. Jerman – 5

15. Mexico – 29

16. Poland – 2

17. Afrika Selatan – 18

18. Filipina – 14

19. Ukraine – 14

20. Peru – 7

21. Malaysia – 76

Selain negara-negara kecil dan negara-negara pulau, tidak dapat disangkal lagi bahawa Malaysia berada di kedudukan teratas untuk kes kematian akibat Covid-19 per sejuta penduduk — suatu pencapaian yang tidak dimahukan oleh rakyat Malaysia.

Malaysia tewas teruk kepada Indonesia — yang mempunyai jumlah penduduk lapan kali ganda berbanding jumlah penduduk di Malaysia — dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19.

Sepanjang tiga minggu lalu, kes harian baharu Covid-19 di Indonesia telah menurun ke bawah paras 10,000 kes dan dalam lingkungan julat empat angka sementara Malaysia; kes tidak pernah turun di bawah paras 14,000 selama dua bulan dan mencatatkan kes lima angka selama lebih dua bulan.

Sebagai contoh, semalam, Indonesia melaporkan 2,720 kes baharu Covid-19 sementara Malaysia melaporkan 14,990 kes.

Indonesia juga telah menunjukkan penurunan kadar positif jangkitan, dari 9.3% pada 1 September kepada 3.7% pada 13 September.

Kadar positif Malaysia pula sangat buruk. Sejak hujung Ogos, kadar positif jangkitan berada pada paras lebih 10% dan pada 17 Oktober, kadar tersebut meningkat setinggi 14.8%, jauh lebih tinggi dari kadar 5% yang disarankan Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia (WHO).

Khairy tidak boleh lagi mengelak untuk menjelaskan mengenai perkara ini.

Sudahkah kita menyelesaikan masalah tunggakan (backlog) dalam pengurusan mayat di hospital awam, dan jika tidak, bilakah ia akan diselesaikan?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis, 23 September, 2021:)

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The Speaker should excuse himself as chairman of Parliamentary Committee of Privileges in the  probe  whether a senior Minister had blocked MP for Teluk Intan Nga Kor Ming from presiding over the afternoon session of Monday’s parliamentary meeting

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I had said yesterday that the Parliamentary Committee of Privileges should probe whether a senior Minister had blocked the Member of Parliament for Teluk Intan, Nga Kor Ming, from presiding over the afternoon session of Monday’s parliamentary meeting.

On Tuesday, the MP for Puchong Gobind Singh Deo had challenged the Minister for International Trade and Industries Azmin Ali to admit that he was the senior minister who blocked Nga from presiding over the afternoon session of Monday’s parliamentary meeting, but Azmin avoided the subject on the ground that it was then a question-and-answer session.

The interference with the Speaker’s decision by the Executive must be regarded as a most serious matter and an unacceptable parliamentary behaviour as it affects the position and place of Parliament and a grave infringement of the doctrine of the separation of powers provided in the Constitution.

Although the Speaker, Azhar Azizan Harun had said that he changed his mind to ask the MP for Teluk Intan to chair the afternoon session of the Monday proceeding without any pressure, the question remained whether a senior minister had tried to block Kor Ming’s chairing of Parliament and whether this was unacceptable behaviour for a Senior Minister and whether it constituted a breach of -parliamentary privilege.

The matter should be probed the Parliamentary Committee of Privileges. As the Speaker is the Chaiman of the Parliamentary Committee of Privileges, Azhar should excuse himself from this probe which should be conducted by the rest of the Privileges Committee.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Thursday, 23rd September 2021)

Speaker Dewan Rakyat perlu memberikan laluan kepada orang lain untuk mempengerusikan siasatan Jawatankuasa Hak dan Kebebasan Dewan Rakyat mengenai sama ada seorang Menteri Kanan telah menghalang Ahli Parlimen Teluk Intan, Nga Kor Ming daripada mempengerusikan sidang pada petang hari Isnin

Saya telah katakan semalam yang Jawatankuasa Hak dan Kebebasan Dewan Rakyat perlu menyiasat sama ada seorang Menteri Kanan telah menghalang Ahli Parlimen Teluk Intan, Nga Kor Ming, daripada mempengerusikan persidangan Parlimen sesi petang Isnin yang lepas.

Pada hari Selasa, Ahli Parlimen Puchong, Gobind Singh Deo telah mencabar Menteri Kanan Perdagangan dan Industri Antarabangsa, Azmin Ali, untuk mengaku sama ada beliaulah Menteri Kanan yang menyekat Nga daripada mempengerusikan sidang petang hari sebelumnya, tetapi Azmin mengelak daripada menjawab persoalan tersebut semasa sesi jawab lisan di Dewan Rakyat.

Gangguan terhadap keputusan Yang Di Pertua Dewan Rakyat oleh pihak Eksekutif ini adalah satu perkara yang amat serius dan satu tingkah laku yang amat tidak boleh diterima di Parlimen memandangkan perbuatan ini memberikan kesan kepada kedudukan dan martabat Parlimen dan juga merupakan satu pencabulan prinsip pemisahan kuasa seperti yang termaktub di dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

Walaupun Yang di Pertua Dewan Rakyat, Azhar Azizan Harun telah mengatakan yang beliau berubah fikiran mengenai permintaan beliau untuk meminta Ahli Parlimen Teluk Intan mempengerusikan majlis pada petang hari Isnin, persoalan yang masih belum terjawab adalah sama ada seorang Menteri Kanan telah cuba untuk menghalang Nga Kor Ming daripada mempengerusikan sidang ini dan sama ada perbuatan seperti itu merupakan satu penyalahgunaan hak dan keistimewaan Ahli Parlimen.

Perkara ini perlu disiasat oleh Jawatankuasa Hak dan Kebebasan Dewan Rakyat. Memandangkan Yang di Pertua Dewan Rakyat juga merupakan pengerusi jawatankuasa ini, beliau perlu memberikan ruang kepada Ahli-ahli Jawatankuasa yang lain untuk menyiasat perkara ini.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Parlimen pada hari Khamis, 23 September, 2021)

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Cabinet  today should accept the High Court decision on automatic citizenship for overseas-born children of Malaysian mothers and foreign fathers  and direct the Attorney-General to withdraw any appeal

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There is no need for the Cabinet to deliberate on the issue of Malaysian mothers whose children were born abroad as a result of marriage to foreigners.

What the Cabinet should do is to accept the High Court decision on automatic citizenship for overseas-born children of Malaysian mothers and foreign fathers and direct the Attorney-General to withdraw the appeal.

Whether the government amends the Constitution is a separate issue and must not be confused with the government’s commitment to uphold the rule of law and to respect the human rights of Malaysians.

There is nothing to say that the government must amend the Constitution if it is to accept the High Court decision that children born overseas to Malaysian mothers are entitled to citizenship by operation of law.

All it needs is humility that the government can be wrong.

This is the time for the Cabinet Ministers to show their mettle – whether they are policy-makers or just yes-men and yes-women.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Friday, 24th September 2021)

Mesyuarat Kabinet hari ini perlu menerima keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi untuk memberikan kerakyatan secara automatik kepada kanak-kanak yang dilahirkan di luar negara kepada ibu warganegara Malaysia dengan bapa warga asing dan mengarahkan Peguam Negara untuk menarik semula sebarang rayuan

Tidak ada keperluan untuk Kabinet mempertimbangkan lagi isu kanak-kanak yang lahir di luar negara daripada seorang ibu warganegara Malaysia dan bapa bukan warga negara ini.

Apa yang Kabinet perlu lakukan adalah untuk menerima keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi untuk memberikan kerakyatan automatik kepada kanak-kanak ini dan mengarahkan Peguam Negara untuk menarik semula permohonan rayuannya.

Sama ada kerajaan akan meminda Perlembagaan itu sendiri adalah isu yang berbeza dan tidak boleh dikelirukan dengan komitmen kerajaan untuk menegakkan kedaulatan undang-undang dan menghormati hak asasi manusia rakyat Malaysia.

Tidak ada keperluan di mana-mana yang mengatakan kerajaan perlu meminda Perlembagaan sekiranya mahu menerima keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi yang mengatakan kanak-kanak yang lahir di luar negara kepada seorang ibu warganegara Malaysia layak untuk menerima kerakyatan melalui proses undang-undang.

Satu-satu perkara yang diperlukan hanya untuk kerajaan merendah diri dan mengakui kesilapannya sebelum ini.

Inilah masanya untuk Menteri-menteri Kabinet menunjukkan kebolehan mereka — sama ada mereka ini adalah pembuat dasar atau hanya pak turut dan mak turut.

(Kenyataan media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri di Gelang Patah pada hari Jumaat, 24 September 2021)

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Congrats Khairy, for bringing down daily new  Covid-19 cases to below 14,000 cases yesterday – first time since  two months ago  – and now to surmount the next hurdle  to bring down  daily new  Covid-19 cases to below 4,000 cases as four months ago and supposed to be one of the three thresholds for transiting from Phase One of National Recovery Plan

Congratulations to Khairy Jamaluddin, the Health Minister, for bringing down daily new Covid-19 cases to below 14,000 cases yesterday – the first time since two months ago – and now to surmount the next hurdle to bring down daily new Covid-19 cases to below 4,000 cases as four months ago and which was supposed to be one of the three thresholds for transiting from Phase One of the National Recovery Plan announced by the former Prime Minister on 15th June 2021.

There is also the good news of daily Covid-19 deaths plunging from 487 deaths (including 161 Brought-in-Dead BID deaths) on Tuesday to 116 Covid-19 deaths (with only 29 BID deaths) yesterday.

I have been pressing Khairy for the last few days to explain the actual position with regard to Covid-19 deaths, especially with the huge backlog of corpses in the government hospitals which have not been analysed and undergone a post-mortem, as the issue is shrouded in great mystery and gravely affected the government’ and Khairy’s credibility on Covid-19 data in Malaysia.

This is as good a time as any for Khairy to come clean about the actual situation of Covid-19 deaths which goes back to the period under the previous Health Minister.

In the process, Khairy should explain why the new website, CovidNow, was only updated well past 6 am this morning, resulting in the Worldometer website updating its Malaysia data on Covid-19 deaths yesterday only at 7 am today.

There are those who claim that Malaysia is a success story in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

If having the longest Covid-19 wave the world – going on for a year and still without any sign of subsiding – and causing two million Covid-19 cases and nearly 25,000 Covid-19 deaths (including about 5,000 BID Covid-19 deaths), and catapulting Malaysia to the top of the world to be No. 1 country in “Death in the last seven days per 1 million population” (except for mini-states and tiny island nations) is a success story, we clearly have a different story of what constitutes a “success story”.

Two days go, China, which was the world’s No. 1 country with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, fell another place to be ranked No. 110 among countries with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, while Malaysia will overtake another country tomorrow to be ranked world’s top No. 20 when we were No.89 when we celebrated our 63rd National Day last year.

Which country is the success story in the war against Covid-19 pandemic?

I won’t waste time on such intellectual pygmies.

The Covid-19 pandemic is an existential threat to Malaysia.

The primary reason for the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri and Pakatan Harapan leaders is the worsening Covid-19 pandemic.

This is the time for all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics to unite and overcome this common but invisible enemy, the coronavirus which has wrought such havoc on the lives and livelihoods of Malaysians and damaged the national fabric of Malaysia whether homes, schools, universities, factories or offices.

The DAP is a Malaysian patriotic party owing loyalty, love and dedication to all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics.

This is why the DAP will go all out to co-operate to ensure that Malaysia wins the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, as the alternative is unthinkable, but we will be unsparing in our criticisms where things go wrong.

Let me be frank – the only redeeming feature of the Cabinet of the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri, is the appointment of Khairy Jamaluddin as the new Health Minister.

All Malaysians want Khairy Jamaluddin to succeed in winning the war against the Covid-19 pandemic which poses an existential threat to Malaysia and I am not shy to say that I am no exception.

I will be unsparing in my views and criticisms of Khairy in the war against Covid-19 pandemic, not because I want him to fail but because I want him to succeed!

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021)

Tahniah Khairy, kerana berjaya menurunkan kes harian baharu Covid-19 ke paras bawah 14,000 semalam — pertama kali sejak dua bulan lepas — sekarang beliau perlu bekerja lebih keras untuk menurunkan angka kes harian baharu Covid-19 ke paras bawah 4,000 seperti empat bulan yang lepas, yang mana sepatutnya menjadi salah satu dari tiga syarat untuk beralih dari Fasa 1 Pelan Pemulihan Negara

Tahniah kepada Menteri Kesihatan, Khairy Jamaluddin, kerana berjaya menurunkan kes harian baharu Covid-19 ke paras bawah 14,000 semalam — pertama kali sejak dua bulan lalu — dan sekarang perlu bekerja lebih keras untuk menurunkan angka kes harian baharu Covid-19 ke paras bawah 4,000 seperti empat bulan lalu dan yang mana sepatutnya menjadi salah satu daripada tiga syarat untuk beralih dari Fasa 1 Pelan Pemulihan Negara seperti diumumkan Perdana Menteri terdahulu pada 15 Jun 2021.

Ada lagi perkhabaran baik; angka kes kematian akibat Covid-19 menurun dari 487 kes (termasuk 161 kematian di luar fasiliti (BID)) pada Selasa kepada 116 kes (termasuk 29 BID) semalam.

Sejak beberapa hari lalu, saya telah berkali-kali menggesa Khairy untuk menjelaskan kedudukan sebenar berhubung kes kematian berkaitan Covid-19, terutama berhubung masalah tunggakan (backlog) pengurusan mayat di hospital kerajaan yang mana masih belum dianalisis dan dilakukan bedah siasat, kerana isu ini diselubungi misteri dan memberi kesan terhadap kredibiliti kerajaan dan Khairy sendiri dalam mempersembahkan data berkaitan Covid-19.

Ini adalah masa terbaik untuk Khairy berterus terang tentang situasi sebenar berhubung kematian akibat Covid-19 sejak zaman Menteri Kesihatan sebelum ini.

Selain itu, Khairy harus menjelaskan mengapa laman web baharu, CovidNow, hanya dikemaskini selepas jam 6 pagi hari ini ini, menyebabkan laman web Worldometer mengemaskini data kes kematian akibat Covid-19 di Malaysia semalam, pada jam 7 pagi hari ini.

Ada pihak yang mendakwa Malaysia telah berjaya dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19.

Jika mengalami gelombang Covid-19 terpanjang di dunia — berlarutan selama setahun dan tanpa tanda-tanda akan reda — dan merekodkan dua juta kes Covid-19 dan hampir menyebabkan hampir 25,000 terkorban (termasuk kira-kira 5,000 kes BID), dan meletakkan Malaysia di kedudukan nombor satu di dunia dalam kategori “kematian per sejuta penduduk sepanjang enam hari lalu” (kecuali negara-negara kecil dan negara-negara pulau) dianggap sebagai suatu kisah kejayaan, kita mungkin ada idea yang berbeza tentang maksud sebenar “kisah kejayaan”.

Dua hari lalu, China, yang mana pernah menjadi negara nombor satu dengan jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 tertinggi pada awal penularan wabak itu, turun ke kedudukan ke-110 antara negara-negara dengan jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 tertinggi, sementara Malaysia pula dilihat akan memintas negara lain esok, untuk berada di kedudukan ke-20 di dunia, sedangkan kita pernah berada di kedudukan ke-89 semasa kita menyambut Hari Malaysia ke-63 tahun lalu.

Negara manakah yang telah berjaya dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19?

Saya tidak akan membuang masa untuk menjawab persoalan cetek seumpama itu.

Covid-19 membawa ancaman kepada negara.

Situasi penularan wabak Covid-19 yang kian memburuk adalah sebab utama mengapa pemimpin Pakatan Harapan menandatangani memorandum persefahaman (MoU) kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) dengan Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri.

Inilah masanya untuk semua rakyat Malaysia tanpa mengira kaum, agama, kawasan atau latar belakang politik untuk bersatu dan melawan musuh bersama ini, iaitu coronavirus yang telah memusnahkan kehidupan dan mata pencarian rakyat Malaysia, selain merobek fabrik sosial Malaysia tidak kira di rumah, sekolah, pusat pengajian tinggi, kilang atau pejabat.

DAP adalah sebuah parti anak Malaysia yang patriotik yang sentiasa bersedia untuk mencurahkan taat setia, cinta dan dedikasi kepada semua rakyat Malaysia tanpa mengira kaum, agama, kawasan atau politik.

Ini sebabnya mengapa DAP akan memberikan kerjasama sepenuhnya untuk memastikan Malaysia menang dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19, namun kami akan tetap memberikan kritikan yang membina jika kerajaan melakukan sebarang kesalahan.

Biar saya berlaku jujur — satu-satunya berita baik dalam peristiwa pembentukan Kabinet Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri adalah pelantikan Khairy Jamaluddin sebagai Menteri Kesihatan.

Semua rakyat Malaysia mahu dan mengharapkan Khairy berjaya dalam mengemudi perang melawan Covid-19 yang mengancam negara, dan saya tidak segan untuk mengakui bahawa saya adalah seorang daripadanya.

Saya akan terus melontarkan pandangan dan kritikan terhadap Khairy dalam usahanya untuk memerangi Covid-19, bukan kerana saya mahu beliau tersungkur gagal tetapi sebaliknya untuk melihat beliau berjaya!

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Jumaat, 24 September 2021)

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Equal allocation for all MPs most welcome and hope it will usher in a more consultative and inclusive political democratic system in Malaysia

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I welcome the announcement by the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Special Functions), Mastura Mohd Yazid in Parliament today that both government and opposition MPs will be given equal allocation for the final four months of this year for their parliamentary constituencies.

She said that this move was in line with Prime Minister Ismail Sabri’s commitment to implement the transformation of Parliament.

I see this as a positive sign that the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) might succeed despite the gloomy forecast of many that there are no chance of its succeeding.

This is not because Ismail Sabri is a reformer but because he was forced by political circumstances to institute reform or he might end up, like the UMNO Parliamentary Whip Tajuddin Abdul Rahman said a “30-day Prime Minister”, or if longer, still the Prime Minister with the shortest tenure, shorter than Muhyiddin Yassin’s 17 months.

In the 10 days since the signing of the CSR MOU between Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan leaders, several government commitments have already started to be implemented.

It is irrelevant to Pakatan Harapan whether Ismail Sabri becomes a 30-day Prime Minister or the Prime Minister with the shortest tenure.

What we want is a political ceasefire or moratorium for the next 10 to 18 months so that Malaysians can concentrate every ounce of their energy and time on resolving the Covid-19 pandemic and reset institutional and parliamentary reforms to make Malaysia a world-class great nation.

We cannot allow the existential threat of the Covid-19 pandemic to continue a single day, as we have retrogressed to become the world’s worst performing nation in the Covid-19 pandemic, accumulating over two million Covid-19 cases and suffering nearly 25,000 Covid-19 deaths, losing to China and even to India and Indonesia.

This is why we must explain the CSR MOU to all Malaysians and why all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics, have a vested interest to ensure the success of the CSR MOU.

We must make the CSR MOU the MOU of the people of Malaysia.

If the CSR MOU fails, we must ensure that it is not because of the failure of the PH parties and leaders to fulfill their commitments, but because of the inability of Ismail Sabri to create a consensus to make the CSR MOU work.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a zoom meeting with DAP leaders in Negri Sembilan and Malacca on Thursday, September 24, 2021 at 10 pm)

Peruntukan sama rata untuk semua Ahli Parlimen dialu-alukan dan diharapkan dapat membawa sistem politik demokrasi yang lebih inklusif dan saksama di Malaysia

Saya mengalu-alukan pengumuman Timbalan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (Tugas-tugas Khas), Mastura Mohd Yazid di Parlimen hari ini yang mengumumkan semua Ahli Parlimen baik daripada pihak kerajaan atau pembangkang akan diberikan peruntukan sama rata untuk tempoh empat bulan terakhir ini untuk kawasan Parlimen masing-masing.

Beliau mengatakan tindakan ini selari dengan komitmen Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri untuk melaksanakan transformasi Parlimen.

Saya melihat perkara ini sebagai tanda positif memorandum persefahaman kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi mungkin akan berjaya walaupun terdapat ramai pihak yang menjangkakan kegagalannya.

Perkara ini bukannya terjadi kerana Ismail Sabri seorang reformasi, sebaliknya beliau dipaksa oleh keadaan politik semasa untuk melaksanakan reformasi. Jika tidak, beliau mungkin akan menjadi seperti apa yang dikatakan Whip Parlimen UMNO, Tajuddin Abdul Rahman, “Perdana Menteri 30 hari” atau sekiranya bertahan lebih lama sekalipun, perdana menteri dengan penggal yang lebih pendek berbanding dengan Muhyiddin Yassin.

Dalam 10 hari selepas menandatangani MOU CSR dengan Pakatan Harapan, beberapa komitmen kerajaan telah mula dilaksanakan.

Hakikat sama ada Ismail Sabri menjadi perdana menteri 30 hari atau perdana menteri dengan tempoh berkhidmat terpendek dalam sejarah ini tidaklah relevan untuk PH.

Apa yang kita mahukan adalah gencatan dan moratorium politik untuk tempoh 10 ke 18 bulan yang akan datang supaya semua rakyat Malaysia dapat menumpukan usaha dan tenaga untuk menyelesaikan wabak Covid-19 dan menetapkan semula hala tuju negara untuk menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia dengan reformasi parlimen dan institusi.

Kita tidak boleh biarkan ancaman Covid-19 ini untuk berterusan walaupun sehari lebih lama lagi, kerana sedia ada pun, kita telah menjadi salah satu negara dengan prestasi terburuk dalam mengendalikan wabak ini, mencatatkan lebih daripada dua juta kes dan lebih daripada 25,000 kematian akibat Covid-19, kalah kepada negara seperti China, dan juga India dan Indonesia.

Kerana inilah kita perlu menjelaskan MOU CSR ini kepada semua peringkat masyarakat, mengapa kita semua tanpa mengira kaum, agama, kawasan, atau latar belakang politik, mempunyai sebab bersama untuk melihat kejayaan MOU CSR ini.

Kita perlu jadikan MOU CSR ini MOU rakyat.

Sekiranya memorandum persefahaman ini gagal, kita perlu pastikan yang ia gagal bukan kerana kegagalan parti dan pemimpin PH untuk memenuhi komitmen mereka, sebaliknya kerana kegagalan Ismail Sabri untuk membentuk konsensus untuk menjayakan MOU CSR ini.

(Ucapan Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang dalam sesi Zoom bersama pemimpin DAP Negeri Sembilan dan Melaka pada hari Khamis, 24 September 2021, jam 10 malam)

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The 10-member steering committee of the CSR MOU will have a very  important role to ensure integrity of Malaysia Agreement 1963 and judicial independence

The confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan leaders on Sept. 10 has given rise to very divided public opinion.

There are those who oppose the CSR MOU on the grounds that the Opposition should not betray their  principles and objectives or feared that it would signify the demise of the Opposition.

Neither is true.

Those who have a chance to read the CSR MOU would know that the Opposition parties have neither betrayed their principles and objectives nor would it signify the end of the Opposition in Malaysia.

This is why one of the terms of the CSR MOU is its full disclosure, fully in accordance with the principles of transparency and accountability as we have no secret clauses or understandings apart from the CSR MOU.

We are in politics because we have a vision for Malaysia to become a better country – a world-class great nation. But this requires a long struggle counted in years and even decades as it  cannot be achieved overnight.

Fifty years ago, I first raised in Parliament the need for an anti-hopping law. Now, there is a possibility that it would be on the statute books.

For more than 50 years, DAP had advocated equal allocation for all Members of Parliament, whether government or opposition. Now, this is going to be a reality.

Should we forego the opportunity to realise some of our ideas and ideals because of an unique set of political circumstances, especially at a time when the country is faced with an existential threat  – the Covid-19 pandemic – and needs the  unity of all Malaysians regardless of race, religion, region or politics to fight this common  enemy?

There are those who believe that if Ismail Sabri reverses the tide of defeat and wins the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, he will be unbeatable in the15th General Election.

This thinking is wrong for two reasons.

Firstly, when the country is faced with an existential threat which has piled up over two million cases and claimed the lives of nearly 25,000 people – with nearly 5,000 Brought-in-Dead  (BID) Covid-19 deaths – all Malaysians must put their differences aside to protect  the lives, livelihoods and  the national fabrics of Malaysian society.

All Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics, must have one single and common duty – to win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

The second reason is that the theory that Ismail Sabri will be unbeatable in the 15th General Election if we help him to win the war against Covid-19 pandemic may not be correct at all.

Winston Churchill was the war hero of Great Britain  when he defeated Hitlerite  Germany in May 1945, but in the July 1945 General Election in United Kingdom, his Conservative Party was crushed by Labour Party which won a landslide victory with 393 seats against Conservative’s 197 seats.

Who will win the 15th General Election will depend on who will have a vision for a better future for all Malaysians.

We believe we have a better vision for the future  for all Malaysians  although it would require a long-term political work counted in years and even decades.

One important reason why we have slided so badly in the world league of great nations is our failure to leverage on the talents and abilities of all Malaysians arising from the refusal to accept the Malaysia is a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious nation as recognised by the Malaysian Constitution and the Rukun Negara.

We must return to the basic principles enshrined in the Constitution and the Rukun Negara.

This is why the 10-member steering committee of the CSR MOU will have a very important role to play to ensure  the integrity of Malaysia Agreement 1963 and judicial independence so that Malaysia can achieve its destiny to be a world-class great nation.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a zoom meeting with Sabah and Sarawak DAP leaders on Friday, Sept. 23, 2021 at 10 pm)

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Why has Malaysia’s daily new Covid-19 cases increased from 3.5 times to  5.7 times that of Indonesia in the 26 days Khairy Jamaluddin had been the new Health Minister?

Yesterday, Malaysia recorded 14,554 new daily Covid-19 cases and 250 daily Covid-19 deaths, while Indonesia recorded 2,227 new daily Covid-19 cases and 144 Covid-19 deaths.

This is the 37th consecutive day that Malaysia had more daily new Covid-19 cases than Indonesia since August 18, 2021, and except for two days since Sept. 6, 2021,  Malaysia had more Covid-19 daily deaths than Indonesia for 16 days. For the last  seven days, daily Covid-19 deaths  in Indonesia have been below 200 cases.

In contrast, Malaysia is still struggling to reduce the daily new Covid-19 cases to below 14,000 cases and the daily Covid-19 deaths to below 300 deaths. In fact, in the past fortnight  between 11th to 24th September, Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 deaths had ranged from 116 deaths on 23rd September (the only day it fell below 200 deaths) to 592 deaths on Sept. 11, 2021.

It is a deplorable  state of affairs that so far, there are no answers from the Ministry of Health why Malaysia’s daily new Covid-19 cases increased from 3.5 times to  5.7 times that of Indonesia in the 26 days Khairy Jamaluddin had been the new Health Minister?

The daily Covid-19 death situation is even worse. On August 30, Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 death figures were 52% that of Indonesia, but on September 24, Malaysia’s Covid-19 deaths figures were more than 73.6% that of Indonesia!

Today , we will become the world’s No 20th country with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, when 12 months ago, we were ranked No 89.

The first step for Malaysia  to become a world-class great nation is to break away from the ranks of the world’s worst-performing nations in the Covid-19 pandemic by demonstrating that Malaysia could do better in the Covid-19 pandemic than Indonesia, a country which has more than eight times Malaysia’s population.

But Malaysians are still waiting for such signs.

Yesterday, among the 250 Covid-19 deaths, there were 49 Brought-in-Dead (BID) death cases.

The Health Ministry should devise a strategy where the daily BID Covid-19 death cases are below ten cases, and not as high as 161 BID Covid-19 death cases on Sept. 22. Malaysians await the Health Minister announcing such  a new strategy.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Saturday, 25th September 2021)

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Is Malaysia ready for opening up to “live with Covid”?

I have been receiving expert advice on the Covid-19 pandemic by medical specialists.

The following is one of the expert advice which I have received on the latest Covid-19 pandemic and posing the question whether Malaysia is ready for opening up to   “live with Covid”.

In view of the  importance of the issues raised by this medical specialist, I am making public his concerns about the latest Covid-19 pandemic:

“This week has been tough to keep track of what the new sheriff in town is doing. It certainly looks like he is trying to revamp the whole reporting system of testing which affects the new case numbers and also the positivity rates.

“He is also ‘clearing the death’ backlog which account for the often erratic numbers that we see.  And the fact that these numbers are reported on different days, makes things more confusing.

“There were three  days this week, when the deaths were 487, drop to 116 the next day, and then rise to 250 the following day.

“This is not the way  of infectious disease fatality rates, unless some miracle happened?

“All the new sheriff did was to  revamp the system, so that reporting is no longer consistent with the previous minister, and the  data  no longer comparable.

“If you are kind to the new sheriff, you may say that the last Minister had an improper system resulting in backlogs and incorrect numbers and this fellow is righting the system.

“If you are not so nice to new sheriff, you may conclude that this new fellow is manipulating the system, to give numbers that will look better under him, so that he can control the narrative and ‘save Malaysia from Covid’.

“Are the numbers really coming down? Is it safe to move to the ‘endemic phase’?

Without good data sets and comparable data sets, it is so hard to know.

“From whatever data that we have to compare, it does look like the new cases have reduced by about 10%. The deaths have not and the positive rates remain about the same. Basically the signals are mixed.

“DG says that the national Ro is less than 1, which is good, but that Ro is based on inadequate testing. To dilute the testing numbers, I hear that even home testings are nowadays included as testing, and this adds to much inaccuracies.

“I can see that the Government is planning to open up the country soon. They have repeatedly said that they want us to learn to live with the virus and that to  have ‘zero Covid’ is  an impossibility.

“BUT are we ready to open up and ‘live with the virus’?

“Have we provided adequate protection for the vulnerable?

“Are there adequate hospital facilities because as we allow interstate travel and tourist ‘bubbles’ we must be prepared for a surge until things settle down and find their own level?

“So timing and the social discipline of the people are important. There are models to follow like Ireland, Denmark and Germany. Even Singapore is experiencing a mini-surge now as they open a little two weeks ago, and they have a higher fully vaccinated population.

“Some ministers speak as if 70% is a magic vaccination number  which will allow us to open up once will reach that number?

“I would like to ask them to take a good look at Israel, Iceland and even Singapore as models to learn from.

“We are all for opening up, as the economy is badly damaged. But no point opening up carelessly and  then needing to lock down again.

“There is some talk about vaccinating children before school open? One simple look at the chart provided by MOH will show that children are by and large resistant to Covid.

“They have few ACE 2 receptors for the virus to attach and cause sickness. Yes they may get infected but they do not get serious sickness and fatality is very low.

“The argument is that those vaccines in young children will do more harm than Covid 19 itself.

“The situation in Sarawak is worrisome. Vaccination seems progressing well. BUT the new cases are still rising and so also the deaths and also the positive rates, telling us that there is obviously many more cases in the community.

“We may have to take a look at the vaccines and the whole vaccination program. It does appear that the vaccines are not working? If the vaccines are working, we should have a Selangor-like situation, where with more people fully vaxxed, cases should decline and eventually deaths too. The positive rates should also decline.

“In mid-July, both Malaysia and Indonesia were experiencing surges in new cases of Covid. Indonesia is our neighbour,  a very much larger country with thousands of Islands, but they got their Covid surge down within weeks.

“They are now averaging daily case in the 2-3 K range while we are still in 5 digits. We are almost within touching distance to be number 20 in the world. We are just taking too long to get Covid under control.

“We have still not receive word on new contracts for those MO on contracts? Has the issue been solved amicably?

“Will we have enough MOs on duty at year end, when these present batch of contract MO finish their contract?

“It is time to talk to them and find a solution. I am concerned as MOs are very much  ‘boots on the ground’ that we need.”

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Sunday, 26th September 2021)

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Khairy’s ten  challenges in the Covid-19 pandemic on Budget 2022 Day in Parliament on Oct. 29

Yesterday, Malaysia sets two  new dubious records in the Covid-19 pandemic.

Firstly, we  “improved” our world ranking to No. 20 among nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases with 13,899 daily new Covid-19 cases and secondly, we  passed the 25,000-mark for Covid-19 deaths, as we have a cumulative total of 25,159 deaths after yesterday’s daily 228 Covid-19 deaths.

Can we slow down the load of  new Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths so that by Budget 2022 Day on Oct. 29, Malaysia would not be ranked No 19 among nations with the most cumulative total of 2.7 million Covid-19 cases with close to 32,000 deaths?

This is the challenge to the new Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri and the new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin.

Yesterday, we ranked the world’s No.8 in daily new Covid-19 cases and No. 7 in daily Covid-19 deaths.

Khairy has ten challenges by Budget 2022 Day in  Parliament on Oct. 29, 2021:

1.    To remove Malaysia from the world’s Top 20 countries for daily new Covid-19 cases;

2.    To remove Malaysia from the world’s Top 20 countries for daily Covid-19 deaths;

3.    To ensure that in the category “Deaths per 1 million population”, Malaysia does not top Asia and ASEAN except for  mini-states and tiny island nations.

4.    To ensure that Malaysia does not reach 2.7 million Covid-19  cases by Budget 2022 Day;

5.    To ensure that Malaysia does not come near 32,000 deaths  as cumulative total of Covid-19 deaths by Budget 2022 Day.

6.    To ensure that Malaysia never gets to be ranked No. 19 among nations in the world for cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.

7.    To ensure that Malaysia falls out of  the ranking among the world’s Top 40 countries for cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.

8.    To  bring down daily new Covid-19 cases to three digit figures.

9.    To  bring the Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths to single-digit figures.

10.  To bring  daily Covid-19 death to single-digit figures.

The ball is in Khairy’s court.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Sunday, 26th September 2021)

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Again Congrats to Khairy for the 13,104 Covid-19 cases yesterday, hoping it will lead to less than 10,000 daily  new Covid-19 cases from October 1 and four-digit  daily new Covid-19 cases by 2022 Budget Day on Oct. 29

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Again congrats to Khairy Jamaluddin for the 13,104 Covid-19 cases yesterday, hoping it will lead to less than 10,000 daily new Covid-19 cases from October 1 and four-digit daily new Covid-19 cases by 2022 Budget Day on Oct. 29, 2021.

As I congratulated Khairy last Friday when Malaysia for the first time in two months fell below the 14,000 daily new Covid-19 cases last Thursday, I said the Health Minster’s “next hurdle” was to bring down daily new Covid-19 cases to below 4,000 cases as it was announced by the former Prime Minister on 15th June as one of the three thresholds for transiting from Phase One of the National Recovery Plan.

But it was uncertain whether the Covid-19 pandemic had turned the corner as the 13,754 Covid-19 cases last Thursday was followed by 14,554 cases on Friday and 13,899 cases on Saturday. Let us hope that the 13,104 Covid-19 cases yesterday signifies a beginning of the downward curve of one of the longest Covid-19 waves in the world.

However, the report of 278 daily Covid-19 deaths (with 99 Brought-in-Dead cases, bringing the total BID Covid-19 deaths to 5,022), which placed Malaysia as the world’s Top No. 4th nation in daily new Covid-19 deaths, is not good and more efforts need to be made to reduce the Covid-19 fatality rate to daily double-digit figures.

I do not apologise for my obsession with the Covid-19 pandemic and expectation that Khairy must produce results in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic as it posed an existential threat to Malaysia.

The primary reason for the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri and Pakatan Harapan leaders is the worsening Covid-19 pandemic, which has passed two million Covid-19 cases and caused over 25,000 deaths.

This is the time for all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics to unite and overcome this common but invisible enemy, as the coronavirus has wrought unimaginable havoc on the lives and livelihoods of Malaysians and damaged the national fabric of Malaysia whether in homes, schools, universities, factories or offices.

All Malaysians want Khairy Jamaluddin to succeed in winning the war against the Covid-19 pandemic which poses an existential threat to Malaysia.

My views and criticisms of Khairy’s efforts in the war against Covid-19 pandemic has only one objective – I want Khairy to succeed and not to fail in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 27th September 2021)
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Tahniah sekali lagi kepada Khairy untuk 13,104 kes Covid-19 yang direkodkan semalam, harapnya angka kes jangkitan akan terus menurun ke bawah paras 10,000 bermula 1 Oktober dan menurun ke paras empat angka menjelang pembentangan Belanjawan 2022 pada 29 Oktober.

Tahniah sekali lagi kepada Khairy Jamaluddin untuk 13,104 kes Covid-19 yang direkodkan semalam, harapnya angka kes jangkitan akan terus menurun ke bawah paras 10,000 bermula 1 Oktober dan menurun ke paras empat angka menjelang pembentangan Belanjawan 2022 pada 29 Oktober.

Semasa saya mengucapkan tahniah kepada Khairy pada Jumaat minggu lalu, selepas Malaysia buat pertama kali mencatatkan angka kes harian baharu Covid-19 di bawah paras 14,000 dalam tempoh dua bulan pada Khamis lalu, saya turut menegaskan bahawa Menteri Kesihatan itu perlu bekerja lebih keras untuk menurunkan angka kes jangkitan ke bawah paras 4,000 memandangkan ia adalah salah satu daripada tiga syarat untuk beralih dari Fasa 1 Pelan Pemulihan Negara seperti diumumkan Perdana Menteri terdahulu pada 15 Jun yang lalu.

Namun, masih terdapat ketidakpastian sama ada penularan wabak ini semakin reda kerana kita mencatatkan 13,754 kes jangkitan pada Khamis lalu dan disusuli dengan peningkatan sebanyak 14,554 kes pada Jumaat dan menurun kepada 13,899 kes pada Sabtu. Harapnya, 13,104 kes jangkitan yang dicatatkan semalam, menandakan penurunan berterusan lekuk jangkitan dalam gelombang penularan Covid-19 terpanjang di dunia.

Pun begitu, 278 kes kematian akibat Covid-19 (dengan 99 daripadanya adalah kematian di luar fasaliti (BID), menjadikan kes terkumpul BID terkini sebanyak 5,022), yang meletakkan Malaysia sebagai negara keempat di dunia dengan kes kematian baharu akibat jangkitan Covid-19 tertinggi, bukan sesuatu yang bagus dan usaha keras diperlukan untuk menurunkan angka korban akibat jangkitan Covid-19 ke paras dua angka.

Saya tidak akan meminta maaf kerana menunjukkan obsesi yang mendalam terhadap wabak Covid-19 serta mengharapkan Khairy berjaya dalam perang melawan Covid-19 kerana penularan wabak ini telah membawa ancaman yang besar terhadap Malaysia.

Situasi penularan wabak Covid-19 yang kian memburuk, mengakibatkan lebih 2 juta jangkitan dan lebih 25,000 nyawa terkorban, adalah sebab utama mengapa pemimpin Pakatan Harapan menandatangani memorandum persefahaman (MoU) kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) dengan Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri.

Inilah masanya untuk semua rakyat Malaysia tanpa mengira kaum, agama, kawasan atau latar belakang politik untuk bersatu dan melawan musuh bersama ini, iaitu coronavirus yang telah memusnahkan kehidupan dan mata pencarian rakyat Malaysia, selain merobek fabrik sosial Malaysia tidak kira di rumah, sekolah, pusat pengajian tinggi, kilang atau pejabat.

Semua rakyat Malaysia mahu dan mengharapkan Khairy berjaya dalam mengemudi perang melawan Covid-19 yang mengancam negara.

Pandangan dan kritikan saya terhadap Khairy dalam usahanya untuk memerangi Covid-19 hanya mempunyai satu objektif — untuk melihat beliau berjaya dan tidak gagal dalam perang melawan Covid-19.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Isnin, 27 September 2021)

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DAP Branches should organise zoom or hybrid-zoom meetings to explain the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) to the Malaysian public

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It is two weeks after the signing of the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan leaders, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu and Wilfred Madius Tangau but many people still believe that the CSR MOU was a betrayal of the principles and objectives by the Opposition leaders or that it was a “trap” by Ismail Sabri.

DAP branches should organise zoom or hybrid-zoom meetings to explain the CSR MOU so that the Malaysian public will know that that there is no basis for the belief that the MOU was a betrayal by the Opposition leaders of their principles and objectives or that it was a “trap” by Ismail Sabri.

The case of Nelson Mandela who chose negotiations with the South African apartheid government despite his 23 years’ of incarceration is a good example.

Although Mandela knew that negotiations with the South African National Party would be regarded as a sign of weakness and betrayal, the alternative – and in the case of Covid-19 pandemic, more millions of cases and more tens of thousands of deaths – was too terrible to contemplate.

The CSR MOU will set up a bipartisan steering committee which will have an important role to play – not only to ensure the implementation of the various measures to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic and to reset the political framework with institutional and parliamentary reforms, but to ensure judicial independence and the full implementation of the Malaysia Agreement 1963.

Various proposals have been made to ensure judicial independence and the full implementation of Malaysia Agreement 1963, including the proposal that Prime Minister should not be involved in the appointment of the Chief Justice and the transparency of the final report of MA63.

It will be up to the steering committee to fulfil public expectations on these two issues.

The CSR MOU will end the political intrigues, plots and counterplot surrounding who will be the Prime Minister and focus Parliament single-mindedly on the issue to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic and minimise its adverse economic and social effects as well as to reset the political system with institutional and parliamentary reforms for the next 10-18 months.

The political ceasefire or moratorium does not mean the end of politics which brought all the Members of Parliament to Parliament, as the mandate as to who is to form the government is only deferred until the 15th General Election, whether in 2022 or 2023.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a zoom meeting with DAP leaders on Sunday, September 26, 2021 at 11 pm)

Cawangan-cawangan DAP perlu mengadakan sidang zoom atau perjumpaan secara hibrid untuk menjelaskan memorandum persefahaman kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) kepada rakyat

Dua minggu telah berlalu selepas memorandum persefahaman kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) di antara Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri, dan pemimpin Pakatan Harapan, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu, dan Wilfred Madius Tangau, tetapi masih ramai orang yang merasakan memorandum ini adalah satu pengkhianatan prinsip dan matlamat para pemimpin pembangkang dan merupakan satu “jerat” daripada Ismail Sabri.

Cawangan-cawangan DAP perlu mengadakan sidang zoom atau perjumpaan secara hibrid untuk menjelaskan memorandum persefahaman kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) kepada rakyat.

Kisah Nelson Mandela yang memilih untuk berbincang dengan kerajaan apartheid walaupun selepas dipenjarakan selama 23 tahun adalah satu contoh yang baik.

Walaupun Mandela tahu yang perbincangan dengan Parti Kebangsaan Afrika Selatan ini akan dilihat sebagai satu tanda kelemahan dan pengkhianatan, alternatifnya — seperti mana dalam keadaan Covid-19 yang dihadapi kita sekarang, berjuta lagi kes dan lebih ramai kematian akibat Covid-19 — dilihat sebagai satu perkara yang terlalu buruk untuk dibayangkan.

MOU CSR ini akan menubuhkan jawatankuasa pemandu bipartisan yang mempunyai peranan yang penting — bukan sahaja untuk memastikan pelaksanaan pelbagai tindakan untuk berhadapan dengan wabak Covid-19 dan menetapkan semula rangka kerja negara kita dengan reformasi institusi dan parlimen, tetapi juga untuk memastikan terdapatnya kebebasan sistem kehakiman dan pelaksanaan penuh Perjanjian Malaysia 1963.

Pelbagai cadangan telah dibuat untuk memastikan terdapatnya kebebasan sistem kehakiman dan pelaksanaan penuh Perjanjian Malaysia 1963, termasuklah cadangan supaya Perdana Menteri tidak lagi terlibat dalam pelantikan Ketua Hakim Negara dan ketelusan dalam menerbitkan laporan akhir MA63.

Jawatankuasa pemandu perlu bertanggungjawab untuk memenuhi jangkaan rakyat mengenai kedua-dua isu ini.

MOU CSR ini juga perlu menamatkan sebarang rancangan politik mengenai persoalan siapakah yang akan menjadi Perdana Menteri, sebaliknya menumpukan seluruh usaha Parlimen kepada usaha untuk mengatasi masalah penularan wabak Covid-19 dan mengurangkan kesan-kesan buruknya terhadap ekonomi dan kehidupan sosial dan juga menetapkan semula hala tuju negara dengan reformasi institusi dan parlimen dalam tempoh 10 ke 18 bulan yang akan datang.

Gencatan atau moratorium politik ini tidak bermakna penamat kepada era politik yang membawa semua Ahli-ahli Parlimen ini ke Parlimen, kerana mandat untuk menentukan siapa yang membentuk kerajaan ini hanya ditangguhkan sehingga Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, baik pada tahun 2022 atau 2023.

(Ucapan Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang dalam sesi Zoom bersama pemimpin DAP pada hari Ahad, 26 September 2021, jam 11 malam)

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The 12th Malaysia Plan – Prime Minister  and former Prime Ministers

While the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri was stonily reading from the tele-prompter his 12th Malaysia Plan speech to launch the 12th Malaysia Plan in Parliament yesterday, I cannot but look at two former Prime Ministers, one who had presented two five-year Malaysia Plans in Parliament and one who must have thought he should be at the lectern delivering the 12th Malaysia Plan speech if not for the sabotage by his erstwhile political comrades just over a month ago.

They were seated on the same row, although one place apart – but they had no contact or interaction with each other and for both, the other former Prime Minister could be as far away as in a foreign land.

The former Prime Minister who had presented five five-year Malaysia Plans in Parliament from 1981-2001 was absent or it would be most interesting to speculate what was going through his mind during Ismail’s speech.

There was another Member of Parliament who should be presenting the 12th Malaysia Plan if not for the Sheraton Move conspiracy in February 2020 which negatived the mandate by the electorate in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 and ushered Malaysia into an era of illegitimate and backdoor governments, using all sorts of tricks and stratagems to keep such a government alive – including the declaration of an unconstitutional emergency.

Would his chance to be Prime Minister come in the 15th General Election, whether in 2022 or 2023?

Be that as it may, Malaysia is in a new political landscape as a result of confidence-supply-reform (CFR) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri and Pakatan Harapan leaders, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu and Wilfred Madius Tangau on 10th September 2021 so that all Members of Parliament can single-mindedly focus on winning the war against the Covid-19 pandemic which had caused over two million Covid-19 cases and over 25,000 deaths, and reset institutional and parliamentary reforms to pave the way for economic, social and national recovery.

Malaysia faces a new challenge with the launch of the 12th Malaysia Plan yesterday.

Can Malaysia rise like a phoenix to triumph over the setbacks and disasters of the past or will it end up as a kleptocracy, kakistocracy and a failed state as forewarned by the Covid-19 pandemic where Malaysia ended in the past year as one of worst-performing nations in the world?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021)

Rancangan Malaysia ke-12 — Perdana Menteri dan mantan-mantan Perdana Menteri

Semasa Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri membaca ucapan Rancangan Malaysia Ke-12 beliau secara kaku daripada mesin teleprompter beliau di Parlimen semalam, saya tidak dapat mengelak daripada memerhatikan gelagat dua orang mantan Perdana Menteri, seorang yang pernah membentangkan dua RMK di Parlimen dan seorang lagi yang pastinya merasakan beliaulah yang sepatutnya menyampaikan ucapan pelancaran RMK-12 semalam jika beliau tidak disabotaj oleh rakan-rakan politik beliau sebulan yang lepas.

Mereka duduk di barisan yang sama, dipisahkan dengan satu tempat duduk — tetapi tidak ada sebarang hubungan atau interaksi di antara keduanya dan bagi beliau, mantan Perdana Menteri yang seorang lagi itu seperti berada di negara asing.

Mantan Perdana Menteri yang telah membentangkan lima RMK di antara tahun 1981 sehingga tahun 2001 pula tidak ada di Dewan. Jika tidak, pastinya menarik untuk meneka apa yang sedang berlegar dalam fikiran beliau semasa ucapan pelancaran Ismail Sabri.

Terdapat juga seorang lagi Ahli Parlimen yang sepatutnya membentangkan RMK-12 ini tetapi terhalang akibat berlakunya Langkah Sheraton pada bulan Februari 2020, yang menafikan mandat rakyat dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 pada 9 Mei 2018 dan membawa masuk Malaysia ke dalam era kerajaan pintu belakang yang tidak sah, yang menggunakan pelbagai helah untuk terus kekal berkuasa, termasuklah dengan mengumumkan darurat yang mencabuli perlembagaan.

Adakah peluang untuk beliau menjadi Perdana Menteri akan tercapai dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, baik pada tahun 2022 atau 2023?

Apa-apa pun, Malaysia kini berada dalam suatu landskap politik baharu hasil daripada persetujuan memorandum persefahaman kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi yang dimeterai di antara Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri, dan pemimpin Pakatan Harapan, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu, dan Wifred Madius Tangau pada 10 September 2021 bagi membolehkan semua Ahli-ahli Parlimen menumpukan segala usaha untuk memenangi perang melawan wabak Covid-19 yang telah menjangkiti lebih daripada dua juta orang di negara kita dan mengorbankan lebih daripada 25,000 nyawa, dan juga untuk membolehkan kita menetapkan reformasi institusi dan parlimen untuk membuka jalan kepada pemulihan ekonomi dan kehidupan sosial dalam negara.

Malaysia berhadapan dengan cabaran baharu dengan pelancaran Rancangan Malaysia ke-12 semalam.

Bolehkah kita kembali semula untuk mengatasi semua kemunduran dan bencana yang dihadapi sebelum ini atau adakah kita akan berakhir sebagai sebuah kleptokrasi, kakistokrasi, dan sebuah negara yang gagal, seperti pengendalian wabak Covid-19 kita yang dilihat sebagai salah satu negara dengan prestasi terburuk di dunia?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Parlimen pada hari Selasa, 28 September 2021)

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With daily new Covid-19 cases down to 10,959 cases, the next targets are to descend to four-digit numbers and to go lower than the 4,000 cases Malaysia was supposed to be in three months ago

(Versi BM)

The daily new Covid-19 cases was down to 10,959 cases yesterday – the lowest for two-and-a-half months since 13th July 2021.

This is the best news for Khairy Jamaluddin since he was sworn in as the new Health Minister on August 30, as before July 13, the daily new Covid-19 cases were in four-digit numbers.

Now the next targets for Malaysia are to descend to four-digit numbers and go lower than the 4,000 cases of new daily cases that the country was supposed to be in three months ago under the National Recovery Plan.

Unfortunately, Malaysia’s descent to 10,959 cases, hopefully signifying the decline of Covid-19 cases to four-digit and then three-digit numbers, have been eclipsed by three events:

Firstly, Malaysia passing the 2.2 million-mark for cumulative total of Covid-19 cases yesterday, threatening to overtake Ukraine to be ranked No. 19 among nations in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases;

Secondly, Malaysia’s continued high Covid-19 death rates, with 258 Covid-19 deaths yesterday (with 75 Brought-in-Dead Covid-19 deaths), raising the cumulative total of Covid-19 deaths to 25,695 Covid-19 deaths. At this rate, Malaysia would have more than 26,000 Covid-19 deaths by the end of this month.

Thirdly, Malaysia’s drop in daily new Covid-19 cases have been completely overshadowed by the even more dramatic declines of Covid-19 cases and deaths in other countries, resulting in Malaysia have more daily Covid-19 deaths than Indonesia (118 yesterday), Thailand (101), Vietnam (174), India (137), Brazil (169), Turkey (206), France (74) and United Kingdom (40).

Yesterday, Malaysia was the world’s Top No. 4th country in daily Covid-19 deaths, losing out only to Russia (779), Iran (289) and USA (264). This is an area which needs Khairy’s urgent attention!

Even in daily new Covid-19 cases, Malaysia has lost out to Indonesia, which had fallen from the peak of 56,757 cases on July 15 to 1,300 cases yesterday, while Malaysia is trying to engineer a descent from the peak of 24,599 cases on 26th August to four-digit numbers. Indonesia has declined to four-digit daily new cases for a whole month and looks set to decline to three-digit numbers before Malaysia.

We have also lost out to Thailand and Vietnam, which had respectively 10,288 and 9,362 daily new Covid-19 cases yesterday. India had fallen from its peak of 414,433 cases on May 6 to 16,697 cases yesterday – a reduction of 96 per cent!

Is it too much to expect the Malaysian peak of new daily cases of 24,599 cases on 26th August to be reduced to three-digit figures?

Lets hope that with the lowest daily new Covid-19 cases in two-and-a-half months marking the launch of the 12th Malaysia Plan by Prime Minister Ismail Sabri in Parliament yesterday, the only way for daily new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia to go is down and not up!

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, September 28, 2021)

Dengan angka kes harian baharu Covid-19 kini menurun kepada 10,959 kes, sasaran berikutnya adalah untuk menurunkan angka kes kepada julat empat angka dan seterusnya ke bawah paras 4,000 — angka kes yang sepatutnya dicatatkan Malaysia pada tiga bulan lalu

Angka kes harian baharu Covid-19 menurun kepada 10,959 kes semalam — angka terendah dalam tempoh dua bulan setengah sejak 13 Julai 2021.

Ini adalah berita baik buat Khairy Jamaluddin sejak beliau mengangkat sumpah sebagai Menteri Kesihatan pada 30 Ogos, memandangkan sebelum 13 Julai, angka kes harian baharu Covid-19 yang direkodkan adalah pada julat empat angka.

Kini, sasaran seterusnya untuk Malaysia adalah untuk menurunkan angka kes kepada julat empat angka dan seterusnya ke bawah paras 4,000 kes — angka kes harian baharu Covid-19 yang sepatutnya dicatatkan Malaysia pada tiga bulan lalu di bawah Pelan Pemulihan Negara.

Pun begitu, Peristiwa angka kes jangkitan menurun kepada 10,959, yang memberi bayangan penurunan berterusan angka kes Covid-19 kepada julat empat angka dan seterusnya julat tiga angka, tenggelam ekoran tiga peristiwa berikut:

Pertama, Malaysia telah melepasi paras 2.2 juta untuk jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 semalam, bakal memintas Ukraine untuk berada di kedudukan ke-19 antara negara-negara dengan kes keseluruhan Covid-19 tertinggi.

Kedua, Malaysia terus mencatatkan kadar kematian akibat Covid-19 yang tinggi, dengan 258 kematian akibat wabak itu dicatatkan semalam (75 daripadanya adalah kematian di luar fasiliti (BID)), menjadikan jumlah kematian terkumpul sebanyak 25,695 kes. Pada kadar ini, Malaysia akan mengumpulkan lebih 26,000 kematian akibat Covid-19 menjelang akhir bulan ini.

Ketiga, penurunan jumlah kes harian baharu Covid-19 di negara ini dibayangi penurunan ketara dalam angka kes jangkitan dan kematian akibat Covid-19 yang berlaku di negara-negara lain. Malaysia merekodkan angka kes kematian akibat Covid-19 yang lebih tinggi berbanding Indonesia (118 semalam), Thailand (101), Vietnam (174), India (137), Brazil (169), Turki (206), Perancis (74) dan United Kingdom (40).

Semalam, Malaysia ditempatkan sebagai negara ke-4 di dunia dengan angka kematian akibat Covid-19 tertinggi, tewas hanya kepada Rusia (779), Iran (289) dan Amerika Syarikat (264). Perkara ini memerlukan perhatian segera daripada Khairy!

Malaysia juga tewas kepada Indonesia dalam kategori kes harian baharu Covid-19 — Indonesia mencatatkan penurunan dari puncak 56,757 kes pada 15 Julai kepada 1,300 kes semalam, sementara Malaysia masih bergelut untuk menurunkan angka kes jangkitan dari puncak 24,599 pada 26 Ogos kepada julat empat angka. Indonesia telah menurunkan kes mereka ke julat empat angka selama sebulan dan bakal mencatatkan kes tiga angka lebih awal daripada Malaysia.

Kita juga tewas kepada Thailand dan Vietnam, masing-masing merekodkan 10,288 dan 9,362 kes harian baharu Covid-19 semalam. Kes Covid-19 di India menurun dari puncak 414,433 kes pada 6 Mei kepada 16,697 kes semalam — pengurangan sebanyak 96%!

Adakah keterlaluan untuk mengharapkan kes harian baharu Covid-19 di Malaysia menurun dari puncak 24,599 kes pada 26 Ogos kepada julat tiga angka?

Saya berharap angka kes harian baharu Covid-19 terendah dalam tempoh dua bulan setengah yang menandakan pelancaran Rancangan Malaysia ke-12 oleh Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri di Parlimen semalam, akan terus menurun dan tidak meningkat pada hari-hari mendatang!

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 28 September 2021)

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Can Malaysia rise up like Ireland to the top of the Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking (September 2021) when Ireland was in January ranked No. 39 among the 53 biggest economies

(Versi BM)

In the September 2021 Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking released yesterday, Ireland tops the world and the rest of the Top Ten nations are Spain, Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, UAE, France, Switzerland., Canada and Norway.

Ireland was in January 2021 ranked No. 39 with the world’s worst rate of infection, with its daily new Covid-19 caseload shooting up from three-digit numbers at end of December to four-digit numbers, reaching a daily peak of 8,227 cases on January 8, 2021.

January was Malaysia’s best ranking of No.16 in the monthly Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking, when an emergency was declared to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. In August, we fell to the very bottom of ranking of the 53 nations – a fall of 37 places.

In September 2021, Malaysia improved two rankings to No. 51 but the last five rankings were all ASEAN nations, namely Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Philippines.

Can the 12th Malaysia Plan cause Malaysia to rise up from Ranking No. 53 in August to No. 1 in the Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking like Ireland from No. 39 in January to No. 1 ranking in September?

This will not be an easy challenge for the new Prime Minister and new Heath Minster, for since the swearing-in of the Ismail Sabri’s Cabinet on August 30, Malaysia has not been able to break below the 10,000 daily new “Covid-19 cases.

September has been described as Malaysia’s deadliest month for the Covid-19 pandemic as it is likely to claim a toll of 10,000 deaths.

Already, Malaysia is becoming the worst-performing nation in ASEAN, definitely in terms of daily Covid-19 deaths if not in daily new Covid-19 cases as Philippines has more cases.

Yesterday, Malaysia reported more Covid-19 deaths than any other ASEAN nation – Malaysia has 240 deaths as compared to Indonesia 124, Philippines 91, Thailand 129, Vietnam 178 and Myanmar 48.

The record of yesterday’s new Covid-19 cases are: Malaysia 11,332, Indonesia 2057, Philipppines 13,848, Thailand 9489, Vietnam 452, Myanmar 1630 and Singapore 2236.

Malaysia has a long way to go if the 12th Malaysia Plan presented by the Prime Minister on Monday is to be the game-changer and propel the country from being ranked No. 52 to the very top of the Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking.

Dare the new Prime Minister have such an idea for Malaysia to excel next year?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2021)

Mampukah Malaysia bangkit seperti Ireland yang kini berada di kedudukan teratas dalam Carta Ketahanan Covid Bloomberg (September 2021) selepas berada di tempat ke-39 daripada 53 negara dengan nilai ekonomi terbesar di dunia pada Januari lalu

Dalam Carta Ketahanan Covid bagi September 2021 yang dikeluarkan Bloomberg semalam, Ireland ditempatkan di kedudukan teratas diikuti negara-negara seperti Sepanyol, Belanda, Finland, Denmark, UAE, Perancis, Switzerland, Kanada dan Norway.

Pada Januari 2021, Ireland ditempatkan di kedudukan ke-39 dengan kadar jangkitan terburuk di dunia; kes harian baharu Covid-19 melonjak dari julat tiga angka pada hujung Disember kepada julat empat angka dan mencapai puncak 8,227 kes pada 8 Januari 2021.

Malaysia mencipta rekod terbaik pada Januari apabila ditempatkan di kedudukan ke-16 dalam carta tersebut, semasa darurat diisytiharkan dengan alasan untuk melawan wabak Covid-19. Pada Ogos, kedudukan negara kita menjunam ke kedudukan tercorot — jatuh 37 anak tangga.

Pada September 2021, kedudukan Malaysia melonjak dua anak tangga ke kedudukan ke-51, namun negara-negara yang menduduki lima kedudukan terakhir dalam carta tersebut adalah negara-negara ASEAN iaitu Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam dan Filipina.

Mampukah Rancangan Malaysia ke-12 menjadi pemangkin untuk Malaysia bangkit dari kedudukan ke-53 pada Ogos kepada kedudukan pertama dalam Carta Ketahanan Covid Bloomberg seperti yang dilakukan Ireland apabila berjaya melonjakkan kedudukan mereka dari kedudukan ke-39 pada Januari kepada kedudukan pertama pada September tahun ini?

Ini adalah tugas paling getir yang perlu dipikul Perdana Menteri baharu dan Menteri Kesihatan baharu. Sejak Kabinet Ismail Sabri mengangkat sumpah pada 30 Ogos, Malaysia masih tidak mampu untuk menurunkan angka kes jangkitan harian Covid-19 ke bawah paras 10,000 kes.

September dianggap sebagai “bulan berdarah” buat Malaysia kerana 10,000 telah terkorban akibat wabak berkenaan sepanjang bulan tersebut.

Malaysia telah dianggap sebagai negara terburuk di ASEAN dalam menguruskan penularan wabak Covid-19, terutama dari segi angka kes kematian harian akibat Covid-19.

Semalam, Malaysia melaporkan kadar kematian harian akibat Covid-19 lebih tinggi berbanding negara-negara ASEAN yang lain — Malaysia merekodkan 240 kes kematian, berbanding Indonesia (124), Filipina (91), Thailand (129), Vietnam (178) and Myanmar (48).

Rekod kes harian baharu Covid-19 semalam adalah seperti berikut: Malaysia (11,332), Indonesia (2057), Filipina (13,848), Thailand (9,489), Vietnam (452), Myanmar (1,630) and Singapura (2,236).

Masih banyak yang perlu ditempuh oleh Malaysia jika Rancangan Malaysia ke-12 yang dibentangkan oleh Perdana Menteri pada Isnin lalu mahu menjadi pengubah keadaan (game-changer) dan melonjakkan kedudukan negara dari kedudukan ke-52 ke kedudukan teratas dalam Carta Ketahanan Covid Bloomberg.

Beranikah Perdana Menteri untuk menyahut cabaran berkenaan — membawa Malaysia ke arah kejayaan pada tahun hadapan?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 29 September 2021)

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Can the 12th Malaysia Plan really be a Game-Changer?

Ngeh Khoo Ham, the Member of Parliament for Bruas who was Perak DAP Chairman and  former Perak State Assembly Speaker, turned 60 years old today.

He said in WhatsApp together with an old photograph of DAP leaders campaigning on the “No to 911, Also No to 929” issue twenty years ago  on a  pick-up truck showing among others  Ngeh,  Fong Po Puan (then MP for Batu Gajah), Nga Kor Ming (then State Assemblymnan for Pantai Remis and later former Deputy Speaker and MP for Teluk Intan) and myself:

“My birthday will always remind me of our ‘No to 929’ campaign. Up this pick-up truck is another  929 birthday boy, Sdr Teh Hock Ke.

“Lao Da was always in the forefront round the country for various programs and campaigns. He has all the energy and always seem tireless. He often gets his sleep when travelling in the car.

“For the younger generation, pick-ups, Hilux or a small lorry was often our stage for various programs.

“’No to 929’ campaign did not gain much attention but not so after the above event at Pasir Pinji Ipoh market. Police prohibited members from distributing the ‘No to 929’ leaflets.

“Laoda who was having breakfast with some of us upon  hearing that, left the breakfast table and went out to give the police officer the leaflets! He was arrested 😱. Opposition leader in Malaysia arrested for distrusting leaflets!

“Immediately, it became national & international news. ‘No to 929’ campaign became a news item bcos of Laoda and not bcos of the declaration made by Tun M at the Gerakan party convention.

“The second time arrests were made when we wanted to launch ‘No to 929’ balloons at Dataran Merdeka. Kui Lun, myself and some others were arrested. Thanks to the police for helping make our ‘No to 929’ campaign a success 🥳. Sedikit sejarah 🙏”

A DAP MP commented:

“20 years later, PAS is in federal government and we have to face a United Malay-led government 😫”.

Ngeh responded:

“I don’t believe that. New generation will not buy Pas’ brand in 20 yrs. It is no longer laku.”

This is what I said in  the  WhatsApp:

“Memories. Reminder to us all that battle for a liberal and  secular multi-religious Malaysia will span many generations with ups and downs. We need stout-hearted people with grit and gumption for the long haul.”

Parliament is now debating the 12th Malaysia Plan.

The 12MP has three themes, four policy enablers and 14 game changers.

But can the 12MP  really be a game changer?

Had the previous five-year Malaysia Plans been game-changers?

If so, Malaysia would not have become one of the worst-performing nations in the world in the  Covid-19 pandemic with over two million cases and over 26,000 Covid-19 deaths.

We have today  lost out to Singapore and Vietnam in Gross Domestic Product when in 1970, Singapore had only 51% of Malaysia’s GDP and Vietnam 74% of Malaysia’s GDP.

In the past half-a-century, Malaysia had lagged behind other countries and become more divisive, discriminatory and restrictive in our policies.

Even the word “liberal” has become a dirty word, the reason why the Rukun Negara, dedicated to fostering national unity, preserving a democratic way of life, creating a just society where national  prosperity can be enjoyed equitably, building a liberal attitude towards the rich and diverse culture and building a progressive society that will use science and technology and dedicated to the five nation-building principles of belief in God, loyalty to King and country,  supremacy of the Constitution, the rule of law and good behaviour and morality, is increasingly   being looked askance.

If the 12th Malaysia Plan is really to be a Game Changer, it should usher in a Malaysia where Keluarga Malaysia covers all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics.

Otherwise, Keluarga Malaysia only highlights division and not unity.

Can the 12th Malaysia Plan really be a game-changer?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Thursday, 30th September 2021)

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September 2021 is Malaysia’s deadliest month in Covid-19 pandemic with nearly 10,000 deaths  – Khairy should not delay any longer and should explain Malaysia’s horrible Covid-19 death situation and what is being done to slow it down

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September 2021 has proved to be Malaysia’s deadliest month in the Covid-19 pandemic with close to 10,000 deaths.

The Health Minister for a month, Khairy Jamaluddin, should not delay any longer and should explain Malaysia’s horrible Covid-19 death situation.

In his first 31 days as new Health Minister since he was sworn in on August 30, the number of Covid-19 deaths stood at the humongous figure of 9,550 deaths.

The death figures for August and September constitute over 73% of the cumulative total of Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia, and what is most disturbing is that the death toll for September is higher than that of August.

In fact, the number of Covid-19 deaths in the second 14 days of Khairy’s tenure as Health Minister is higher than his first 14 days, taking into account that the incubation period of Covid-19 virus is 14 days although the Delta variant has shortened it to four days.

The following time-line on the cumulative total of Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia is most disturbing:

17.3.2020 – the first Covid-19 death

31.8.2020 – 127 deaths

16.9.2020 – 128 deaths

31.12.2020 – 471 deaths

11.1.2021 – 555 deaths (Emergency declared)

31.1.2021 – 760 deaths

28.2.2021 -1,130 deaths

31.3.2021 -1,272 deaths

30.4.2021 – 1,506 deaths

31.5.2021 – 2,796 deaths

30.6.2021 – 5,170 deaths

31.7.2021 – 9,024 deaths

31.8.2021 -16,664 deaths

29.9.2021 -26,142 deaths

Khairy should explain what is being done to reduce the exponential increase of Covid-19 death rate or should we expect another 10,000 Covid-19 deaths in October?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 30th September 2021)

September 2021 adalah bulan dengan kematian paling tinggi disaksikan negara kita dengan hampir 10,000 kematian — Khairy tidak boleh berlengah lagi dan mesti menjelaskan mengenai keadaan kematian akibat Covid-19 di Malaysia ini apa yang sedang dilakukan untuk mengurangkannya

September 2021 adalah bulan dengan kadar kematian tertinggi yang disaksikan negara kita, dengan hampir 10,000 kematian.

Menteri Kesihatan yang sudah sebulan dalam jawatan beliau, Khairy Jamaluddin, tidak boleh berlengah lagi dan perlu memberikan penjelasan mengenai perkara ini.

Dalam 31 hari pertama beliau sebagai Menteri Kesihatan sejak mengangkat sumpah pada 30 Ogos, jumlah kematian terkumpul akibat Covid-19 adalah 9,550 kematian.

Jumlah kematian untuk bulan Ogos dan September ini sahaja membentuk kira-kira 73% jumlah kematian keseluruhan akibat Covid-19 dalam negara. Apa yang lagi membimbangkan adalah, kematian dalam bulan September ini adalah lebih tinggi berbanding dengan bulan Ogos.

Malah, jumlah kematian dalam dua minggu kedua Khairy menjadi Menteri Kesihatan adalah lebih tinggi berbanding dengan dua minggu pertama beliau, mengambil kira tempoh inkubasi 14 hari untuk Covid-19 walaupun varian Delta mempunyai tempoh inkubasi yang lebih pendek selama hanya empat hari.

Berikut adalah garis kematian kematian akibat Covid-19 di Malaysia yang amat membimbangkan:

17.3.2020 – kematian Covid-19 pertama

31.8.2020 – 127 kematian

16.9.2020 – 128 kematian

31.12.2020 – 471 kematian

11.1.2021 – 555 kematian (Darurat diisytiharkan)

31.1.2021 – 760 kematian

28.2.2021 -1.130 kematian

31.3.2021 -1,272 kematian

30.4.2021 – 1,506 kematian

31.5.2021 – 2.796 kematian

30.6.2021 – 5,170 kematian

31.7.2021 – 9,024 kematian

31.8.2021 – 16,664 kematian

29.9.2021 – 26,142 kematian

Khairy perlu menjelaskan, apakah yang sedang dilakukan untuk menurunkan peningkatan mendadak kematian akibat Covid-19 ini. Atau adakah kita perlu menjangkakan 10,000 lagi kematian dalam bulan Oktober?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis, 30 September 2021)

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Khairy ended his first full month as Health Minister beating the world’s top 18 countries having the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases in “Cases in the last 7 days/1 million population” and all the world’s top 19 countries in “Deaths in the last 7 days/1 million population”

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Khairy Jamaluddin ended his first full month as Health Minister the beating the world’s top 18 countries having the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases in “Cases the last 7 days/1 million population” and all the world’s top 19 countries in “Deaths in the last 7 days/1 million population” (as Malaysia is ranked world’s No. 20) as illustrated by the following:

Rank

Country

Last 7 days/1 million population

Cases

Deaths

1

USA

2,359

35

2

India

126

1

3

Brazil

541

18

4

UK

3,541

13

5

Russia

1,052

39

6

Turkey

2,252

18

7

France

561

5

8

Iran

1,122

23

9

Argentina

219

10

10

Spain

339

7

11

Colombia

206

5

12

Italy

371

6

13

Germany

655

5

14

Indonesia

53

3

15

Mexico

460

29

16

Poland

158

3

17

South Africa

194

17

18

Philipppines

1,062

8

19

Ukraine

1,130

21

20

Malaysia

2,738

48

We were yesterday in the world’s Top Ten countries in daily new Covid-19 cases and daily Covid-19 deaths.

During the one month and two days of Khairy as Health Minister, there had been 10,249 Covid-19 deaths, including 2,724 Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths.

This is just not good enough and I reiterate my call on Khairy to explain the question of abnormally high Covid-19 death rate in Malaysia, what is being done to reduce the high rate of Covid-19 deaths as well as to reduce the daily BID figures to single-digit numbers.

Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Friday, Oct. 1. 2021

Khairy mengakhiri bulan pertama beliau sebagai Menteri Kesihatan dengan Malaysia mengalahkan 18 negara dengan kes terkumpul terbanyak dalam kategori “Jumlah kes dalam tujuh hari yang lepas/sejuta penduduk” dan mengalahkan 19 negara dengan angka “Kematian dalam tujuh hari yang lepas/sejuta penduduk”

Khairy mengakhiri bulan pertama beliau sebagai Menteri Kesihatan dengan Malaysia mengalahkan 18 negara dengan kes terkumpul terbanyak dalam kategori “Jumlah kes dalam tujuh hari yang lepas/sejuta penduduk” dan mengalahkan 19 negara dengan angka “Kematian dalam tujuh hari yang lepas/sejuta penduduk” (dengan Malaysia berada di tempat ke-20 carta dunia ini) seperti berikut:

Kedudukan

Negara

Jumlah dalam tujuh hari yang lepas per sejuta penduduk

Kes

Kematian

1

Amerika Syarikat

2,359

35

2

India

126

1

3

Brazil

541

18

4

UK

3,541

13

5

Rusia

1,052

39

6

Turki

2,252

18

7

Perancis

561

5

8

Iran

1,122

23

9

Argentina

219

10

10

Sepanyol

339

7

11

Kolombia

206

5

12

Itali

371

6

13

Jerman

655

5

14

Indonesia

53

3

15

Mexico

460

29

16

Poland

158

3

17

Africa Selatan

194

17

18

Filipina

1,062

8

19

Ukraine

1,130

21

20

Malaysia

2,738

48

Kita berada kalangan sepuluh negara teratas dengan jumlah kes dan kematian baharu akibat Covid-19 semalam.

Dalam tempoh sebulan dua hari Khairy menjadi Menteri Kesihatan, terdapat 10,249 kematian akibat Covid-19, termasuklah 2,724 kes kematian di bawa ke hospital (BID).

Perkara ini tidak cukup baik dan saya ulangi seruan saya kepada Khairy untuk memberikan penjelasan mengenai angka kematian yang amat tinggi di Malaysia ini, serta apa yang sedang dilakukan untuk mengurangkan kadar kematian ini dan juga untuk mengurangkan kadar BID kepada julat satu angka.

Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Jumaat, 1 Oktober 2021

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How to make the 12th Malaysia Plan a truly game-changer

In the last 50 years since 1970, when Malaysia’s Second Malaysia Plan and the New Economic Policy were launched, Malaysia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has increased  90 times from US$3,737bil in 1970  to US$338,286bil in 2020.

But  Malaysia’s GDP has been overtaken by Singapore and Vietnam  and continued to be behind Hong Kong.

Singapore  increased its GDP 177 times from US$1,919bil in 1970  to US$339,981bil in 2020;  Vietnam increased its GDP 123 times from US2,775bil in 1970 to US$340,821bil in 2020 while Hong Kong increased its GDP 92 times from US$3,812bil in 1970 to US$349,446bil in 2020.

Malaysia has  lost out to Singapore and Vietnam in Gross Domestic Product when in 1970, Singapore had only 51% of Malaysia’s GDP and Vietnam 74% of Malaysia’s GDP.

Can the 12th Malaysia Plan really be a game changer?

If the 12th Malaysia Plan is really to be a game-changer, it must accept that  every citizen is a Malaysian  instead of being Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Ibans or Orang Asli; or  Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Sikkhist or  Taoists; or bumiputeras and non-bumiputeras.

The government must uphold the Malaysian Constitution and the Rukun Negara objectives of fostering national unity, preserving a democratic way of life, creating a just society where national prosperity can be enjoyed equitably, building a liberal attitude towards the rich and diverse culture and building a progressive society that will use science and technology in pursuit of  the five nation-building principles of Rukun Negara – belief in God, loyalty to King and country, supremacy of the Constitution, the rule of law and good behaviour and morality.

It a sad commentary that both the Malaysian Constitution and  the 1970 Rukun Negara had failed to build a united Malaysian when after six decades of nationhood, we have a Keluarga Malaysia national  slogan, which is nothing but an admission that  for six decades, we have failed to build a united Malaysian nation and family.

Can the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri, succeed  in his sloganeering about  a Keluarga Malaysia and transform a  multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural nation into “a beacon of light to  a difficult and distracted world”?

Malaysians knew little about Ismail Sabri but his ascension to the premiership has brought back his past to the present – that his political career until he became Prime Minister was built on the denial of a Keluarga Malaysia.

Can the person who had built his political career on a narrow concept of Malaysia expand and lead plural  Malaysia into the future of a Keluarga Malaysia?

I always believe in the capability of human beings to grow and learn from the lessons of life and I strongly believe that Ismail Sabri should be given a chance to prove his sincerity and commitment to the concept of a Keluarga Malaysia.

The Prime Minister  has instructed all Cabinet Ministers to announce their respective Report Card on the 100-Day  Keluarga Malaysia Achievements.

I have a better suggestion.

As all the Ministers took their oath of office before the Yang di Pertuan Agong on 30th August, the 100 Day falls on Dec. 7, when the  Dewan Rakyat is still sitting.

The Prime Minister Ismail Sabri  should present the  “Keluarga Malaysia 100-Day Report” of the government to Parliament on Dec. 7, 2021 followed by a motion on the report and  full debate in Parliament.

Meanwhile, the government should be guided the spirit of Keluarga Malaysia in the implementation of the 12th Malaysia Plan, 2021 budget and all government policies and measures, which should include the following:

1.     Scrap the 51% bumiputera ownership requirement for freight forwarding companies.

2.     A 10-year Plan  to end abuses and deviations of New Economic Plan.

3.     A step-up in war against corruption and kleptocracy in Malaysia, with the objective for Malaysia to be among the top 30 countries in the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index 2030; and

4.     A policy assurance by the Prime Minister to all non-Muslim religions that that will no law or government  measure that will undermine  Article 11 of the Constitution  on freedom of religion.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Saturday, 2nd October 2021)

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Painful to track Malaysia’s poor performance in ASEAN in Covid-19 pandemic particularly in losing out to Indonesia in both daily Covid-19 caseload and daily Covid-19 deaths  in the past month

It is painful to track Malaysia’s poor performance in ASEAN in Covid-19 pandemic particularly in losing out to Indonesia, a nation with eight times the population of Malaysia, in both daily Covid-19 caseload and daily Covid-19 deaths in the past month.

For the last 18 days, Malaysia had been losing out to Indonesia in both categories.

For the past seven days, for instance, Malaysia’s daily new Covid-19 cases were 13,899, 13,104, 10,959, 11,332, 12,434, 12,735 and 11,889 cases while that of Indonesia were 2,137, 1,760, 1,390, 2,057, 1,954, 1690 and 1,624 cases.

The daily Covid-19 deaths for Malaysia in the past seven days were 228, 278, 258, 240, 209, 192 and 121 deaths while that of Indonesia were 123, 86, 118, 124, 117, 113 and 87 deaths.

For the past fortnight, Indonesia is struggling to transition from four-digit to three-digit numbers for daily new Covid-19 cases and from three-digit to two-digit numbers of daily Covid-19 deaths (succeeding for one day on  26th September when it recorded 86 deaths), while Malaysia is struggling to fall to four-digit numbers  below 10,000 cases for daily new Covid-19 cases while for daily Covid-19 deaths struggling from 121 daily deaths to 487 deaths during the period.

Yesterday, we lost out to Thailand in daily Covid-19 deaths. Malaysia had 121 deaths  while Thailand had 123. But except for 2nd September, when Malaysia had 249 daily Covid-19 deaths and Thailand 262 daily Covid-19 deaths, Malaysia had lost out to Thailand on both daily new Covid-19 cases and daily Covid-19 deaths.

For Vietnam, Malaysia has lost out from Sept. 1 on daily new Covid-19 cases for the whole period, while in daily Covid-19 deaths from Sept. 1, Malaysia lost out in seven of the 31 days since Sept. 1.

The only ASEAN nation which Malaysia had performed better in the Covid-19 pandemic in both categories  is the Philippines.

This is a most unsatisfactory performance as Malaysia boasts of one of the best healthcare system in the region.

An explanation from the new Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin as to  why Malaysia is performing so poorly in the Covid-19 pandemic in ASEAN is warranted.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Saturday, 2nd October 2012)

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Ismail Sabri should spell out the  economic and social reforms he expects to be achieved  in the first Hundred Days of his Keluarga Malaysia administration

The Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri should realise that more important than the 100-day ‘report cards’ of his jumbo-sized Cabinet Ministers (31 Minister and 38 Deputy Ministers)  is his own 100-day report card as the ninth Prime Minister of Malaysia.

In his special interview with senior editors, Ismail said that views via social media of ministers’ performance in their first 100 days on the job will be used to tally their overall achievement score.

He said there were several methods that can be applied to obtain feedback and sentiment analysis, and cited the rakyat’s perception of ministers and professional surveys as some of them.

Will these apply to him with regard to his ‘report card’ as the ninth Prime Minister of Malaysia?

This is why I had suggested that Ismail Sabri should present a Hundred-Day Report Card by him and his Ministers to Parliament, as Parliament will still be in session for the 2022 Budget during the first Hundred Day of Ismail and his Cabinet, and that there should be a full debate in Parliament  on the Hundred-Day Report Card by Ismail and his Ministers.

Does Ismail agree with this proposal, which would set a new standard of accountability and responsibility  by his government and Ministers?

The Hundred-Day concept harks back to the Franklin Roosevelt presidency from March 9 to June 15,1933 during which a major portion of the New Deal legislation was enacted to deal with economic and social ravages of the  Great Depression in the United States.

The only slogan which had been coined by Ismail Sabri since  his premiership is that of ‘Keluarga Malaysia’.

Let Ismail Sabri spell out what new reforms and measures he expects to be enacted in his first Hundred Days of a “Keluarga Malaysia” administration.

An evaluation of the success or otherwise of Ismail Sabri’s first Hundred Days as the ninth Prime Minister will include an assessment of the following eight  issues:

1.     Success in the war against Covid-19 pandemic, as in bringing down the daily new Covid-19 cases  to double digit numbers and daily Covid-19 deaths to single-digit numbers.

2.     Success in implementing the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the Prime Minister and the Pakatan Harapan leaders on 13th September 2021 to focus single-mindedly on the Covid-19 pandemic and reset the political landscape with  institutional and parliamentary reforms.

3.     Progress in making “Keluarga Malaysia” a meaningful concept informing all government policies and measures.

4.     Promote the Rukun Negara principles of nation-building in a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural Malaysia  and requiring all Cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament to declare full support for  the five Rukun Negara principles.

5.     Greater focus on the war against corruption and kleptocracy in Malaysia, with the objective for Malaysia to be among the top 30 non-corrupt countries in the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index 2030.

6.     A concrete plan to end the abuses and deviations of the New Economic Policy.

7.     Scrap  the 51% bumiputera ownership requirement for freight forwarding companies; and

8.      A policy assurance to all non-Muslim religions that there will no law or government measure that will undermine Article 11 of the Constitution on freedom of religion.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021)

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