Ismail Sabri would have been defeated in his first vote on the Deputy Speakership in Parliament  yesterday  and which  may give him  the  shortest tenure of premiership  than Muhyiddin if not for the confidence-supply-reform  MOU signed a day earlier

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The ninth Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri, would have been defeated in his first vote on the Deputy Speakership in Parliament yesterday and which may give him the shortest tenure of premiership than Muhyiddin Yassin if not for the confidence-supply-reform Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Prime Minister and Pakatan Harapan a day earlier on Monday, 13th September 2021.

But with the CSR MOU, a new political landscape had started, and the deputy speaker election was postponed to the next Parliament meeting when the Federal Constitution would be amended to create a third deputy speaker post for the opposition.

It’s the first example of the co-operation between the Government and the Pakatan Harapan parties so that the priority is on ending the longest Covid-19 wave in the world which caused two million Covid-19 cases and some 22,000 Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia instead of spending the next 10 to 18 months on political intrigues, plots and counterplots , even on toppling Ismail Sabri as the ninth Prime Minister, though any new 10th Prime Minister in such circumstances will not be Anwar Ibrahim.

If Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics can put aside their differences and unite single-mindedly to end the Covid-19 pandemic and prepare the country for economic, social and national recovery, there is a chance that Malaysia can succeed.

If we continue to allow our differences to take precedence over the Covid-19 pandemic, then Malaysia is inexorably hurtling towards a failed state.

We do not want to be a kleptocracy or a kakistocracy.

We want to be a world-class great nation or in the words of Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman six decades ago, to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.

But we cannot be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world” if we cannot win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic and cannot break loose from the longest Covid-19 wave in the world.

Forty-three years ago, on March 21, 1978, I moved a Private Member’s Bill in Parliament for an anti-hopping law to deter political corruption and to ensure a cleaner political atmosphere. I did not succeed.

This is what I said in Parliament 43 years ago:

“Nothing disgusts the Malaysian public more than to see MPs or State Assemblymen elected on one party’s ticket and then betray the Party and the people’s trust by switching parties. This makes them very little different from con-men. Such practices debase politics, and strengthen the general impression that ‘politics is dirty’, when it is the dirty people who get into politics to make politics dirty.

“The defection of MPs or State Assemblymen from parties on whose ticket they got elected is most undesirable and unethical, because they are elected not because of their personal qualities, but because of the Party they represent. Such practices also permit elected politicians to be bought and sold as if they are on the market place.

“If an elected MP resigns or is expelled from the Party on whose ticket he was originally elected, then he should resign his seat and cause a by-election to be held. If the resignation and expulsion is over a matter of political principle which has the support of the people, then the MP or State Assemblymen concerned should have no qualms about getting re-elected.”

It is great to see an Anti-Hopping Law on the statute book after advocating it for four decades.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, September 15, 2021)

Ismail Sabri akan kalah dalam undian pertama beliau semalam untuk melantik Timbalan Yang di Pertua Dewan Rakyat yang mungkin akan membuatkan beliau Perdana Menteri dengan penggal yang terpendek berbanding dengan Muhyiddin tanpa memorandum persefahaman kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi yang ditandatangani pada hari Isnin

Perdana Menteri ke-sembilan, Ismail Sabri, akan kalah dalam undian pertama beliau semalam untuk melantik Timbalan Yang di Pertua Dewan Rakyat yang mungkin akan membuatkan beliau Perdana Menteri dengan penggal yang terpendek berbanding dengan Muhyiddin tanpa memorandum persefahaman kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) yang ditandatangani pada hari Isnin, 13 September 2021.

Tetapi, dengan memorandum persefahaman CSR ini, landskap politik baharu telah bermula, dan pemilihan Timbalan Yang di Pertua Dewan Rakyat telah ditunda ke Persidangan yang akan datang selepas Perlembagaan Persekutuan dipinda untuk memberi laluan untuk pelantikan Timbalan Yang di Pertua ketiga daripada pihak pembangkang.

Ini adalah contoh pertama kerjasama antara Parti-parti Kerajaan dan Pakatan Harapan supaya keutamaan dapat diberikan untuk menamatkan gelombang penularan Covid-19 yang terpanjang di dunia, yang telah menyebabkan lebih daripada dua juta jangkitan Covid-19 dan kira-kira 22,000 kematian akibat wabak ini, bukannya membuang masa 10 ke 18 bulan yang akan datang dengan pelbagai plot dan komplot untuk menumbangkan Ismail Sabri sebagai Perdana Menteri kesembilan, kerana Anwar Ibrahim tidak akan menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-10 kita dengan cara sebegitu.

Sekiranya rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum, agama, kawasan, atau politik boleh meletakkan perbezaan mereka dan bersatu untuk menamatkan pandemik Covid-19 ini dan mempersiap-sediakan negara untuk pemulihan ekonomi dan sosial, ada peluang untuk kita semua berjaya.

Sekiranya kita terus mengutamakan perbezaan kita berbanding dengan wabak Covid-19, maka kita semua akan terjerumus ke arah sebuah negara gagal.

Kita tidak mahu kembali menjadi sebuah kleptokrasi atau menjadi sebuah kakistokrasi.

Kita mahu menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia, seperti yang dikatakan oleh Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, satu “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang kelam dan terganggu”.

Tetapi, kita tidak mungkin mencapai kejayaan ini sekiranya kita tidak dapat memenangi perang melawan wabak Covid-19 dan meninggalkan gelombang penularan terpanjang di dunia ini.

43 tahun yang lepas, pada 21 Mac 1978, saya telah bawakan satu usul persendirian di Parlimen untuk membentangkan undang-undang anti-lompat parti untuk menyekat rasuah politik dan memastikan persekitaran politik yang lebih bersih. Saya tidak berjaya.

Ini yang saya katakan di Parlimen, 43 tahun tahun yang lepas:

“Tidak ada perkara yang lebih menjijikkan di mata rakyat Malaysia daripada melihat Ahli-ahli Parlimen atau Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri yang diundi di atas tiket satu-satu parti yang kemudiannya mengkhianati Parti tersebut dan amanah rakyat dengan bertukar parti. Mereka ini tidak jauh bezanya dengan penipu. Perbuatan seperti ini merendahkan sistem politik dan hanya menguatkan pandangan bahawa ‘politik itu kotor’, sedangkan politik itu hanyalah kotor apabila mereka yang menyertai politik itu sendiri yang mengotorinya.

“Pengkhianatan Ahli Parlimen atau ADUN daripada parti yang diundi mereka ini adalah satu perkara yang amat tidak menyenangkan dan tidak beretika, kerana mereka ini bukanlah diundi semata-mata kerana sifat peribadi mereka, tetapi juga kerana Parti yang diwakili mereka. Perbuatan ini juga membolehkan wakil rakyat yang diundi ini untuk dijual beli seakan-akan mereka ini barangan di pasar.

“Sekiranya seorang Ahli Parlimen itu meletakkan jawatan daripada Parti atau dipecat daripada Parti di mana beliau diundi, beliau perlulah mengosongkan jawatannya untuk membuka ruang kepada satu pilihan raya kecil. Sekiranya perletakan jawatan atau pemecatan tersebut adalah mengenai isu prinsip politik dan mendapat sokongan rakyat setempat, pastinya Ahli Parlimen atau ADUN tersebut tidak akan menghadapi sebarang masalah untuk diundi semula.”

Saya amat gembira apabila dapat melihat undang-undang anti-lompat parti selepas berkempen untuk adanya undang-undang ini selama empat dekad.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 15 September 2021)

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Khairy should explain why  after two weeks, Malaysia is still world’s Top 7th in daily new Covid-19 cases and world’s Top Three in daily Covid-19 deaths, and when Malaysia will get out of the World’s Top 20 in both categories

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The new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin should explain why after two weeks in office, Malaysia is still world’s No. 7 in daily new Covid-19 cases and the world’s Top 3rd nation in daily Covid-19 deaths, and when Malaysia will get out of the world’s Top 20 nations in both categories.

Yesterday, Malaysia recorded 15,669 new Covid-19 cases, ranking as the world’s Top 7th in daily new Covid-19 cases, after United States (117,433 cases), Turkey (27,802 cases), India (27,4290), UK (26,628), Iran (22,329), Philippines (18,056).

In daily Covid-19 deaths which recorded 463 deaths yesterday, Malaysia only lost out to two other countries, namely United States with 1,826 Covid-19 deaths and Brazil (650 deaths). We even beat Iran (408), India (280), Indonesia (250), the Philippines (222) and United Kingdom (185).

In the last 13 days, Malaysia’s daily new Covid-19 cases had been hovering between 15,669 cases yesterday to 21,176 cases on Sept. 10, while Indonesia had been scoring four-digit figures between 2,577 cases on Sept. 13 to 8,955 cases on Sept. 2.

Can Khairy explain the reasons for this great discrepancy between the four-digit cases in Indonesia with the five-digit cases in Malaysia?

In July, Khairy said that the new few months would be most crucial in Malaysia’s journey out of the woods from the Covid-19 pandemic with regard to the National Immunisation Programme (NIP).

But instead of reaching the daily administration of half-a-million dosage of vaccine, there had been stalling in the vaccination process, the target reached was only quarter of a million in the last few days.

Can Khairy explain?

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 15th September 2021)

Khairy perlu menjelaskan mengapa selepas dua minggu beliau mengangkat sumpah, Malaysia masih berada di kedudukan ke-7 di dunia dengan jumlah kes baharu Covid-19 tertinggi dan merupakan negara ke-3 di dunia dengan jumlah kes kematian akibat Covid-19 tertinggi, dan bilakah Malaysia akan keluar dari kedudukan 20 negara teratas di dunia untuk kedua-dua kategori ini

Menteri Kesihatan yang baharu, Khairy Jamaluddin, perlu menjelaskan mengapa selepas dua minggu beliau mengangkat sumpah, Malaysia masih berada di kedudukan ke-7 di dunia dengan jumlah kes baharu Covid-19 tertinggi dan merupakan negara ke-3 di dunia dengan jumlah kes kematian akibat Covid-19 tertinggi, dan bilakah Malaysia akan keluar dari kedudukan 20 negara teratas di dunia untuk kedua-dua kategori ini.

Semalam, Malaysia mencatatkan 15,669 kes baharu Covid-19, sekaligus berada di kedudukan ke-7 teratas di dunia dengan jumlah kes harian baharu Covid-19 tertinggi, di belakang Amerika Syarikat (117,433 kes), Turki (27,802 kes), India (27,4290), UK (26,628) , Iran (22,329), Filipina (18,056).

Untuk 463 kes kematian harian akibat Covid-19 yang direkodkan semalam, Malaysia dilihat tewas kepada dua negara lain, iaitu Amerika Syarikat dengan 1,826 kes dan Brazil (650). Kita bahkan menewaskan Iran (408), India (280), Indonesia (250), Filipina (222) dan United Kingdom (185).

Dalam tempoh 13 hari lalu, jumlah kes harian baharu Covid-19 yang dicatatkan di Malaysia berlegar pada paras antara 15,669 kes semalam kepada 21,176 kes pada 10 September, sementara Indonesia telah mencatatkan julat empat angka antara 2,577 kes pada 13 September hingga 8,955 kes pada 2 September.

Bolehkah Khairy menjelaskan sebab-sebab perbezaan besar antara kes empat angka yang dicatatkan di Indonesia dengan kes lima angka yang direkodkan di Malaysia?

Namun, proses vaksinasi dilihat semakin perlahan selepas beberapa hari gagal mencapai sasaran setengah juta dos sehari. Hanya satu perempat juta dos vaksin diberikan setiap hari sejak beberapa hari lalu.

Bolehkan Khairy memberikan penjelasan mengenai perkara ini?

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 15 September 2021)

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Memorandum of Understanding on confidence-supply-reform (CSR)  between Ismail Sabri and Pakatan Harapan the most important political document in the nation’s history since the drafting of Malaysian Constitution and Rukun Negara

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The memorandum of understanding on confidence-supply-reform (CSR) between the ninth Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri and Pakatan Harapan is the most important political document in the nation’s history since the drafting of the Malaysian Constitution and Rukun Negara.

One pertinent question is why such a memorandum of understanding had not been drawn up earlier in the nation’s history.

There are two reasons:

Firstly, the Umno-dominated Barisan Nasional coalition which ruled the country for half a century from the seventies to the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 was too powerful and hegemonic.

Secondly, the existential threat posed by the 21-month Covid-19 pandemic.

When Muhyiddin Yassin was sworn in as Prime Minister on March 1, 2020, there were 29 Covid-19 cases and zero Covid-19 deaths.

But when Malaysia celebrates the 58th Malaysia tomorrow on Sept. 16, 2021, we would have more than two million Covid-19 cases and more than 22,000 Covid-19 deaths – marking Malaysia as one of the world’s worst-performing nations in the Covid-19 pandemic.

When we celebrated the 57th Malaysia Day twelve months ago on September 16, 2020, we were ranked No. 89th among nations in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.

We have overtaken 68 other countries in the past 12 months to be ranked No. 21 among nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.

If we continue with the present rate of Covid-19 infections, we are heading to pass the three million mark for Covid-19 cases by the end of October and be ranked No. 16 among nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases – as well as passing the 30,000-mark for Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia.

These are dubious world distinctions which Malaysians do not want the country to have – just as they do not want Malaysia to have the appellation of a kleptocracy, kakistocracy or a failed state.

Malaysians must unite to win the losing war against the Covid-19 pandemic so that we can embark on economic, social and national recovery and normality.

These are important reasons for the CSR MOU between the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan parties – to win the war against Covid-19, strengthen and normalise democracy and pave the way for national recovery and normality.

We must have the stamina and perseverance to see through political change for the better in Malaysia.

Forty-four years ago on March 21, 1978, I moved a Private Member’s Bill for an Anti-Hopping Act to combat political corruption and to protect the integrity of Parliament. Fifty years ago in 1971, I first raised in Parliament the issue of reducing the voting age to 18 years old.

I am now an octogenarian but it is good to see the reforms I had advocated half a century ago coming to fruition.

Lets see which political party can field the most number of young Malaysians between the ages of 18 – 21 as Parliamentary and State Assembly candidates in the 15th General Election.

DAP and Pakatan Harapan had always advocated democratic changes for the country rather than for self-advancement and this is one great example.

DAP leaders and activists must lead public opinion that the country demands a moratorium and a political ceasefire for the next 10-18 months until the15th General Election so that we can focus on winning the war against the Covid-19 pandemic and reset the country for economic, social and national recovery and normality.

If there had been no CSR MOU, Ismail Sabri might have lost his first vote in Parliament over the appointment of a Deputy Speaker on the first working day of Parliament last Tuesday and he might end up as the Malaysian Prime Minister serving the shortest term – shorter than Muhyiddin Yassin’s term of 17 months.

But this is not the time for political intrigues, plots and counter-plots but for unity and co-operation by all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics to end the longest Covid-19 wave in the world, which had caused over two million Covid-19 cases and over 22,000 Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia, especially as any new 10th Prime Minister in such circumstances will not be Anwar Ibrahim.

We still have critical differences with the government parties, on constitutional democracy and the Rukun Negara; the rule of law, good governance, war against corruption and abuses of power, respect for human rights and freedom of speech and expression; the economic, social and educational injustices and inequalities in the country; Malaysia as a world-class great nation and how to forge Malaysian unity out of diverse races, religions, regions and cultures in Malaysia.

But our differences can wait and must wait in the face of the existential threat of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Our commonalities as a Malaysian, regardless of race, religion, region or politics, must take pre-eminent position and our common priority must be to win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic to assure a safe future for all Malaysians.

This is in fact a supreme test of one’s love for the nation and Malaysian people.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a zoom discussion organised by Johore DAP on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021 at 8.30 pm)

Memorandum persefahaman kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) di antara Ismail Sabri dan Pakatan Harapan adalah dokumen politik yang paling penting dalam sejarah selepas daripada penggubalan Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan Rukun Negara

Memorandum persefahaman kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) di antara Ismail Sabri dan Pakatan Harapan adalah dokumen politik yang paling penting dalam sejarah selepas daripada penggubalan Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan Rukun Negara.

Persoalan yang lebih penting sekarang adalah, mengapakah memorandum persefahaman seperti ini tidak dirangka lebih awal lagi dalam sejarah negara sebelum ini.

Terdapat dua sebab:

Pertamanya, gabungan Barisan Nasional yang diketuai UMNO yang memerintah negara selama setengah abad daripada tahun 70-an sehinggalah Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 pada 9 Mei 2018 terlalu kuat dan bersifat hegemonik.

Kedua, ancaman kepada kehidupan yang dibawa oleh wabak Covid-19 dalam 21 bulan yang lepas.

Semasa Muhyiddin Yassin mengangkat sumpah sebagai Perdana Menteri pada 1 Mac 2020, terdapat 29 kes Covid-19 dan sifar kematian akibat wabak ini.

Tetapi, apabila negara kita menyambut ulang tahun ke-58 Hari Malaysia esok pada 16 September 2021, kita telah mencatatkan lebih daripada 2 juta kes jangkitan dan lebih daripada 22,000 kematian akibat Covid-19 — menjadikan Malaysia sebagai salah satu negara dengan prestasi terburuk dalam mengendalikan wabak ini.

Semasa kita menyambut Hari Malaysia ke-57 tahun lepas, kita berada di tempat ke-89 dengan jumlah kes terkumpul tertinggi di dunia.

Kita telah mengatasi kedudukan 68 negara lain dalam 12 bulan yang lepas dan kini berada di tempat ke-21 dengan jumlah kes terkumpul tertinggi.

Sekiranya keadaan semasa ini berterusan, kita bakal melepasi paras tiga juta kes Covid-19 menjelang hujung bulan Oktober, berada di tempat ke-16 di dunia — dan juga melepasi paras 30,000 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Perkara ini bukanlah satu benda yang kita mahukan sebagai rakyat Malaysia — seperti mana juga kita tidak mahu digelar sebuah kleptokrasi, kakistokrasi, atau negara gagal.

Rakyat Malaysia perlu bersatu padu untuk memenangi perang melawan wabak Covid-19 supaya kita boleh memulakan usaha pemulihan ekonomi dan sosial dan juga mengembalikan kehidupan normal.

Ini adalah antara sebab-sebab utama mengapakan memorandum persefahaman CSR di antara Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri, dan parti-parti Pakatan Harapan dipersetujui — untuk memenangi perang melawan Covid-19, mengukuhkan dan menerapkan nilai demokrasi, dan membuka jalan untuk pemulihan negara dan kehidupan normal.

Kita perlu mempunyai stamina dan kecekalan untuk terus membawa perubahan politik yang lebih baik di Malaysia.

Empat puluh tahun yang lepas, pada 21 Mac 1978, saya telah bawakan satu usul persendirian di Parlimen untuk membentangkan undang-undang anti-lompat parti untuk menyekat rasuah politik dan mempertahankan integriti Parlimen. Lima puluh tahun yang lepas pada tahun 1971, saya telah bangkitkan di Parlimen supaya had umur mengundi diturunkan kepada 18 tahun.

Kini, saya sudah berumur 80 tahun, dan saya berbesar hati melihat reformasi yang saya perjuangkan setengah abad yang lalu akhirnya menjadi kenyataan.

Mari kita perhatikan, parti politik manakah yang akan meletakkan jumlah calon Parlimen dan Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) berusia di antara 18 ke 21 yang paling ramai dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 kelak.

DAP dan Pakatan Harapan sentiasa memperjuangkan perubahan yang demokratik untuk negara dan bukannya agenda peribadi dan perkara ini adalah satu contoh yang jelas.

Pemimpin dan aktivis DAP perlu memimpin pendapat masyarakat yang bahawa negara kita memerlukan moratorium dan gencatan politik untuk tempoh 10 ke 18 bulan yang akan datang sehingga Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 supaya kita boleh fokus untuk memenangi perang melawan Covid-19 dan menetapkan semula negara kita ke arah pemulihan ekonomi, kehidupan sosial dan kembali normal.

Sekiranya tidak ada memorandum persefahaman CSR ini, Ismail Sabri mungkin telah kalah dalam undian pertama beliau di Parlimen untuk menentukan pelantikan Timbalan Yang di Pertua Dewan Rakyat pada hari pertama perbahasan pada Selasa lepas dan beliau mungkin akan mencatatkan sejarah sebagai Perdana Menteri dengan penggal terpendek — lebih pendek daripada penggal 17 bulan Muhyiddin Yassin.

Tetapi sekarang bukanlah masanya untuk plot dan komplot politik, sebaliknya kita semua sebagai rakyat Malaysia perlu bersatu dan bekerjasama, tanpa mengira kaum, agama, kawasan, mahupun politik, untuk menamatkan gelombang penularan Covid-19 yang terpanjang di dunia yang telah menjangkiti lebih daripada dua juta orang dan mengorbankan lebih daripada 22,000 nyawa di Malaysia, terutamanya apabila mana-mana Perdana Menteri ke-10 yang akan dilantik melalui plot dan komplot itu bukannya Anwar Ibrahim.

Kita masih mempunyai perbezaan kritikal dengan parti-parti kerajaan, mengenai hal demokrasi berperlembagaan dan Rukun Negara, berkenaan kedaulatan undang-undang, tadbir urus yang baik, perang melawan rasuah dan penyalahgunaan kuasa, penghormatan kepada hak asasi manusia, kebebasan bersuara dan berpendapat, ketidaksamaan taraf ekonomi, sosial, dan akses kepada pendidikan, masa hadapan Malaysia sebagai negara hebat bertaraf dunia, dan bagaimana untuk kita menyatukan pelbagai kaum, agama, kawasan, dan budaya di Malaysia.

Tetapi, perbezaan ini perlu menunggu masa yang sesuai kerana kita berhadapan dengan ancaman besar Covid-19.

Persamaan kita semua, sebagai rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum, agama, kawasan, atau politik, perlulah diketengahkan dan keutamaan bersama kita semua mestilah untuk memenangi perang melawan wabak Covid-19 untuk memastikan adanya masa hadapan yang selamat untuk kita semua.

Inilah ujian terbesar dalam membuktikan cinta seseorang itu kepada negara dan rakyat Malaysia.

(Ucapan Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang dalam perbincangan atas talian melalui Zoom bersama dengan DAP Johor pada hari Rabu, 15 September 2021, jam 8:30 malam)

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Three wishes for the 58th Malaysia Day on 16.9.2021

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I have three wishes for the 58th Malaysia Day today on 16th September 2021.

Firstly, that when we celebrate our 59th Malaysia Day in 12 months’ time on 16th September 2022, there would be no doubt whatsoever that we have won the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

When we celebrated the 57th Malaysia Day on September 16, 2020, we had 10,031 Covid-19 cases and 128 Covid-19 deaths. In the last 12 months, these have increased to more than two million Covid-19 cases – and our daily new Covid-19 cases is more than the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases on the 57th Malaysia Day – and more than 22,000 Covid-19 deaths.

Last month in August alone, Covid-19 cases increased by 632,982 cases and Covid-19 deaths increased by 7,640 cases.

The change of Prime Minister from Muhyiddin Yassin to Ismail Sabri has not seen any decline in Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths. In fact, the 16 days of September would see over 300,000 cases and 6,500 deaths!

By the 59th Malaysia Day on Sept. 16, 2022, we must reduce the daily new Covid-19 cases to double-digit figures and Covid-19 deaths to single-digit figures, and a fall-back of Malaysia’s ranking among nations in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 figures from No. 21 to some 100th ranking.

This is not an impossible goal, considering that China, which has 44 times’ population of Malaysia, has fallen from the No. 1 position in the Covid-19 pandemic 21 months ago to the No. 109 ranking today.

My second wish is that the Cabinet would take a clear-cut position against the Attorney-General’s move on behalf of the Home Ministry to appeal the High Court decision granting automatic citizenship to foreign-born children of all Malaysian parents and to instruct the Attorney-General to withdraw the appeal.

A group of 13 MPs from the government and opposition have banded together to seek Prime Minister Ismail Sabri’s intervention over the matter.

Let the appeal of the 13 MPs be the voice of Parliament as it is high time that Malaysia catches with changing international trends on human rights or let the debate of thanks for the Royal Address become a parliamentary vote instructing the

Attorney-General to withdraw the appeal.

My third wish is that the reference in the Memorandum of Understanding on Transformation and Political Stability signed between the Federal Government and the Pakatan Harapan political parties to the strengthening of efforts towards the implementation of MH63 would result in a position paper on the matter to be tabled in Parliament at the budget meeting next month.

(Malaysia Day Message by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 16th September 2021)

Tiga harapan untuk Hari Malaysia ke-58 pada 16.9.2021

Saya mempunyai tiga harapan untuk Hari Malaysia ke-58 pada 16 September 2021.

Pertamanya, apabila kita menyambut Hari Malaysia ke-59 dalam tempoh 12 bulan lagi pada 16 September 2022, tidak ada sebarang keraguan bahawa kita telah memenangi perang melawan wabak Covid-19.

Semasa kita menyambut Hari Malaysia ke-57 pada 16 September 2020, kita mencatatkan 10,031 kes Covid-19 dan 128 kematian akibat wabak ini. Dalam 12 bulan yang lepas, angka ini telah meningkat kepada dua juta kes Covid-19 — dengan angka kes baharu kita yang lebih tinggi berbanding dengan jumlah kes terkumpul pada Hari Malaysia ke-57 — dan lebih daripada 22,000 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Dalam bulan Ogos yang lepas sahaja, kes Covid-19 meningkat sebanyak 632,982 kes dan kematian bertambah sebanyak 7,640 kematian.

Pertukaran Perdana Menteri daripada Muhyiddin Yassin ke Ismail Sabri masih belum menunjukkan penurunan kadar kes dan kematian akibat Covid-19. Malah, 16 hari pertama bulan September mencatatkan lebih daripada 300,000 kes dan 6,500 kematian!

Menjelang Hari Malaysia ke-59 kelak pada 16 September 2022, kita perlu menurunkan kadar kes harian ini ke julat dua angka dan memastikan kadar kematian berada dalam julat satu angka, dan terus berusaha menurunkan kedudukan Malaysia daripada tempat ke-21 dengan jumlah tertinggi kes terkumpul di dunia ke kedudukan di sekitar tempat ke-100 di dunia.

Ini bukan satu sasaran yang mustahil, memandangkan China, yang mempunyai 44 kali ganda lebih ramai penduduk berbanding dengan Malaysia, telah jatuh daripada kedudukan teratas sekali ke tempat ke-109 hari ini.

Harapan kedua saya adalah supaya Kabinet mengambil kedudukan yang jelas mengenai tindakan Peguam Negara bagi pihak Kementerian Dalam Negeri yang membuat rayuan mengenai keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi untuk memberikan kerakyatan secara automatik kepada anak kelahiran warganegara Malaysia yang dilahirkan di luar negara dan supaya Kabinet mengarahkan Peguam Negara untuk menarik semula rayuan tersebut.

Sekumpulan 13 orang Ahli Parlimen, baik dari pihak kerajaan mahupun pembangkang telah bekerjasama untuk meminta campur tangan Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri mengenai perkara ini.

Jadikan rayuan 13 orang Ahli Parlimen ini satu suara Parlimen memandangkan memang sudah tiba masanya untuk Malaysia mengekori jejak langkah antarabangsa dalam hal hak asasi manusia, atau masukkan dalam perbahasan menjunjung kasih untuk mendesak Peguam Negara menarik semula permohonan rayuan tersebut.

Harapan ketiga saya adalah supaya sebutan mengenai usaha kepada pengukuhan pelaksanaan MA63 dalam Memorandum Persefahaman Transformasi dan Kestabilan Politik yang ditandatangani oleh Kerajaan Persekutuan dan Pakatan Harapan ini membawa kepada pembentangan kertas dasar mengenai perkara ini di Parlimen semasa persidangan Belanjawan bulan hadapan.

(Perutusan Hari Malaysia Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis, 16 September 2021)

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DAP and PH will do their utmost to make the CSR MOU signed between Ismail Sabri and Pakatan Harapan work although there is  no guarantee that it will successfully usher Malaysia into a new political landscape

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There is no guarantee that the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri and Pakatan Harapan (PH) parties will successfully usher Malaysia into a new political landscape.

The CSR MOU has evoked a whole spectrum of reactions, from a G25 spokesman and a former Treasury secretary-general in the early nineties who said there was now hope that the country will progress towards a smooth pandemic recovery as he was more confident about the country moving ahead compared to just a few days ago and saw light at the end of the tunnel to the other extreme that saw the CSR MOU as giving a life-line to those who wanted Malaysia to continue in the trajectory towards a kleptocracy, kakistocracy and a failed state.

The CSR MOU also raised the alarm that it marked the end of the Opposition in Parliament.

Undoubtedly, the CSR MOU can fail as it will depend on both sides keeping to their bargain.

DAP and PH will do their utmost to honour their undertaking in the CSR MOU because we cannot allow the Covid-19 pandemic to continue with its ravages of lives and livelihoods in Malaysia, causing over two million Covid-19 cases and a toll of over 22,000 lives in 21 months.

Yesterday, on the 58th Malaysia Day, with 345 Covid-19 deaths, Malaysia was the world’s Top No. 5 country in daily Covid-19 deaths after the United States (1,291 deaths), Russia (794), Brazil (600) and Iran (453).

Since the swearing-in of the new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin 18 days ago on August 30, Malaysians are still waiting for signs of a significant decline of daily new Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths.

The daily average of new Covid-19 cases in the last 18 days was above 19,000 cases and the rolling daily Covid-19 deaths for the last 18 days was 330 deaths.

In view of the 14-day incubation period of the coronavirus, it is to be noted that the average of the daily Covid-19 deaths over the last four days is 411 deaths.

Are we heading with this present rate of exponential increase of Covid-19 infections and Covid-19 deaths which will take us to a cumulative total of over three million Covid-19 cases and 30,000 Covid-19 deaths by the end of October?

According to “Our World in Data” website, we are the top nation on Sept. 15 for “daily Covid-19 deaths per million population” not only for ASEAN, beating Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam, we also beat other bigger nations like China, India, Japan, South Korea, United States, United Kingdom, Iran, Turkey, Brazil and Mexico.

This is why there must be a political ceasefire in the next 10-18 months to unite Malaysians to single-mindedly win the losing war against the Covid-19 pandemic and overcome the existential threat posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

We do not want Malaysia to end up as a kleptocracy, kakistocracy and a failed state.

The CSR MOU will not mean the end of the Opposition in Parliament for the DAP and PH Members of Parliament will continue to be as articulate and outspoken for justice, freedom, progress and unity as ever.

We want to fulfil the Malaysian Dream for Malaysia to become a world-class great nation and to bring to fruition the aspiration of Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman for Malaysia to be a “beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.

But Malaysians, regardless of ethnicity, religion, region or politics, must ensure that the CSR MOU signed between Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan leaders give Malaysia the historic opportunity to reset the country for economic, social and national recovery in the post-Covid-19 pandemic era and save Malaysia.

I hope Warisan, Pejuang and Muda support and sign the CSR MOU with the Prime Minister for a better future for all Malaysians.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 17 September 2021)

DAP dan PH akan melakukan yang terbaik untuk menjayakan memorandum persefahaman yang ditandatangani antara Ismail Sabri dan Pakatan Harapan walaupun tidak ada jaminan bahawa ia akan berjaya membawa Malaysia ke suatu landskap politik baru

Tiada jaminan bahawa memorandum persefahaman reformasi-perbekalan-kepercayaan (CSR) yang ditandatangani antara Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri dan komponen Pakatan Harapan (PH) akan berjaya membawa Malaysia ke landskap politik baru.

Memorandum CSR telah menimbulkan pelbagai reaksi, dari jurucakap G25 dan mantan ketua setiausaha perbendaharaan yang mengatakan benda ini memberikan harapan bahawa negara sedang bergerak ke arah pemulihan pandemik yang lancar berbanding dengan beberapa hari lepas dan memberi sinar harapan bahawa perjanjian ini dapat menghentikan usaha pihak tentu yang mahu Malaysia menjadi sebuah negara kleptokrasi, kakistokrasi dan gagal.

MOU CSR ini juga telah menimbulkan kebimbangan bahawa ia akan menjadi tanda berakhirnya era Pembangkang di Parlimen.

Tidak dapat disangkal, MOU CSR boleh menemui jalan buntu kerana ia bergantung kepada tawaran dan persetujuan kedua-dua belah pihak.

DAP dan PH akan melakukan yang terbaik untuk menghormati janji yang termaktub dalam MOU CSR kerana kita tidak boleh membiarkan wabak Covid-19 terus berlanjutan dengan meninggalkan kerosakan terhadap kehidupan dan mata pencarian rakyat Malaysia, mengakibatkan lebih dua juta kes jangkitan Covid-19 dan mengorbankan lebih 22,000 dalam tempoh 21 bulan lalu.

Semalam, pada Hari Malaysia ke-58, sebanyak 345 kes kematian Covid-19 direkodkan, menjadikan Malaysia sebagai negara ke-5 di dunia dengan jumlah kes kematian akibat Covid-19 tertinggi selepas Amerika Syarikat (1,291), Rusia (794), Brazil (600) dan Iran (453).

Sejak Menteri Kesihatan yang baru, Khairy Jamaluddin mengangkat sumpah pada 18 hari yang lalu pada 30 Ogos, rakyat Malaysia masih menunggu tanda-tanda penurunan ketara kes baharu harian Covid-19 dan kes kematian akibat Covid-19.

Purata kes jangkitan Covid-19 sepanjang 18 hari lalu adalah melebihi 19,000 kes dan purata kes kematian akibat Covid-19 untuk tempoh yang sama adalah sebanyak 330 kes.

Memandangkan tempoh inkubasi coronavirus adalah selama 14 hari, perlu ditekankan bahawa purata kes kematian akibat Covid-19 sepanjang empat hari lalu adalah sebanyak 411 kes.

Dengan peningkatan kadar kes jangkitan Covid-19 dan kematian akibat Covid-19 ini, adakah kita akan mengumpulkan lebih lebih tiga juta kes jangkitan Covid-19 dan 30,000 kematian akibat Covid-19 pada akhir Oktober depan?

Menurut laman web “Our World in Data”, kita adalah negara teratas pada 15 September dengan “kes kematian akibat Covid-19 per sejuta penduduk” tertinggi, bukan hanya di rantau ASEAN, malah turut menewaskan Indonesia, Filipina, Thailand, Myanmar dan Vietnam, kita juga menewaskan negara-negara besar yang lain seperti China, India, Jepun, Korea Selatan, Amerika Syarikat, United Kingdom, Iran, Turki, Brazil dan Mexico.

Inilah sebabnya mengapa gencatan senjata politik mesti dilaksanakan dalam tempoh 10-18 bulan dari sekarang untuk menyatukan rakyat Malaysia supaya mereka dapat memberikan tumpuan tidak berbelah dalam usaha memenangi perang melawan wabak Covid-19 dan mengatasi kesan yang ditimbulkan oleh wabak ini.

Kita tidak mahu Malaysia berakhir sebagai negara kleptokrasi, kakistokrasi dan gagal.

MOU CSR tidak bermaksud tiada lagi blok Pembangkang di Parlimen kerana Ahli Parlimen DAP dan PH akan terus bersuara dan mengangkat agenda keadilan, kebebasan, kemajuan dan perpaduan seperti biasa yang kami lalukan selama ini.

Kami ingin memenuhi Impian Malaysia; untuk negara ini menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia dan untuk menunaikan hasrat Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman agar Malaysia menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang kelam dan terganggu”.

Pun begitu, rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira etnik, agama, wilayah atau politik, perlu memastikan bahawa MOU CSR yang ditandatangani antara Ismail Sabri dan pemimpin PH memberikan peluang bersejarah untuk menetapkan semula hala tuju negara ini ke arah pemulihan ekonomi dan sosial dalam era pasca-Covid-19 selain menyelamatkan Malaysia.

Saya berharap Warisan, Pejuang dan Muda menyokong dan menandatangani MOU CSR dengan Perdana Menteri untuk masa depan yang lebih baik bagi semua rakyat Malaysia.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Jumaat, 17 September 2021)

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Why despite my mounting reservations about Ismail Sabri’s premiership in tackling the Covid-19 Pandemic and reset the country’s democratic directions, I still support the CSR MOU

Despite my mounting reservations about Ismail Sabri’s premiership in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic and reset the country’s democratic direction, Malaysians should give the ninth Prime Minister a chance to acquit  himself and support the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by Ismail and Pakatan Harapan leaders on Monday.

The support for the CSR MOU is  not for Ismail Sabri’s sake but for the sake of the country and the future.

Firstly, let me dwell on my mounting reservations about Ismail’s Sabri’s premiership.

In three days’ time, it would be Ismail’s first month as the ninth Prime Minister of Malaysia. I have been quite disappointed by Ismail’s performance since he was sworn in as the ninth Prime Minister by the Yang di Pertuan Agong as there had been a spate of events which I cannot support or agree.

These events include:

·       His failure to seek a vote of confidence as the first item of parliamentary business.

·       His jumbo-sized Cabinet  which is a recycling of the Muhyiddin Cabinet, except for the appointment of Khairy Jamaluddin as the new Health Minister.

·       The appointment of Muhyiddin Yassin as Chairman of the National Recovery Council.

·       Ismail’s nomination of Ahmad Maslan as Deputy Speaker of Parliament.

·       The appointment of Ismail’s elder brother, Zamri Yaakob as the new chairman of National Farmers’ Organisation (Nafas).

·       Women, Family and Community Development Minister Rina Harun’s failure to explain how she could settle her RM1.9 million lawsuit to avoid bankruptcy action.

·        The dropping of 29 corruption charges against former Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) board member Datuk Noor Ehsanuddin Mohd Harun Narrashid.

·       The failure of the Cabinet to uphold the  High Court decision that children born overseas to Malaysian mothers are entitled to Malaysian citizenship by operation of law.

·       Ismail’s failure to meet with the Malaysian Consultative Council on Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taosim (MCCBCHST) to clear the air that there are no  plans to enact a new law targeting non-Muslims.

·       The appointment of Cabinet members  who are not committed to uphold the Malaysian Constitution and the Rukun Negara principles of nation-building.

But most important of all, there are no signs that we have turned the corner in the losing war against the Covid-19 pandemic after almost a month of Ismail’s premiership and three weeks  after the swearing-in of a new Health Minister.

Yesterday, with 17,577 new Covid-19 cases and 388 Covid-19 deaths, we ranked as the world’s Top No. 8th nation in daily new Covid-19 cases and world’s Top No. 4th nation in daily Covid-19 deaths.

When we celebrated the 57th Malaysia Day on Sept. 16, 2020, Malaysia had a cumulative total of 10,031 Covid-19 cases and 128 Covid-19 deaths. Now we have a cumulative total of 2,067,317 Covid-19 cases and 22,743 Covid-19 deaths.

In the past week, we recorded a total of 2,916 Covid-19 deaths, the highest death htoll in any week in the 21-month Covid-19 pandemic.

If past week’s death toll continues for a year, we will have  more than 150,000 Covid-19 deaths in one year.

For 31 days we have lost out to Indonesia in daily new Covid-19 cases.  For the past  two days, we lost out  to India in daily Covid-19 deaths. India yesterday recorded 285 Covid-19  deaths as against Malaysia’s 380 deaths.

Even the Global Covid-19 Index (GCI) conceived  by Pemandu Associates with the support of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation has given up on Malaysia, placing Malaysia in the rank of 152 out of 180 countries  in its update of Sept. 16, 2021.

Ismail Sabri is not a reformer but if he is forced by political circumstances to be a reformer, he deserves full support – not for  anyone’s sake but for the sake of the country.

Malaysia needs a political moratorium for 10-18 months before the next general election as we do not want Malaysia to fall into  the trajectory of a kleptocracy, kakistocracy and a failed state.

In these 10-18 months, Malaysia must devise a new policy and strategy to win the losing war against the Covid-19 pandemic and re-set institutional and parliamentary reforms so that Malaysians  can return to the mission to make plural Malaysia a world-class  great nation.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 18th September 2021)

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Queries and doubts about new Covid-19 deaths including increasing BID cases which await clarification from Khairy Jamaluddin

I have this morning received an email from a scholar tracking Covid-19 data, reinforcing doubts and queries about the recent data about Covid-19 deaths which must be clarified by the new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin.

In fact, I would suggest that Khairy should make a Ministerial statement on the issue in Parliament tomorrow.

This is the email from the scholar tracking Covid-19 data in Malaysia:

“I have a serious concern about the new method of reporting Covid-19 deaths adopted by MOH. It is potentially a highly misleading way of presenting the data.

“The graph on deaths on this website https://covidnow.moh.gov.my/ purportedly shows the number of ‘actual deaths (7d average)’. This term is patently wrong. The number associated with that term is not the 7-day average of actual deaths. Rather, the number seems to be the 7-day average of hitherto confirmed actual deaths.

“Depending on how fast MOH confirms reported deaths, the latter number can be a very substantial underestimate of the former number.

“Below is a hypothetical example, assuming that MOH can clear almost all the tasks of confirmation of reported deaths 7 days ago, and the number of completed tasks decreases as the date approaches the current date.

Date

Actual number of deaths

Actual number of deaths confirmed on 19/09

13/09/2021

205

200

14/09/2021

212

190

15/09/2021

198

150

16/09/2021

221

101

17/09/2021

209

52

18/09/2021

207

21

19/09/2021

201

3

7-day average of actual deaths

7-day average of hitherto confirmed actual deaths

207.5714286

102.4285714

“As you can see, the 7-day average of hitherto confirmed actual deaths is only around 50% of the 7-day average of actual deaths.

“Thus, the 7-day average of hitherto confirmed actual deaths is not anywhere near an accurate estimate of the 7-day average of actual deaths.

“When we can’t measure the exact number, an accurate estimate is often useful. However, since the estimate here is wildly inaccurate, I don’t see any value in including that information in the graph.

“There is a claim by some MOH official that this new reporting method gives a more accurate reflection of the current trend. But this is false. I’ve seen a few occasions where the number of actual deaths on the day before is a single digit which has then grown to a double-digit figure after a few days later.

“In the hypothetical example above, if the previous week 7-day average is 200, then there is no reduction in 7-day average of deaths at all. The 7-day average of hitherto confirmed actual deaths gives a misleading picture of reduction by half. The reduction is only an indicator of MOH’s inability to complete their tasks in a timely manner.

“If some cases take weeks or even months to confirm, then the estimate is even more skewed than what is depicted in the hypothetical example above.

One might argue that despite the short-term inaccuracy of this estimate, in the long-run it provides a better picture of the actual situation. But that is not true. So long as the rate of completing the task of confirming reported deaths is constant, the graph is always inaccurate at the final segment, and that segment can include the past week or the past few weeks or even the past few months, depending on how fast MOH clears the backlog.

“When the final segment is very different from the real situation, how can one make reliable extrapolation into the near future?

“MOH should give a strict deadline for staff to clear the backlog. If the deadline is 7 days, then MOH should only report the number of deaths up to one week from now. There is no point presenting grossly inaccurate estimates of data.

“Could it be that MOH realises that it has difficulty completing the tasks of confirmation within 7 days?”

Khairy should not only clarify this scholar’s queries, he should also explain why he failed in one of his priorities to reduce the Brought-in-dead (BID) Covid-19 death cases, as he had said that 86% of the 2,417 BID cases in August were not under any healthcare provider’s care.

Why has his strategy to reduce the number of BID cases by ensuring that the public get tested once they develop Covid-19 symptoms and get medical attention has failed, as the number of BID death cases in his three weeks as Health Minister is very much more than the last three weeks of the previous Minister of Health.

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When will Malaysia  start losing instead of overtaking other nations in cumulative total of Covid-19 cases as Malaysia will overtake three nations in Khairy Jamaluddin’s  first month as Health Minister and be ranked No. 20 among nations in the world  by next Friday?

When will Malaysia  start losing instead of overtaking other nations in cumulative total of Covid-19 cases as Malaysia will overtake three nations in Khairy Jamaluddin’s  first month as Health Minister and be ranked No. 20 among nations in the world  by next Friday?

When Khairy was sworn in as the new Health Minister on August 30, Malaysia was ranked No. 23 among nations in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-18 cases.

By next Friday, Malaysia would have over taken three other  nations to be ranked No. 20 in the world for the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases –  and the three  countries are  Iraq, Netherlands and by next Friday, Peru.

Khairy’s appointment as  the new Health Minister in the Ismail Sabri cabinet was the only appointment that was welcomed all-round, as he is expected to lead in winning the losing war in the Covid-19 pandemic with a new policy and strategy.

Apart from introducing a new website, there are no signs that Malaysia is out the woods in the Covid-19 pandemic, and the daily  Covid-19 data are still alarming.

The Covid-19 death rate are exceptionally high particularly  in the past week, to the extent that we have more daily Covid-19 deaths than India for the past three days.

We have lost out to China in both daily new Covid-19 cases and daily Covid-19 deaths. Yesterday we lost out Indonesia and India in daily Covid-19 deaths. #

Yesterday, we are still the world’s No. 8th country in daily new Covid-19 cases and world’s No. 4th country in daily Covid19 deaths.

Are not these disturbing signs of Malaysia’s capability and competence as a state and why Khairy’s  top priority as the new Health Minister is  to restore confidence and trust in the health system of Malaysia?

I asked a medical expert who is tracking Malaysia’s performance in the

Covid-19 pandemic and his opinion are not flattering.

Khairy should respond to his comments, as follows:

“Well, this week has proven to be a challenge for those of us trying to keep track of the data concerning the Covid situation in Malaysia.

“The new website launched by new Minister of Health has not been forthcoming with data update daily.

“Firstly only the daily new cases and total cases are updated daily by tweet. The rest of the data like the daily deaths follow the next day, and the testing data has not been updated since 14th September.

“I managed to find one website which showed test rates for 17th September, But the numbers stated were so far out, I really do not know if it is a deliberate error or a genuine error.

“It is virtually impossible to suddenly test more then 100,000 tests more than the usual? Something is not right?

“We have to daily compare the test rates and the number of positives, to know the prevalence of the disease still in the community, and indirectly, the effect of the vaccines rolled out.

“By not making tests rates available, we have no way of judging the accuracy of the daily new case numbers quoted or the effect of the vaccines.

“Suffice to say that among ASEAN countries, we are performing the worst. As an example, in August, Thailand had a severe increase in cases to the 20K range (like us).

“But within six weeks their numbers are now in the 13-14K range. And that is despite street protest regularly. They also have a larger population and Bangkok population density is higher than us.

“What ever KJ was trying to explain about his ‘clearing the backlog’ to give more accurate numbers especially of deaths has not quite borne out.

“Over the week, we have quietly cross the 1% mark in terms of crude covid mortality. In January 2021, this CFR was about 0.6%. This week we cross the 1% mortality mark and yesterday, the crude infection fatality was 1.1%.

“There is essentially no difference, and deaths seem to have risen. But this week the numbers are so inconsistent that it is so difficult to make conclusions on them.

“There are still a significant number of Brought-in Dead (BID) cases and there is no attempt to educate or treat them early. Basically, category  1 and 2 patients are still quarantined at home and a significant number develops ‘happy hypoxia’ and then deteriorate and die. BID. This is so sad.

“As an example of how Malaysians, once liberated, throw caution to the wind, and mix, mingle with no SOP, No mask, No distancing as evidenced of folks enjoying themselves over the weekend and Thursday at that tourist waterfall park. It was crowded and obviously all were having a good time.

“Following that, the government opened up Langkawi. Next week, we shall see the folly of these two events. Vaccination rate in Selangor is about 60% and Kedah is about 43%. Neither are near the threshold for community immunity. I hope that these two events will not turn out to be super spreader events and set us back again.

“Vaccination rates seemed to have slowed. I can only gauge from the slow rise in fully vaccinated numbers. They have stopped publishing daily vaccination numbers. At the last estimate two days ago, there were only 0.25 million doses given, when the daily target till October, should be 0.5 million doses daily? Are we running short of vaccines again? Where have all the vaccines that we bought gone

“Of course, the most important question on all Malaysian lips is, ‘what is the strategy that this new minister is going to adopt to get us out of this crisis?’ The way forward?

“The national vaccine uptake of fully vaccinated is at about 55% not quite near the 70-80% level for community immunity against this delta variant.

“Vaccines alone may not be good enough. Soon the seniors like us may have to consider booster shots as the vaccine immunity may last 6-8 months. MPs may need to be re-vaccinated. Will there be enough vaccines?

“The new Minister was out in Kajang visiting the Kajang Hospital unannounced. That is good. I hope he had been able to boost the morale of the staff there.

“Maybe we should suggest that he visit a district hospital every month, including district hospitals in Johore, Penang, Kelantan, Pahang, and see what is happening there for himself.

“There is still no word about the Cabinet decision on the contract MOs except to allow them to sit their postgraduate exams. What about other details like training posts, longer tenure of contracts, possibility of a permanent posts in future, etc?

“Make no mistakes, there will be more pandemics in the future and we need more specialists. This would also be a good time to seek more budget for healthcare and MOH.

“Let the pandemic be a wake-up call as it has revealed many of our shortcomings.

“This is also budget time. We need more allocation for healthcare as zoonotic infections and pandemic will surely visit us again.

“It is quite obvious that PM8’s target of having all Malaysians vaccinated by October 2021 will not be met. We are now 55% fully vaccinated and there is about one more month to go.

“Can we have  more detailed information about our vaccine stocks? We should have a simple inventory accounting.

“Since vaccination seem to be the main MOH strategy to control Covid-19,  what is the exact situation now?

“Will MOH give us an update on the number of adverse reaction to the vaccines (almost 40 million doses administered) so far? We hear some reactions occasionally? How many deaths, heart inflammation, blood clots, nerve damage, and others?

“Will MOH also tell us how many non-Covid diseases are we still treating, like dengue fever, heart attacks, strokes, severe asthmas, brain haemorrhage and how many have died, as these are medical emergencies that cannot wait, especially in the district levels where there are no private hospitals to share the emergency care?

“In Klang Valley and other cities, there are the private hospitals to share the load. What about districts with no private centres and these emergencies come? How many have died because there were no beds available?”

Over to Khairy!

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021)

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CSR MOU may fail as Ismail Sabri government is not Pakatan Harapan government but any  such failure must  not stem from Pakatan Harapan parties not honouring their commitments under MOU

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One question that is frequently asked in DAP zoom meetings throughout the country is whether the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri and Pakatan Harapan can fail.

Yes, the CSR MOU can fail as the Ismail Sabri government is not a Pakatan Harapan government, but any such failure must not stem from Pakatan Harapan parties not honouring their commitments under the MOU.

As the Pakatan Harapan parties have given their commitments in the MOU, we must have the integrity, honesty and principles to ensure that we honour our undertakings in the MOU.

As the Ismail Sabri government is not a Pakatan Harapan Government, there are many things which the Ismail Sabri government is doing which the Pakatan Harapan parties, leaders and MPs cannot agree with.

We will remain an articulate and outspoken opposition to measures and policies which we cannot accept, but we must remain committed to our undertakings in the CSR MOU.

The ninth Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri, has also given solemn undertaking on various matters on the No.1 issue in the country, to win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, and to reset the country through institutional and parliamentary reforms.

If Ismail Sabri does not honour his undertakings, and the CSR MOU fails,, then let the people understand clearly and categorically where the faults lie and why the CSR MOU has failed.

But I am glad to see Ismail Sabri beginning to implement various proposals in the CSR MOU, particularly on the Covid-19 pandemic – which are good signs.

However, there are certainly “red lines” which neither side should violate, as for instance, Malaysia becoming more kleptocratic, authoritarian and undemocratic.

The CSR MOU is an excellent opportunity to see policy changes in the county;

I first raised the need for anti-hopping legislation in Parliament fifty years ago and it is good to see this is one of the issues agreed by both side in the CSR MOU.

There is a special reference in the CSR MOU which is very significant – ensuring judicial independence.

I think the very mention of ensuring judicial independence had done more than anything else to reaffirm the commitment of the Malaysian society, irrespective of political differences, to the important constitutional principles of the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law.

This would involve a major work-in-progress but a start has been made in the the CSR MoU and the Steering Committee, which under the CSR MOU will be responsible for the implementation of the memorandum of understanding, has a most creative and challenging role to set the country on the path of a world-class great nation status.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang to Selangor DAP leaders at a zoom meeting on the CSR MOU on Sunday, 19th September 2021 at 9 pm)

MOU CSR mungkin gagal kerana kerajaan Ismail Sabri ini bukanlah kerajaan Pakatan Harapan, tetapi sebarang kegagalan ini tidak akan disebabkan oleh parti-parti Pakatan Harapan tidak memenuhi komitmennya

Satu persoalan yang kerap ditanya dalam mesyuarat zoom DAP di seluruh negara adalah sama ada memorandum persefahaman keyakinan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) di antara Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri dan Pakatan Harapan boleh gagal.

Ya, memorandum CSR ini mungkin akan gagal, kerana kerajaan Ismail Sabri ini bukanlah sebuah kerajaan Pakatan Harapan, tetapi sebarang kegagalan ini tidak boleh disebabkan oleh parti-parti Pakatan Harapan yang tidak memenuhi komitmen kita di bawah memorandum ini.

Memandangkan parti-parti PH telah memberikan komitmen kita kepada memorandum ini, kita perlu mempunyai integriti, kejujuran, dan prinsip untuk memastikan kita terus memenuhi janji kita di bawah MOU ini.

Memandangkan kerajaan Ismail Sabri ini bukanlah kerajaan Pakatan Harapan, terdapat banyak perkara yang dibuat oleh kerajaan beliau yang tidak dapat dipersetujui oleh parti, pemimpin, dan Ahli-ahli Parlimen Pakatan Harapan.

Kita akan terus menjadi pembangkang yang lantang bersuara terhadap dasar dan tindakan yang tidak boleh diterima, tetapi pada masa yang sama, kekal komited terhadap janji yang kita persetujui di bawah MOU ini.

Perdana Menteri kesembilan, Ismail Sabri, juga telah memberikan janji mengenai pelbagai perkara mengenai isu nombor 1 negara buat masa ini, untuk memenangi perang melawan Covid-19 dan mengembalikan negara kita ke landasan yang betul dengan reformasi institusi dan Parlimen.

Sekiranya Ismail Sabri tidak memenuhi janjinya dan menyebabkan MOU ini gagal, kita perlu pastikan rakyat faham di mana silapnya dan siapa yang menjadi punca kegagalan MOU ini.

Tetapi, saya berbesar hati melihat Ismail Sabri mula melaksanakan pelbagai cadangan dalam MOU CSR ini, terutamanya yang berkaitan dengan wabak Covid-19 — yang merupakan satu petanda yang baik.

Namun, terdapat “garis merah” yang tidak boleh dicabuli oleh mana-mana pihak, misalnya, membiarkan Malaysia menjadi lebih kleptokratik, lebih autokratik, atau semakin tidak demokratik.

MOU CSR ini adalah satu peluang yang baik untuk melihat perubahan dasar dalam negara; saya pertama kali bangkitkan keperluan untuk adanya undang-undang anti lompat parti di Parlimen lima puluh tahun yang lepas dan saya berbesar hati akhirnya dapat melihat perkara ini menjadi salah satu isu yang dipersetujui oleh kedua belah pihak dalam MOU CSR.

Terdapat juga satu perkara yang amat penting dalam MOU CSR tersebut — kebebasan pihak kehakiman.

Saya percaya, jaminan kebebasan sistem kehakiman ini sahaja sekalipun telah membantu menegaskan komitmen terhadap masyarakat Malaysia yang berpegang kepada prinsip perlembagaan dengan kebebasan sistem kehakiman dan kedaulatan undang-undang.

Perkara ini semestinya akan melibatkan pelbagai usaha, kita mulakan usaha-usaha ini dengan MOU CSR, dan Jawatankuasa Pemandu memorandum CSR yang bertanggungjawab ke atas pelaksanaan memorandum ini akan berhadapan dengan cabaran yang besar untuk mencari cara yang kreatif untuk meletakkan negara kita ke arah menjadi sebuah negara hebat yang bertaraf dunia.

(Ucapan Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang kepada Pemimpin DAP Selangor melalui persidangan Zoom mengenai MOU CSR pada hari Ahad, 19 September 2021)

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The 14,954 daily new cases yesterday is the  first Covid-19 good news under Ismail Sabri premiership but one swallow does not make a summer

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The 14,954 daily new cases yesterday is the first Covid-19 good news under the Ismail Sabri premiership since his appointment as the ninth Prime Minister exactly a month ago by the Yang d Pertuan Agong.

It is the lowest in some two months since July 26, when Malaysia recorded 14,516 daily new Covid-19 cases.

This is the first time that daily new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia had fallen below 15,000 cases for some two months. In the 59 days since July 26, Malaysia had for 21 days recorded over 20,000 daily new cases, reaching a peak of 24,544 cases on 26th August, while recording new cases in the 15,000-range only for two days.

One must however remember the saying “One swallow does not make a summer” and wait for the next few days to see whether the first good news for a year about the Covid-19 pandemic is here to stay – whether the worst of the longest Covid-19 wave in the world since the Sabah state general election last September is over and we have turned the corner to see the daily new cases come down to below 10,000 cases before falling to four-digit and then three-digit figures.

We must not let our guard down, however, for the struggle to win the war over the Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, firstly, because we are one of the worst-performing nations in the world in the Covid-19 pandemic and secondly, the havoc and destruction that is being caused by the Delta variant as seen by other countries in the world.

A fly in the ointment is the high death rate, particularly Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia, which is best illustrated by the difficulty of the new Health Ministry website to post the data on Covid-19 deaths yesterday which only went up shortly before 6 am this morning instead of by midnight.

Medical and public health experts tracking the Covid-19 data have been complaining about the new website, particularly with regard to the Covid-19 deaths data, including the BID data, and I had suggested that the new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, should make a Ministerial statement in Parliament on the matter to clear the air.

Khairy should in particular explain why he had so far failed to reduce the BID Covid-19 deaths, as the number of BID death cases in his three weeks as Health Minister is very much more than the last three weeks of the previous Minister of Health.

Furthermore, Khairy should also explain why Malaysia is continuing to overtake more countries in cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, instead of losing to more countries – as Malaysia under his stewardship as Health Minister will overtake three other countries by the end of this week and be ranked No. 20 among countries in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 20th September 2021)

14,954 kes jangkitan yang dicatatkan semalam adalah berita baik pertama Covid-19 di bawah pentadbiran Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri tetapi ia tidak bermakna situasi penularan wabak di negara ini semakin pulih

14,954 kes jangkitan yang dicatatkan semalam adalah berita baik Covid-19 yang pertama di bawah pentadbiran Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri sejak beliau dilantik menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-9 oleh Yang di-Pertuan Agong tepat sebulan yang lalu.

Ini adalah jumlah kes jangkitan yang paling rendah dalam tempoh dua bulan sejak 26 Julai, ketika Malaysia mencatat 14,516 kes jangkitan Covid-19.

Perkara ini juga adalah kali pertama kes baharu Covid-19 di Malaysia turun di bawah paras 15,000 kes dalam tempoh dua bulan. Dalam 59 hari sejak 26 Julai, Malaysia mencatat lebih daripada 20,000 kes baharu setiap hari untuk selama 21 hari, mencapai puncak 24,544 kes pada 26 Ogos, dengan kes baharu dalam julat 15,000 kes hanya untuk dua hari.

Bagaimanapun, seperti kata pepatah “One swallow does not make a summer” (Satu perkara baik yang terjadi tidak semestinya bermakna situasi keseluruhan semakin bertambah baik) dan kita perlu menunggu beberapa hari akan datang untuk melihat adakah berita baik yang pertama kali kita dengar sejak setahun lepas adalah perkhabaran yang benar-benar baik — sama ada gelombang Covid-19 yang paling buruk dan terpanjang di dunia sejak Pilihan Raya Umum Negeri Sabah pada September lalu telah berakhir dan kita telah beralih ke situasi di mana kes harian turun ke bawah paras 10,000 kes sebelum menurun ke julat empat angka dan kemudian ke julat tiga angka.

Pun begitu, kita harus tetap berwaspada kerana perjuangan dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19 masih belum selesai, pertama, kerana kita adalah salah sebuah negara dengan prestasi paling buruk di dunia dalam pandemik Covid-19 dan kedua, malapetaka dan kehancuran yang diakibatkan oleh penularan varian Delta seperti yang dilihat berlaku di negara-negara lain di dunia.

Kadar kematian yang masih tinggi adalah sebab mengapa kita tidak boleh meraikan kejayaan menurunkan angka kes itu terlalu awal, terutamanya kes kematian akibat Covid-19 yang dibawa ke hospital atau BID, seperti yang digambarkan oleh kesukaran laman web Kementerian Kesihatan yang baru untuk menyiarkan data mengenai kematian Covid-19 semalam yang hanya disiarkan sejurus sebelum jam 6 pagi hari ini dan bukannya menjelang tengah malam.

Pakar perubatan dan kesihatan awam yang mengikut rapat data Covid-19 mengeluh tentang laman web baru berkenaan, terutama berkenaan dengan data kes kematian akibat Covid-19, termasuk data BID, dan saya telah menyarankan agar Menteri Kesihatan yang baru, Khairy Jamaluddin, harus membuat pernyataan Menteri di Parlimen mengenai perkara itu.

Khairy secara khusus harus menjelaskan mengapa beliau masih gagal mengurangkan kes BID setakat ini, kerana jumlah kes BID dalam tempoh tiga minggu beliau menjadi Menteri Kesihatan jauh lebih tinggi berbanding tempoh tiga minggu terakhir Menteri Kesihatan sebelumnya.

Khairy juga harus menjelaskan mengapa Malaysia terus mengatasi banyak negara dengan jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 tertinggi, dan tidak menunjukkan prestasi yang lebih baik – kerana Malaysia di bawah pengawasannya sebagai Menteri Kesihatan bakal mengatasi tiga negara lain pada akhir minggu ini dan berada di kedudukan ke-20 di dunia dengan jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 tertinggi.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin, 20 September 2021)

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CSR  MOU between Ismail Sabri and PH leaders not sure to fail but any failure must not stem from PH

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Let me clarify what I had said at the zoom meeting with DAP Selangor leaders on Sunday: the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan (PH) leaders last Monday is not sure to fail but any failure must not stem from the Pakatan Harapan.

There are those who thought that I had said that the CSR MOU is sure to fail. I did not say that.

But many are expecting the CSR MOU to fail but we in DAP and PH want the CSR MOU to succeed, for its success will usher in a new political landscape for Malaysia.

But the CSR MOU can only succeed if both sides of the MOU co-operate to make it a success, as only one side cannot ensure its success.

The CSR MOU has many enemies.

The Utusan Malaysia interview by the new UMNO Parliamentary Whip, Tajuddin Abdul Rahman that without the CSR MOU, Ismail Sabri could end up as a “30-day Prime Minister” is one good example.

It is time that everyone in Malaysia make the Covid-19 pandemic the No. 1 issue that must be resolved, for we cannot afford to have two million Covid-19 cases and over 22,000 Covid-19 deaths, with more to come in the future.

In the face of the existential threat of Covid-19 pandemic, every other problem must take second place – as what is left if Malaysia is destroyed by the Covid-19 pandemic?

Instead of becoming one of the best-performing nations in the Covid-19 pandemic, we have in the last 21 months become one of the world’s worst-performing states:

· losing out to China (which is ranked No. 109 while Malaysia is ranked No. 21 among nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases);

· losing out to Indonesia in both yesterday’s daily new Covid-19 cases (Malaysia’s 14,345 cases vs Indonesia’s 1,932 cases) and daily Covid-19 deaths (Malaysia’s 301 vs Indonesia’s 166 Covid-19 deaths);

· losing out to India yesterday in daily Covid-19 deaths (262 deaths in India vs 301 in Malaysia).

Pakatan Harapan entered into the CSR MOU not because we want to ensure that Ismail Sabri does not become a 30-day Prime Minister – as this is not within our capability and Anwar Ibrahim does not have majority support in Parliament to become Prime Minister – but to lead Malaysians in having a political ceasefire and moratorium so that we can concentrate every ounce of our energy on resolving the Covid-19 pandemic and reset institutional and parliamentary reforms to make Malaysia a world-class great nation.

This is why we must explain the CSR MOU to all Malaysians and why they 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, regardless of race, religion, region or politics.

If the CSR MOU fails, it is not because of the failure of the PH parties and leaders to fulfil their commitment, but because of the inability of Ismail Sabri to create a consensus to make the CSR MOU work.

The deplorable incident in Parliament yesterday where a senior minister blocked the Parliamentary Speaker, Azhar Azizan Harun, from inviting the DAP MP for Teluk Intan Nga Kor Ming from chairing yesterday’s afternoon meeting is the result of Ismail Sabri’s inability to create consensus within his Cabinet in line with the CSR MoU.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the zoom meeting with DAP leaders in East Coast and Northern states on Monday, 20th September 2021 at 9.30 pm)

MOU CSR di antara Ismail Sabri dan pemimpin PH belum tentu akan gagal, yang pasti kegagalan tidak boleh datang daripada PH

Izinkan untuk saya jelaskan apa yang saya telah nyatakan dalam mesyuarat zoom dengan pemimpin DAP Selangor pada hari Ahad: memorandum persefahaman kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (MOU CSR) yang ditandatangani di antara pihak Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri dan pemimpin Pakatan Harapan pada hari Isnin lepas belum tentu akan gagal, tetapi sebarang kegagalan memorandum persefahaman ini tidak boleh disebabkan oleh Pakatan Harapan.

Ada mereka yang ingat saya telah mengatakan yang MOU CSR ini pastinya akan gagal. Saya tidak katakan sebegitu.

Tetapi, pada masa yang sama, ramai yang menjangkakan kegagalan MOU CSR ini, tetapi di DAP dan PH, kami mahu melihat MOU ini berjaya kerana ia berpotensi membawa landskap politik baharu untuk Malaysia.

Tetapi perkara ini hanya boleh berjaya sekiranya kedua-dua belah pihak dapat bekerjasama untuk menjayakannya, usaha sebelah pihak sahaja tidak mencukupi untuk memastikan kejayaan memorandum persefahaman ini.

MOU CSR ini telah pun mempunyai ramai musuh.

Wawancara Utusan Malaysia dengan Whip Parlimen UMNO, Tajuddin Abdul Rahman, mengatakan tanpa MOU CSR ini, Ismail Sabri akan menjadi “Perdana Menteri 30 Hari” menjadi satu contoh yang baik perkara ini.

Masanya telah tiba untuk semua orang di Malaysia menjadikan wabak Covid-19 di negara kita ini sebagai keutamaan nombor 1 kita semua yang perlu diselesaikan segera. Kita tidak mampu untuk terus mencatatkan dua juta kes dengan lebih daripada 22,000 kematian akibat wabak Covid-19 dengan pertambahan angka-angka ini secara berterusan di masa hadapan.

Berhadapan dengan ancaman terhadap kehidupan kita semua yang dibawa oleh wabak Covid-19 ini, semua masalah-masalah lain perlulah diketepikan buat sementara waktu — jika tidak, apa sahaja yang masih akan ada sekiranya Malaysia dimusnahkan oleh wabak Covid-19?

Daripada menjadi salah satu negara dengan prestasi terbaik menguruskan Covid-19, dalam 21 bulan yang lepas, kita mencatatkan sejarah sebagai negara dengan prestasi terburuk di dunia:

– Kita kalah dengan China (yang berada di tempat ke-109 sedangkan Malaysia berada di tempat ke-21 dengan jumlah kes terkumpul tertinggi di dunia);

– kita kalah dengan Indonesia dari segi kes baharu (Indonesia mencatatkan 1,932 kes manakala Malaysia mencatatkan 14,345 kes semalam) dan juga kes kematian harian akibat Covid-19 (Indonesia mencatatkan 166 kematian berbanding dengan 301 kematian di Malaysia);

– kita kalah dengan lebih banyak kematian akibat Covid-19 berbanding dengan India semalam (262 kematian di India, 301 kematian di Malaysia).

Pakatan Harapan bersetuju untuk menandatangani MOU CSR ini bukan kerana kita mahu mengelakkan Ismail Sabri daripada menjadi Perdana Menteri 30 Hari — kerana perkara ini bukanlah satu kemungkinan untuk kita dan Anwar Ibrahim juga tidak mempunyai sokongan majoriti di Parlimen untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri — tetapi untuk memimpin Malaysia dalam melaksanakan gencatan dan moratorium politik supaya kita dapat tumpukan semua usaha kita kepada melawan Covid-19 dan menetapkan semula negara kita ke arah menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia dengan melaksanakan reformasi parlimen dan institusi negara.

Kerana inilah kita perlu menjelaskan mengapa MOU CSR ini dipersetujui kepada semua rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum, agama, kawasan atau latar belakang politik.

Sekiranya MOU CSR ini gagal, ia tidak boleh gagal kerana kegagalan parti-parti dan para pemimpin PH untuk memenuhi komitmen mereka, sebaliknya kerana kegagalan Ismail Sabri untuk membentuk suatu konsensus untuk menjayakan MOU CSR ini.

Kejadian buruk di Parlimen di mana seorang Menteri Kanan menyekat Yang di Pertua Dewan Rakyat, Azhar Azizan Harun, daripada menjemput Ahli Parlimen DAP Teluk Intan, Nga Kor Ming, daripada mempengerusikan persidangan tengahari semalam adalah salah satu contoh kegagalan Ismail Sabri untuk membentuk konsensus yang selari dengan memorandum persefahaman ini dalam Kabinet beliau.

(Ucapan Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang kepada Pemimpin DAP di Negeri-negeri Utara dan Pantai Timur pada hari Isnin, 20 September 2021 pada jam 9:30 malam)

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Why Indonesia can reduce  its daily new Covid-19 cases by over 96% in two months from 56,757 cases on 15th July to 1,932 cases yesterday, but Malaysia cannot do the same?

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This is one of the many questions which the new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, should answer- Why Indonesia can reduce its daily new Covid-19 cases by over 96% in two months, from 56,757 cases on 15th July to 1,932 cases yesterday, Malaysia cannot do the same?

On 15th July, Malaysia’s daily new Covid-19 cases was registered as 13,215 cases. For the last two months, far from reducing the daily new Covid-19 caseload by over 96% – which means Malaysia returning to triple-digit numbers of less than 528 daily new Covid-19 cases – daily new Covid-19 cases had never gone below 14,000 cases.

Yesterday’s new daily Covid-19 cases in Malaysia of 14,345 cases was in fact the lowest recorded since 26th July when daily new Covid-19 cases for Malaysia were recorded as 14,516 cases. We have still to go below 13,215 cases registered on 15th July while Indonesia has reduced its daily new Covid-19 caseload by over 96%!

Khairy should not avoid these questions, as they are going to follow him in the next few weeks.

When will Malaysia’s daily new Covid19 cases (i) fall below 10,000 cases ; (ii) fall below 1,000 cases and Malaysia return to the three-digit daily increase of new cases; (iii) when Malaysia will return to double-digit daily increase of new Covid-18 cases?

Has Khairy any answer to these three questions?

Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 deaths are still abnormally high yesterday (the fourth week of Khairy’s new role as Health Minister) with 92 Brought-In-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths.

Khairy should explain why he had so far failed to reduce the BID Covid-19 deaths, as the number of BID death cases in his three weeks as Health Minister is very much more than the last three weeks of the previous Minister of Health.

Furthermore, Khairy should also explain why Malaysia is continuing to overtake countries in cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, instead of losing to more countries – as Malaysia under his stewardship as Health Minister will overtake three other countries by the end of this week and be ranked No. 20 among countries in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.

In fact, the BID Covid-18 figures in the last seven dare are about three times the data in the first week of August. Why is this?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 21st September 2021)

Mengapa Indonesia boleh mengurangkan kes harian baharu Covid-19 mereka sebanyak lebih 96% dalam masa dua bulan — dari 56,757 kes pada 15 Julai kepada 1,932 kes semalam, tetapi Malaysia tidak berjaya melakukan perkara yang serupa?

Ini adalah salah satu daripada banyak persoalan yang perlu dijawab oleh Menteri Kesihatan baharu, Khairy Jamaluddin — mengapa Indonesia boleh mengurangkan kes harian baharu Covid-19 sebanyak lebih 96% dalam masa dua bulan — dari 56,757 kes pada 15 Julai kepada 1,932 kes semalam, tetapi Malaysia tidak dapat melakukan perkara yang sama?

Pada 15 Julai, kes harian baharu Covid-19 di Malaysia adalah sebanyak 13,215 kes. Sepanjang dua bulan lalu, daripada mengurangkan jumlah kes harian baharu Covid-19 sebanyak lebih 96% seperti Indonesia — bermakna Malaysia kembali mencatatkan kes dalam lingkungan julat tiga angka dengan 528 kes baharu — sebaliknya, kes harian baharu Covid-19 di negara ini tidak pernah turun ke bawah paras 14,000 kes.

Semalam, kes harian baharu di Malaysia adalah sebanyak 14,345, jumlah terendah yang direkodkan sejak 26 Julai (14,516 kes). Kita mencatatkan 13,215 kes jangkitan baharu pada 15 Julai sedangkan Indonesia telah mengurangkan kes harian baharu Covid-19 mereka sebanyak lebih 96%!

Khairy tidak seharusnya mengelak untuk menjawab persoalan-persoalan ini, kerana ia akan menghantui beliau untuk tempoh beberapa minggu akan datang.

Bilakah kes harian baharu Covid-19 di Malaysia (i) akan turun ke bawah paras 10,000 kes; (ii) turun ke bawah paras 1,000 kes dan Malaysia kembali mencatatkan jumlah kes tiga angka; (iii) bilakah Malaysia akan kembali mencatatkan jumlah kes dua angka?

Sudahkan Khairy menjawab ketiga-tiga persoalan ini?

Jumlah kes kematian akibat Covid-19 yang dicatatkan di negara ini semalam masih tinggi (minggu keempat Khairy memegang jawatan Menteri Kesihatan) dengan 92 daripadanya adalah kes kematian akibat Covid-19 yang dibawa ke hospital (BID).

Khairy harus menjelaskan mengapa beliau setakat ini masih gagal mengurangkan angka kes BID, kerana jumlah kes BID dalam tempoh tiga minggu beliau menjadi Menteri Kesihatan jauh lebih tinggi berbanding tempoh tiga minggu terakhir Menteri Kesihatan sebelumnya.

Tambahan lagi, Khairy juga harus menjelaskan mengapa Malaysia terus mengatasi banyak negara dengan jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 tertinggi, dan tidak menunjukkan prestasi yang lebih baik — kerana Malaysia di bawah pengawasannya sebagai Menteri Kesihatan bakal mengatasi tiga negara lain pada akhir minggu ini dan berada di kedudukan ke-20 dengan jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 tertinggi di dunia.

Malah, jumlah kes BID sepanjang tujuh hari yang lalu adalah tiga kali ganda lebih tinggi berbanding jumlah kes yang direkodkan pada minggu pertama bulan Ogos. Mengapa perkara ini berlaku?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 21 September 2021)

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Great reservations that Muhyiddin, the person responsible for the  losing war against the Covid-19 pandemic and millions of Covid-19 cases and tens of thousands of Covid-19 deaths is  Chairman of National Recovery Council

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I have grave reservations that Muhyiddin Yassin, the person responsible for the losing war against the Covid-19 pandemic and the millions of Covid-19 cases and tens of thousands of Coivid-19 deaths is Chairman of the National Recovery Council.

Muhyiddin said yesterday that he has been given the same amount of authority as when he was Prime Minster to make decisions for the National Recovery Plan (NRP) except when it involves money.

When Muhyiddin became Prime Minister on March 1, 2020, there were 29 Covid-19 cases and zero Covid-19 deaths. When he resigned as Prime Minister 17 months and 16 days later on August 16, 2021, there were a cumulative total of 1,424,639 Covid-19 cases and 12,780 Covid-19 deaths.

Now, there are 2,121,934 Covid-19 cases and 24,078 Covid-19 deaths.

When Malaysia celebrated the 63rd National Day on August 31, 2020, Malaysia was ranked No. 89 among nations in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.

We are likely to overtake Peru on Thursday and be ranked No. 20 among nations in the world for the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.

If there is any one person who must assume responsibility for Malaysia becoming one of the worst performing nations in the world in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, that one person is Muhyiddin Yassin and nobody else.

We are now told that under Muhyddin’s premiership, there had been under-reporting of the Covid-19 deaths and that there is a huge backlog of corpses in the government hospitals awaiting analysis and post-mortems.

Even up to now, after one month of the change of Health Minister, the Ministry of Health is still unable to clear the backlog of Covid-19 deaths in the hospital morgues.

I have asked the new Minister of Health, Khairy Jamaluddin, to make a Ministerial statement in Parliament on the true position of Covid-19 deaths and the Brought-in-Dead Covid-19 death cases, but they had fallen on deaf ears.

Yesterday, more than a month after the change of Health Minister, there were 334 deaths including 84 BIDs – placing Malaysia as the world’s Top No.6th country among nations in the world for daily Covid-19 deaths

Why is Khairy refusing to give a full disclosure about the true position of Covid-19 deaths in the country?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021)

Saya mempunyai keraguan terhadap Muhyiddin, individu yang bertanggungjawab menyebabkan kekalahan kita dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19, membawa kepada berjuta kes dan berpuluh ribu kematian akibat Covid-19 yang kini menjadi pengerusi Majlis Pemulihan Negara

Saya mempunyai keraguan besar terhadap perkara di mana Muhyiddin Yassin, individu yang bertanggungjawab menyebabkan kekalahan kita dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19, membawa kepada berjuta kes dan berpuluh ribu kematian akibat Covid-19 yang kini menjadi pengerusi Majlis Pemulihan Negara.

Muhyiddin telah katakan semalam yang beliau telah diberikan kuasa yang sama seperti semasa beliau menjadi Perdana Menteri untuk membuat keputusan mengenai Pelan Pemulihan Negara (PPN) kecuali apabila ia melibatkan wang.

Semasa Muhyiddin menjadi Perdana Menteri pada 1 Mac 2020, kita mencatatkan 29 kes Covid-19 dengan sifar kematian. Apabila beliau meletakkan jawatan 17 bulan 16 hari kemudiannya pada 16 Ogos 2021, terdapat sejumlah 1,424,639 kes dan 12,780 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Kini, ada 2,121,934 kes dan 24,078 kematian akibat Covid-19 dalam negara.

Semasa Malaysia menyambut Hari Kebangsaan ke-63 pada 31 Ogos 2020, kita berada di tempat ke-89 dari jumlah kes terkumpul berbanding dengan negara lain di dunia.

Kita berkemungkinan akan mengatasi kedudukan Peru pada hari Khamis ini dan berada di tempat ke-20.

Sekiranya ada sekurang-kurangnya satu individu yang perlu bertanggungjawab mengenai perkara ini, di mana Malaysia menjadi antara negara yang mencatatkan prestasi terburuk di dunia dalam melawan Covid-19, individu tersebut adalah Muhyiddin Yassin.

Kita sekarang dimaklumkan bahawa di bawah pentadbiran Muhyiddin Yassin, terdapat kejadian kurang lapor kematian akibat Covid-19 dan terdapat kes terkumpul (backlog) jenazah di hospital kerajaan yang menanti analisis dan pembedahan post-mortem.

Sehingga hari ini, selepas sebulan bertukar Menteri Kesihatan, Kementerian Kesihatan masih belum dapat menghabiskan backlog di hospital kerajaan ini.

Saya telah meminta Menteri Kesihatan baharu, Khairy Jamaluddin, untuk membuat kenyataan menteri di Parlimen mengenai kedudukan sebenar kadar kematian akibat Covid-19 dan kematian dibawa ke hospital (BID) tetapi seruan ini tidak diendahkan.

Semalam, selepas lebih daripada sebulan kita bertukar Menteri Kesihatan, terdapat 334 kematian akibat Covid-19 termasuklah 84 kes BID — meletakkan negara kita di tempat ke-6 di dunia dengan kadar kematian harian tertinggi.

Mengapakah Khairy enggan untuk memberikan penjelasan penuh mengenai kedudukan sebenar kematian akibat Covid-19 di negara kita ini?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 22 September 2021)

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Parliamentary Committee of Privileges should probe  whether a senior Minister had blocked MP for Teluk Intan from presiding over the afternoon session of Monday’s parliamentary meeting

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.

Yesterday, 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 matter should not be allowed to rest without a clear-cut answer.

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.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Wednesday, 22nd September 2021)

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DAP will go all out to  co-operate to ensure that Malaysia  wins  the war against Covid-19 pandemic but we will  be unsparing in our criticisms when things go wrong

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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.

According to the Worldometer website, we have beaten all the major nations in the world whether China, India, Russia, Japan, United States, United Kingdom, Indonesia or Australia in the category “Deaths in the last seven days per 1 million population” and the only states worse than Malaysia are some of the mini-states and small island nations having population of less than three million people.

We have registered over two million Covid-19 cases in the last 21 months and reaching 25,000 Covid-19 deaths, including some 5,000 Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths – a shocking number when we think of Malaysia in terms of our population.

Can we imagine of the mammoth tragedy, devastation and sorrow the Covid-19 pandemic has caused Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics?

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.

In fact, the Covid-19 pandemic has become a test whether we can unite as Malaysians to fight the common but invisible enemy.

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 the 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!

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a zoom meeting of DAP leaders in Perak on Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 10 pm)

DAP akan memberikan kerjasama sepenuhnya untuk memastikan Malaysia menang dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19, namun kami akan tetap memberikan kritikan apabila ada kesalahan

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.

Menurut laman web Worldometer, kita telah menewaskan semua negara-negara besar dunia, tidak kira China, India, Rusia, Jepun, Amerika Syarikat, United Kingdom, Indonesia atau Australia dalam kategori “kes kematian per sejuta penduduk sepanjang tujuh hari lalu” dan hanya tewas kepada negara-negara kecil dan negara-negara pulau yang rata-ratanya mempunyai jumlah penduduk sekitar kurang dari tiga juta orang.

Kita telah merekodkan lebih dua juta kes Covid-19 sepanjang 21 bulan yang lalu dan mengumpulkan hampir 25,000 kematian akibat wabak itu, termasuk kira-kira 5,000 kematian akibat Covid-19 yang dibawa ke hospital (BID) — angka yang luar biasa mengambil kira jumlah penduduk di negara kita.

Bolehkah kita bayangkan tragedi, kemusnahan dan kesedihan yang dialami rakyat Malaysia tanpa mengira kaum, agama, kawasan atau latar belakang politik akibat daripada penularan Covid-19 yang berpanjangan?

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.

Malah, wabak Covid-19 juga sebenarnya telah menjadi semacam suatu ujian kepada kita; sama ada kita mampu untuk bersatu sebagai rakyat Malaysia bagi melawan musuh bersama ini.

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!

(Ucapan oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang dalam mesyuarat Zoom bersama pemimpin DAP Perak pada hari Rabu, 22 September 2021, jam 10 malam)

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