Call on the people of Malacca to use the Malacca general election on Saturday to launch a “Centennial Save Malaysia Campaign“ for Malaysia to stop the regression of past half-a-century and to become a world-class great nation by 2057

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Thirty-seven years ago in 1984, the UMNO Malacca State Government wanted to demolish Bukit China with 12,500 graves of various communities – mostly

Chinese but there are also Malay and Portuguese graves – for commercial development to build shopping complexes and condominiums.

DAP launched a “Save Bukit China campaign” and united not only the people of Malacca, of also of Malaysia, comprising all races and religions, to preserve the Bukit China cemetery hill as a Malaysian national heritage site.

The campaign started on a pessimistic note, as there were many naysayers who said that the campaign was bound to fail as it was not possible to stop the Malacca State Government which had announced its plan to demolish Bukit China to give way to commercial development.

We organised ceramahs not only in Malacca, but throughout the country to explain the aims of the “Save Bukit China campaign” and we organised many functions throughout the country to explain the injustice of the Malacca State Government to demolish the 400-year old cemetery hill.

Many who joined the “Save Bukit China campaign” were harassed and intimidated, and even arrested and charged in court, but eventually, the unity of the people was too mighty even for the Malacca State Government to ignore and the Bukit China cemetery hill stands today as a symbol of what could be achieved if the people are united behind an issue.

Today, we face a bigger crisis.

On Saturday, the Malacca voters go to the polls in the Malacca general election which will have far-reaching implications and consequences for the future of politics and nation-building in Malaysia.

I understand the disappointment, hopelessness and even desolation felt by many in the land that the Pakatan Harapan had not introduced many institutional and structural reforms and changes in Malaysia.

But they forget that Pakatan Harapan Government had only 22 months although it had a mandate to govern for five years before it was robbed by the Sheraton Move conspiracy which ushered in two backdoor, illegitimate and undemocratic governments under two Prime Ministers, Muhyiddin Yassin and Ismail Sabri.

I myself am not happy with the rate of institutional reforms and changes under the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government, and if this rate had continued after the mid-term of Pakatan Harapan government at the end of 2020, I would have done my best to ensure that the Pakatan Harapan government did its utmost to implement the institutional reforms and changes promised in the Pakatan Harapan general election manifesto.

In fact, I already had a meeting with the then Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad to express my concerns about the tardiness of Pakatan Harapan to implement the general election pledges, but before more could be done, the PH was toppled by the Sheraton Move conspiracy in February 2020.

In the last few days, we have the revelation and confession from Muhyiddin that he had been opposing institutional reforms promised during the general election, vindicating my statement to our Gadek candidate, Saminathan Ganesan, that if he had not been released from the trumped-up charges of terrorist connection with the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers, he was likely to be incarcerated for quite some time after the Sheraton Move conspiracy in February 2020.

But one fact is undeniable. Malaysia had not lived up to its promise to be a world-class great nation as Malaysia had been overtaken by one country after another in the past half-century – Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam.

The 22-month Covid-19 pandemic has exposed an unpleasant reality – we are even losing out to Indonesia which is fast closing the development gap between the two countries.

If Malaysia does not wake up and bestir itself to greater accomplishments, in a decade or two, young Malaysians will be going to Indonesia to find work instead of the other way around.

I therefore call on the voters of Malacca, on the occasion of the 37th anniversary of the Save Bukit China Campaign, to use the Malacca general election on Saturday to launch a “Centennial Save Malaysia Campaign“ for Malaysia to stop the regression of the past half-a-century and to become a world-class great nation by 2057.

Malaysia cannot become a world-class great nation in a year or two, or even in a decade or two. It is going to be a great challenge for Malaysia to become a world-class great nation in 36 years’ time in 2057.

This is not going to be an easy challenge, but with the success and in the spirit of “Save Bukit China” which could mobilise and unite the diverse peoples in Malacca and Malaysia for a common mission, I belive that this not an impossible mission.

I do not hide my worry that the voting turnout on Saturday for the Malacca general election may be a historic low, which will be a bad sign for the “Centennial Save Malaysia Campaign” to become a world-class great nation by 2057.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the voting turnout in Jordan was 30% and in Algeroa 29%.

Let the people of Malacca shock Malaysians on Saturday by producing over 70% or even over 80% voting turnout – which will be a wonderful start to the Centennial Save Malaysia 2057 Campaign to become a world-class great nation.

I will not be around in 2057 to see whether Centennial Malaysia 2057 succeeds in becoming a world-class great nation, but we should start this campaign atop the Bukit China hill, among the remains of our ancestors, where we can not only look back at Malacca’s 600-year past history but dare to look into the 100-year future to pursue the Malaysian Dream.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang on top of Bukit China, Malacca leading DAP candidates in the Malacca general election to commemorate 37-year successful “Save Bukit China campaign” on Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 8 a.m)

Seruan kepada rakyat Melaka untuk menggunakan pilihan raya negeri Melaka pada Sabtu bagi melancarkan “Kempen Selamatkan Malaysia” supaya Malaysia dapat menghentikan kemerosotan yang dialami sepanjang separuh kurun yang lalu dan menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia menjelang 2057

37 tahun lalu pada 1984, Kerajaan Negeri Melaka yang dikuasai UMNO mahu memusnahkan Bukit Cina yang menempatkan 12,500 kubur pelbagai masyarakat — kebanyakannya orang Cina tetapi terdapat juga kubur orang Melayu dan Portugis — untuk tujuan pembangunan komersial bagi membina kondominium dan kompleks membeli belah.

DAP melancarkan “kempen Selamatkan Bukit Cina” dan menyatukan bukan sahaja orang Melaka, malah rakyat Malaysia, terdiri daripada pelbagai latar kaum dan agama, untuk memelihara Bukit Cina kerana ia adalah sebuah tapak warisan nasional rakyat Malaysia.

Kempen berkenaan pada awalnya disambut dengan nada pesimistik, kerana ramai yang beranggapan kempen berkenaan akan gagal karena ramai yang beranggap mustahil untuk menghalang Kerajaan Negeri Melaka daripada meneruskan rancangannya untuk memusnahkan Bukit Cina bagi memberi laluan kepada pembangunan pusat komersial di situ.

Kami menganjurkan ceramah bukan sahaja di Melaka, tetapi di seluruh negara untuk menjelaskan tujuan dan matlamat “kempen Selamatkan Bukit Cina” dan kami menganjurkan pelbagai acara di seluruh negara untuk menjelaskan ketidakadilan Kerajaan Negeri Melaka yang mahu memusnahkah tapak perkuburan yang berusia 400 tahun itu.

Ramai antara mereka yang menyertai “kempen Selamatkan Bukit Cina” telah diganggu, dan mereka malah ditahan dan dihadapkan ke mahkamah, bagaimanapun, berkat kesatuan rakyat, tapak perkuburan Bukit Cina kekal sehingga ke hari ini, sekali gus menjadi simbol: apa jua mampu dicapai jika rakyat bersatu untuk menegakkan satu-satu isu.

Hari ini, kita berdepan krisis yang lebih besar.

Pada Sabtu, pengundi Melaka akan memilih dalam pilihan raya negeri Melaka yang mana akan memberikan implikasi dan kesan yang besar terhadap masa depan politik dan pembinaan negara bangsa Malaysia.

Saya faham akan kekecewaan dan putus asa yang dirasai ramai berikutan Pakatan Harapan tidak melaksanakan banyak reformasi dan perubahan struktural institusi di Malaysia.

Namun, mereka lupa Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan hanya memerintah selama 22 bulan meskipun ia diberikan mandat untuk mentadbir selama lima tahun sebelum mandat itu dirampas oleh konspirasi Langkah Sheraton yang membawa masuk dua kerajaan pintu belakang, tidak sah dan tidak demokratik yang dipimpin dua Perdana Menteri, Muhyiddin Yassin dan Ismail Sabri.

Saya sendiri tidak gembira dengan kadar kemajuan keseluruhan agenda perubahan dan reformasi institusi sepanjang kerajaan Pakatan Harapan mentadbir selama 22 bulan, dan jika kadar ini berterusan selepas setengah penggal kerajaan Pakatan Harapan mentadbir pada penghujung 2020, saya akan melakukan yang terbaik untuk memastikan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan melakukan sehabis baik untuk melaksanakan perubahan dan reformasi institusi yang telah dijanjikan dalam manifesto Pakatan Harapan untuk pilihan raya umum lalu.

Malah sebenarnya, saya telah mengadakan pertemuan Perdana Menteri ketika itu, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad bagi menyatakan kebimbangan saya tentang kelewatan Pakatan Harapan dalam menunaikan janji-janji pilihan raya umum, namun sebelum ia dapat dilaksanakan, PH telah ditumbangkan oleh konspirasi Langkah Sheraton pada Februari 2020.

Dalam beberapa hari lalu, kita telah disajikan dengan pendedahan dan pengakuan daripada Muhyiddin bahawa beliau telah melakukan tindakan yang tidak selari dengan reformasi institusi yang dijanjikan semasa pilihan raya umum, menunjukkan bahawa kenyataan saya berkenaan calon Gadek, Saminathan Ganesan sebelum ini adalah benar, bahawa jika beliau tidak dibebaskan dibebaskan atas tuduhan tuduhan dibuat-buat berkaitan dengan Tamil Tigers mungkin beliau akan ditahan untuk masa yang lama.

Namun ada satu fakta yang tidak boleh disangkal, Malaysia tidak dapat mencapai status negara hebat bertaraf dunia kerana kini kita telah dipintas oleh banyak negara sejak separuh kurun yang lalu — sekadar menyebut negara seperti Taiwan, Korea Selatan, Singapura dan Vietnam.

Wabak Covid-19 yang berlarutan selama 22 bulan telah mempersembahkan kita dengan realiti yang tidak menyenangkan — kita tewas kepada Indonesia yang semakin merapatkan jurang pembangunan antara kedua-dua negara.

Jika Malaysia tidak bangkit dan memajukan dirinya untuk mengapai pencapaian yang lebih bear, dalam tempoh sedekad dua ini, anak muda Malaysia akan terpaksa berhijrah ke Indonesia untuk mencari rezeki.

Saya justeru menggesa pengundi Melaka, sempena ulang tahun ke-37 Kempen Selamatkan Bukit Cina, untuk menggunakan peluang pilihan raya negeri Melaka pada Sabtu ini, untuk melancarkan “Kempen Selamatkan Malaysia” untuk Malaysia menghentikan kemerosotan sejak separuh dekad yang lalu dan menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia menjelang 2057.

Malaysia tidak akan mampu menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia dalam tempoh setahun atau dua, atau dalam masa sedekad dua. Malaysia perlu menempuh onak dan duri sepanjang 36 tahun demi menjadi negara hebat bertaraf antarabangsa menjelang 2057.

Ini sesuatu yang sukar, namun dengan kejayaan dan semangat “Selamatkan Bukit Cina” yang dilihat mampu menggerakkan dan menyatukan rakyat dengan pelbagai latar belakang di Melaka dan Malaysia secara keseluruhannya demi mencapai matlamat bersama, saya yakin ia tidak mustahil untuk dicapai.

Saya tidak akan menyembunyikan kebimbangan saya tentang kemungkinan peratusan keluar mengundi yang rendah pada Sabtu ini, yang dilihat sebagai petanda buruk terhadap “Kempen Selamatkan Malaysia” untuk menjadi negara ini negara hebat bertaraf dunia menjelang 2057.

Sepanjang wabak Covid-19 melanda, jumlah peratusan mengundi di Jordan turun mendadak kepada 30%, sementara di Algeria 29%.

Saya berharap rakyat Melaka mampu memberikan kejutan kepada rakyat Malaysia secara keseluruhannya pada Sabtu ini dengan beramai-ramai keluar mengundi — mencapai 70% atau lebih 80% peratusan keluar mengundi — yang mana mampu memberikan permulaan yang kencang buat Kempen Selamatkan Malaysia 2057 untuk menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia.

Saya mungkin sudah tiada pada 2057 untuk menyaksikan sama ada kempen ini berjaya, tetapi kita harus memulakan kempen ini di atas puncak Bukit Cina, bersama-sama semangat nenek moyang kita, di mana kita bukan sahaja merenung semula kegemilangan yang dinikmati Melaka pada 600 tahun dahulu, malah berani untuk memandang seratus tahun ke hadapan bagi merealisasikan matlamat Impian Malaysia.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di atas puncak Bukit Cina, Melaka bersama-sama calon-calon DAP untuk pilihan raya negeri Melaka bagi mengenang kejayaan “Kempen Selamatkan Bukit Cina” yang dikecapi pada 37 tahun lalu pada Rabu, 17 November 2021, 8 pagi)

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Does Ismail Sabri’s “Keluarga Malaysia” includes a ban of gambling and liquor in Malaysia and withdrawal of support for the five Rukun Negara nation-building principles?

(Versi BM)

I have said that Ismail Sabri, the ninth Prime Minister of Malaysia, is the weakest Prime Minister in Malaysian history, and this is confirmed by Kedah Mentri Besar’s action banning gambling in Kedah.

Ismail Sabri should clarify whether his “Keluarga Malaysia” includes a ban on gambling and liquor in Malaysia and the withdrawal of support for the five Rukun Negara nation-building principles of belief in God, loyalty to King and country, supremacy of the Constitution, the rule of law and courtesy and morality.

Ismail Sabri should explain why he had not informed Parliament that his government and Cabinet do not support the five Rukun Negara nation-building principles for a plural Malaysia.

It is unbelievable that a Prime Minister from UMNO is repudiating one of the greatest achievements of the second Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Razak, in formulating the five nation-building principles for a plural Malaysia.

Indonesia also has Pancasila, the five principles of the Indonesian philosophy of nation-building, viz: belief in God, Just and Civilized Humanity, Unity of Indonesia, Democracy from the deliberation of elected representatives and social justice for all in Indonesia.

Indonesia is catching up with Malaysia because no Indonesian President has repudiated the Pancasila.

Is Ismail going to bungle along and allow his Ministers and coalition partners to repudiate the Rukun Negara?

Yesterday, together with the DAP MP for Damansara Tony Pua and DAP candidate for Duyong, Damien Yeo, I revisited the Hang Tuah well.

At the historic site, which highlights Hang Tuah’s strength of character, I was reminded that Malacca, which achieved a high quality of civilization five hundreds years ago, fell because of corruption, and wondered whether there is going to be a fall of Malaysia and a second fall of Malacca again because of corruption in allowing the return of creeping kleptocracy.

The UMNO Deputy President, Mohamad Hasan, is confident that UMNO can win 18 of the 28 seats UMNO is contesting Malacca – which means UMNO will form the next Malacca State Government.

The person who was responsible for Malaysia becoming a kleptocracy is playing the leading role in the UMNO campaign in the Malacca state general election. What does this imply?

I do not think anyone will disagree when I say that the Transparency International’s report of next year’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) is going to be a bad one for Malaysia, showing that we are sliding in corruption.

This is before the Malacca general election.

Are we heading for more rampant corruption in Malacca and Malaysia?

Are all our efforts to save Malaysia from kleptocrfacy in the 14th General Election in 2018 going to be in vain?

These will be among the issues that will be decided on Saturday.

(Seventh article in eight-part series by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang on “My Years in Malacca” on Wednesday, 17th November 2021)

Adakah larangan terhadap perjudian dan penjualan arak serta penarikan semula sokongan terhadap Rukun Negara ini sebahagian daripada “Keluarga Malaysia” Ismail Sabri?

Saya telah katakan yang Ismail Sabri, Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang kesembilan ini adalah Perdana Menteri yang paling lemah dalam sejarah negara, perkara ini telah disahkan dengan tindakan Menteri Besar Kedah yang melarang aktiviti perjudian di Kedah.

Ismail Sabri perlu menjelaskan samada larangan terhadap perjudian dan penjualan arak serta penarikan semula sokongan terhadap Rukun Negara — kepercayaan kepada Tuhan, kesetiaan kepada Raja dan Negara, keluhuran Perlembagaan, kedaulatan undang-undang, dan kesopanan dan kesusilaan — ini sebahagian daripada “Keluarga Malaysia” Ismail Sabri?

Ismail Sabri perlu menjelaskan mengapa beliau masih belum memaklumkan kepada Parlimen yang kerajaan dan Kabinet beliau tidak menyokong kelima-lima prinsip pembinaan negara bangsa dalam Rukun Negara yang berteraskan Malaysia yang majmuk.

Sukar untuk dipercayai yang seorang Perdana Menteri daripada UMNO sendiri kini menolak salah satu pencapaian terhebat Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang kedua, Tun Razak, dalam merangka kelima-lima prinsip untuk membina Malaysia yang majmuk.

Indonesia juga mempunyai Pancasila, lima prinsip yang menjadi falsafah pembangunan negara bangsa Indonesia, iaitu: Kepercayaan kepada Tuhan, Kemanusiaan yang adil dan beradab, Penyatuan Indonesia, Demokrasi berteraskan pertimbangan dan musyawarah wakil rakyat, dan Keadilan sosial bagi seluruh rakyat Indonesia.

Indonesia kini sedang mengejar Malaysia, kerana tiada seorang pun Presiden Indonesia yang menolak Pancasila ini.

Adakah Ismail akan terus silap dan membiarkan Menteri-menteri dan rakan gabungan beliau untuk terus menolak Rukun Negara?

Semalam, bersama dengan MP DAP Damansara, Tony Pua dan calon DAP untuk Duyong, Damien Yeo, saya melawat semula telaga Hang Tuah.

Di tapak bersejarah tersebut, yang menunjukkan kekuatan sifat Hang Tuah, saya teringat yang Melaka yang telah mencapai tahap ketamadunan tinggi lima ratus tahun lepas, tumbang kerana rasuah, dan terfikir sama ada suatu hari nanti, akan terjadi pula kejatuhan Malaysia dan berulangnya kejatuhan Melaka buat kali kedua akibat rasuah kerana kita membenarkan kleptokrasi untuk kembali.

Timbalan Presiden UMNO, Mohamad Hasan, yakin yang UMNO boleh memenangi 18 daripada 28 kerusi yang ditandingi di Melaka — yang bermakna UMNO akan membentuk kerajaan negeri Melaka yang akan datang.

Orang yang bertanggungjawab menjadikan Malaysia sebuah kleptokrasi kini sedang memainkan peranan utama berkempen untuk UMNO dalam PRN melaka ini. Apakah maksud perkara ini?

Saya tidak rasa ada sesiapa yang tidak setuju apabila saya katakan yang laporan Indeks Persepsi Rasuah Transparency International tahun hadapan akan menjadi satu laporan yang buruk untuk Malaysia, menunjukkan kejatuhan anak tangga akibat rasuah.

Semua ini berlaku sebelum PRN Melaka.

Adakah kita akan melihat rasuah yang lebih berleluasa di Melaka dan Malaysia?

Adakah semua usaha kita untuk menyelamatkan Malaysia daripada kleptokrasi dalam PRU 14 pada tahun 2018 ini sia-sia?

Inilah antara isu yang akan ditentukan pada hari Sabtu ini.

(Artikel ketujuh daripada lapan artikel oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang tentang “Tahun-tahun saya di Melaka” dikeluarkan pada hari Rabu, 17 November 2021)

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Will Malacca general election polling day on Saturday 20th November see daily new Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia return to pre-emergency days of January 11, 2021 of less than 2,232 cases and four deaths or will it have more Covid-19 cases and deaths than Nomination Day on 8th November?

(Versi BM)

In another three days is the Malacca general election – a general election which the DAP and the Pakatan Harapan do not want but will have far-reaching implications and consequences for the political future not only Malacca, but of Malaysia.

One question Malaysians want to know is whether the Malacca general election on Polling Day on Saturday, 20th November 2021 will see daily new Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths return to the pre-emergency days on January 11, 2021 of less than 2,232 cases and four deaths or will there be more daily Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths than Nomination Day on 8th November?

From the following Covid-19 pandemic statistics for daily new Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths, it is impossible that the Polling Day on 20th November will see Malaysia return to pre-Emergency Days of January 11, 2021 of less than 2,232 cases and four Covid-19 deaths:

Date

Daily new Covid-19 cases

Daily Covid-19 deaths

8.11.2021

4,543

58

9.11.2021

5,403

78

10.11.2021

6,243

59

11.11.2021

6,323

49

12.11.2021

6,517

41

13.11.2021

5,809

55

14.11.2021

5,162

45

15.11.2021

5,143

53

16.11.2021

5,413

40

In fact, Malaysia will have more daily new Covid-19 cases on Polling Day on Saturday than on Nomination Day on November 8 although the daily Covid-19 deaths on Polling Day is likely to be less than Nomination Day.

Malaysia having more daily new Covid-19 cases on Polling Day as compared to Nomination Day represents the failure of the Ismail Sabfi government’s Covid-19 policy and strategy in not being able to move faster to reduce the increase of Covid-19 cases, but having less daily Covid-19 deaths on Polling Day as compared to Nomination Day highlights the importance of the confidence-supply-reform (CSF) memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the Pakatan Harapan leaders and Prime Minister Ismail Sabri on 13 September as the single highest national priority is to save lives and livelihoods and to win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

I am very concerned that we continue to lag behind Indonesia, which has more than eight times the population of Malaysia, in daily new Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths, which is again illustrated by yesterday’s data which showed Indonesia having 347 daily new Covid-19 cases and 15 Covid-19 deaths as compared to 5,412 daily new Covid-19 cases and 40 Covid-19 deaths for Malaysia.

In fact, yesterday we lost out to Philippines which had reduced its daily new Covid-19 cases to triple-digit figure of 849 cases.

I cannot understand why Malaysia is performing so poorly in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic as compared to Indonesia and Philippines.

We are beginning to lose out to India, a country has a population more than 42 times that of Malaysia. On 15th November, India had four-digit increase of daily new Covid-19 cases – less than 4,000 cases compared to Malaysia, when India once had a daily peak of 414,433 Covid-19 new cases on May 6, 2021.

Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Malacca on Wednesday, 17th November 2021

Adakah hari pengundian pilihan raya negeri Melaka pada Sabtu, 20 November akan menyaksikan kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan korban Covid-19 di Malaysia kembali ke masa sebelum darurat diisytiharkan atau adakah ia akan merekodkan jumlah jangkitan dan korban akibat Covid-19 lebih tinggi berbanding pada Hari Pencalonan pada 8 November?

Tiga hari lagi adalah hari pengundian pilihan raya negeri Melaka — pilihan raya yang DAP dan Pakatan Harapan tidak mahu tetapi akan memberikan implikasi dan kesan yang meluas terhadap masa depan politik bukan sahaja di Melaka, malah Malaysia secara keseluruhannya.

Satu soalan yang rakyat Malaysia ingin tahu adalah sama ada Hari Pengundian pilihan raya negeri Melaka pada Sabtu, 20 November akan menyaksikan kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan korban Covid-19 di Malaysia kembali ke masa sebelum darurat diisytiharkan atau adakah ia akan merekodkan jumlah jangkitan dan korban akibat Covid-19 lebih tinggi berbanding pada Hari Pencalonan pada 8 November?

From the following Covid-19 pandemic statistics for daily new Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths, it is impossible that the Polling Day on 20th November will see Malaysia return to pre-Emergency Days of January 11, 2021 of less than 2,232 cases and four Covid-19 deaths:

Daripada statistik wabak Covid-19 berikut untuk kes harian Covid-19 dan korban Covid-19, adalah mustahil bahawa Hari Pengundian pada 20 November ini akan menyaksikan Malaysia kembali ke masa sebelum darurat diisytiharkan pada 11 Januari 2021 dengan kurang 2,232 kes dan empat kematian akibat Covid-19”

Tarikh

Kes Harian Baharu Covid-19

Kematian harian akibat Covid-19

8.11.2021

4,543

58

9.11.2021

5,403

78

10.11.2021

6,243

59

11.11.2021

6,323

49

12.11.2021

6,517

41

13.11.2021

5,809

55

14.11.2021

5,162

45

15.11.2021

5,143

53

16.11.2021

5,413

40

Malah, Malaysia sebenarnya akan mempunyai kes harian baharu Covid-19 yang lebih banyak pada Hari Pengundian pada Sabtu berbanding pada Hari Penamaan Calon pada 8 November meskipun kematian harian Covid-19 pada Hari Pengundian mungkin lebih kurang berbanding Hari Penamaan Calon.

Malaysia mempunyai kes harian baharu Covid-19 yang lebih banyak pada Hari Pengundian berbanding Hari Penamaan Calon menunjukkan kegagalan strategi dan dasar kerajaan Ismail Sabri dalam bertindak pantas untuk mengurangkan lonjakan kes Covid-19, tetapi mempunyai jumlah korban Covid-19 yang lebih rendah pada Hari Pengundian berbanding Hari Penamaan Calon menunjukkan kepentingan Memorandum Persefahaman (MoU) yang ditandatangani antara pemimpin Pakatan Harapan dan Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri pada 13 September kerana keutamaan tunggal negara adalah untuk menyelamatkan nyawa dan mata pencarian dan untuk memenangi perang melawan Covid-19.

Saya amat bimbang apabila kita terus-menerus ketinggalan di belakang Indonesia, yang mempunyai jumlah penduduk lapan kali ganda berbanding Malaysia, dalam kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan korban Covid-19, yang sekali lagi digambarkan menerusi data semalam yang menunjukkan Indonesia mempunyai 347 kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan 15 korban Covid-19 berbanding 5,412 kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan 40 korban Covid-19 untuk Malaysia.

Lebih buruk, semalam kita tewas kepada Filipina yang mengurangkan jumlah kes harian baharu Covid-19 kepada tiga angka iaitu sebanyak 849 kes.

Saya tidak faham mengapa Malaysia menunjukkan prestasi yang buruk dalam perang melawan Covid-19 berbanding Indonesia dan Filipina.

Kita sudah mula tewas kepada India, sebuah negara yang mempunyai jumlah penduduk 42 kali ganda berbanding Malaysia. Pada 15 November, India merekodkan kes harian baharu Covid-19 dalan julat empat angka, sedangkan India pernah mencatatkan kemuncak jumlah kes harian baharu sebanyak 414,433 pada 6 Mei 2021.

Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 17 November 2021

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Call on  Malacca voters to vote against PN and BN candidates because in the last 10 days, Indonesia averages 7.2% of the daily new Covid-19 cases of Malaysia when Indonesia has more than eight times the population of Malaysia

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Yesterday, Malaysia recorded 6,280 daily new Covid-19 cases and 68 Covid-19 deaths, still a great distance from the day Emergency was proclaimed to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, as the daily Covid-19 statistics on January 11, 2021 when emergency was declared were 2,232 daily new Covid-19 cases and four Covid-19 deaths.

This means we have still a long way to go to end the third Covid-19 wave in Malaysia, rampaging for 14 months since September last year – the longest Covid-19 wave in the world since September last year.

Indonesia yesterday recorded 522 daily new Covid-19 cases and 13 Covid-19 deaths, which is almost the number of 12 Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia yesterday.

I call on Malacca voters to vote against Perikatan Nasional (PN) and Barisan Nasional (BN) candidates because of Malaysia’s dismal performance in the Covid-19 pandemic, as in the last 10 days, Indonesia averages 7.2% of the daily new Covid-19 cases of Malaysia when Indonesia has more than eight times the population of Malaysia.

In the last ten days of the Malacca general election campaign, Malaysia had a total of 52,303 Covid-19 cases, as compared to Indonesia’s 3,771 Covid-19 cases or Indonesia had only 7.2% of the total Malaysian Covid-19 cases – with Indonesia having a daily average of 377 cases for the last 10 days as compared to Malaysia’s daily average of 5,230 cases for the last ten days.

I feel ashamed as a Malaysian at Malaysia’s poor performance in the war against Covid-19 pandemic when compared to other countries, like Indonesia, Philippines and even India.

The signing of the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan leaders have ended the crazy upsurge of Covid-19 in Malaysia, but the process of winning the war against the Covid-19 is agonisingly slow – and a vote against PN and BN candidates on Saturday is fully merited.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Malacca on Thursday, 18th November 2021)

Seruan kepada pengundi Melaka untuk menolak calon PN dan BN kerana sepanjang 10 hari yang lepas, purata kes harian baharu Covid-19 di Indonesia adalah bersamaan 7.2% daripada purata kes harian baharu yang direkodkan di Malaysia sedangkan negara jiran itu mempunyai jumlah penduduk lapan kali ganda berbanding Malaysia

Semalam, Malaysia merekodkan 6,280 kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan 68 korban akibat wabak itu — angka yang dilihat begitu tinggi jika dibandingkan dengan jumlah kes jangkitan dan korban yang direkodkan semasa Darurat diisytiharkan — dengan alasan untuk melawan Covid-19 — pada 11 Januari 2021 iaitu sebanyak 2,232 kes dan empat korban.

Ini bermakna, kita masih perlu menempuh perjalanan yang panjang untuk menamatkan gelombang ketiga Covid-19 di Malaysia — yang berlanjut selama 14 bulan sejak September tahun lalu — gelombang Covid-19 yang terpanjang di dunia sejak September tahun lalu.

Semalam, Indonesia merekodkan 522 kes harian baharu Covid-19 dengan 13 korban, yang mana hampir sama dengan jumlah kes kematian yang dibawa ke hospital (BID) yang dicatatkan di Malaysia semalam.

Saya menyeru pengundi Melaka untuk menolak calon Perikatan Nasional (PN) dan Barisan Nasional (BN) atas sebab prestasi buruk Malaysia dalam menangani wabak Covid-19, sepanjang 10 hari lalu, purata kes harian baharu Covid-19 di Indonesia adalah sebanyak 7.2% daripada jumlah purata kes harian baharu yang dicatatkan di Malaysia dalam tempoh yang sama, sedangkan Indonesia mempunyai jumlah penduduk lapan kali ganda berbanding Malaysia.

Sepanjang 10 hari kempen pilihan raya negeri Melaka, Malaysia telah mengumpulkan 52,303 kes jangkitan baharu, berbanding Indonesia sebanyak 3,771 kes atau bersamaan 7.2% daripada jumlah kes Covid-19 yang direkodkan di Malaysia — dengan Indonesia merekodkan purata kes harian sebanyak 377 kes untuk tempoh 10 hari lalu berbanding Malaysia yang merekodkan purata kes harian sebanyak 5,230 kes untuk tempoh yang sama.

Saya berasa malu sebagai seorang rakyat Malaysia apabila melihat prestasi buruk yang ditunjukkan negara dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19 berbanding negara-negara lain seperti Indonesia, Filipina dan malah India.

Pemeteraian memorandum persefahaman (MOU) kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) antara Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri dan pemimpin Pakatan Harapan telah berjaya mengawal lonjakan kes jangkitan Covid-19 di Malaysia, namun proses untuk menang perang melawan wabak Covid-19 bergerak terlalu perlahan — dan atas sebab itu tindakan menolak calon PN dan BN pada Sabtu nanti adalah suatu keputusan yang amat wajar.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Melaka pada hari Khamis, 18 November 2021)

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I have been guided all my life  by Wen Tianxiang’s immortal words “All men are mortal but my loyalty will illuminate the annals of history forever”   and have never compromised my loyalty to Malaysia to make it a world-class great nation

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Two days ago, I visited the Sam Tiong Keng temple in Semabok, Malacca which is in the Banda Hilir state constituency where we are fielding Malacca DAPSY Deputy Chief Leong Chau Yan.

I was in for a surprise as the main historic figure the temple was dedicated to was Wen Tianxiang, the poet-politician of the Southern Song dynasty, who chose death instead of betrayal of his loyalty to Kublai Khan and the Yuan dynasty.

I have been guided all my life by Wen Tianxiang’s immortal words “All men are mortal but my loyalty will illuminate the annals of history forever” and have never compromised my loyalty to Malaysia to make it a world-class great nation.

Wen Tiansiang owed his loyalty to the Song dynasty in China but I owed my loyalty to Malaysia, where I was born, educated and will die in Malaysia.

This was why I came back to Malaysia a week after I was first elected Member of Parliament on Bandar Melaka, although I was advised to stay abroad until the storm of the May 13, 1969 riots blew over because I was on the blacklist to be arrested under the Internal Security Act. But y place was in Malaysia and not elsewhere.

That was why I had three times in my political life proposed a political moratorium as every Malaysian must be Malaysian first, and not Malay first, Chinese first, Indian first, Kadazan first or Iban first.

The first time was during my first Internal Security Act detention when on 5th August 1969, I wrote a letter from the Muar Detention Centre to the then Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman “not as a party politician but as a Malaysian nationalist” and conveyed to him my anxieties for the future of Malaysia.

I said that the result of May 10, 1969 General Election was the people’s verdict for democracy, as against the MCP campaign of boycott of elections. There was joy and expectancy after the results, not to deprive anyone of his or her rights but at the new hope to work for a more just, equal and fulfilling society.

I appealed to Tunku at the moment of the nation’s trial to “rise above party politics and think only of the long-term national interests” and proposed a political moratorium for all political parties.

To ensure communal harmony and goodwill and the development of a Malaysian consciousness and identity transcending racial ties and affinities, I proposed the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry to probe into “the entire gamut of racial problems in Malaysia with the view to seek long-term solutions”.

The second time was one day before my second Internal Security Act detention and I made the proposal in Parliament during the debate on the 1988 Budget on October 26, 1987 – a day before the Operation Lalang mass arrests were launched.

I proposed a one-year moratorium for all political parties where no racial, language, cultural or religious issues would be created or raised for everyone to concentrate on the national priority of achieving economic recovery and growth.

The third time was during the Covid-19 pandemic when on June 17, 2021, I called for a political moratorium where there was only one national priority – to win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic and to ensure that the Covid-19 fatalities did not exceed 5,000 deaths.

From a country which was doing quite well in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, Malaysia had suddenly become one of the world’s top worst performing nations in the Covid-19 pandemic.

When we celebrated our 63rd National Day on August 31, 2020 eight months after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we had cumulative totals of 9,340 Covid-19 cases and 127 Covid-19 deaths.

Now, 14 months later, we have cumulative totals of nearly 2.6 million Covid-19 cases and nearly 30,000 deaths.

This is why we should end the crazy upsurge of Covid-19 cases and deaths, which we have succeeded in doing after the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan, but the decrease of Covid-19 cases and deaths are agonisingly slow, even when compared to nations with larger populations like Indonesia, Philippines, India and China.

Before I visited the Sam Tiong Keng temple, I was at Hang Tuah’s grave with the DAP candidate for Duyong, Damien Yeo.

Malaysians must be inspired by the examples of Wen Tiansiang and Hang Tuah to make Malaysia a world-class great nation.

I always believe that Malaysia, at the confluence of four great human civilisations – Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western – must leverage on the values and virtues of these four great civilisations.

Malaysia is Instant Asia – this should not be just a slogan to attract tourists all over the world to Malaysia but should be the very essence of life in Malaysia.

This is why we have the five Rukun Negara principles of Malaysian nation-building to achieve unity among Malaysians, preserve a democratic way of life to create a just society where the prosperity of the nation can be enjoyed together in a fair and equitable manner, while guaranteeing a liberal approach towards our diverse and rich traditional heritage and forging ahead towards a progressive society that will make use of science and modern technology.

These objectives are crystalised into five nation-building Rukun Negara principles, viz:

1. BELIEF IN GOD

2. LOYALTY TO KING AND COUNTRY

3. SUPREMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION

4. RULE OF LAW

5. COURTESY AND MORALITY

Malaysia’s trouble is that while in the seventies and eighties, the five Rukun Negara nation-building principles are taught to all students and engraved on walls of all schools, universities and important public areas, we have now Cabinet Ministers in the last two “backdoor” and illegitimate governments who do not subscribe or accept all these five nation-building Rukun Negara principles leading to the banning of liquor and gambling in Malaysia.

We must now emulate the example of Wen Tianxiang and Hang Tuah to make Malaysia a world-class great nation.

(Last article in eight-part series by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang on “My Years in Malacca” on Thursday 18th November 2021)

Sepanjang hidup saya dipandu oleh kata-kata Wen Tianxiang, “Semua orang akan mati, tetapi kesetiaan saya akan menerangi catatan sejarah buat selama-lamanya” dan saya tidak pernah berkompromi dengan kesetiaan saya terhadap Malaysia untuk menjadikannya negara hebat berkelas dunia

Dua hari lepas, saya telah melawat Tokong Sam Tiong Keng di Semabok, Melaka, yang berada dalam kerusi DUN Bandar Hilir di mana DAP mencalonkan Timbalan Ketua DAPSY Leong Chau Yan.

Saya sendiri terkejut apabila mendapati tokoh bersejarah tokong ini sendiri adalah Weng Tianxiang, penyair-politik dari Dinasti Song Selatan, yang memilih untuk mati daripada mengkhianati kesetiaan beliau dengan Kublai Khan dan Dinasti Yuan.

Sepanjang hidup saya dipandu oleh kata-kata Wen Tianxiang, “Semua orang akan mati, tetapi kesetiaan saya akan menerangi catatan sejarah buat selama-lamanya” dan saya tidak pernah berkompromi dengan kesetiaan saya terhadap Malaysia untuk menjadikannya negara hebat berkelas dunia.

Wen Tianxiang setia kepada Dinasti Song di China, dan saya pula kekal setia kepada Malaysia, tanah di mana saya lahir, dididik, dan akhirnya akan mati di sini.

Kerana inilah saya kembali ke Malaysia seminggu selepas saya diundi sebagai Ahli Parlimen Bandar Melaka, walaupun saya dinasihati untuk kekal di luar negara sehingga kekecohan akibat rusuhan Mei 13 1969 reda kerana saya berada dalam senarai hitam yang terdiri daripada mereka yang akan ditahan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA). Tetapi, tempat saya adalah di Malaysia, bukan mana-mana tempat lain.

Kerana ini jugalah saya telah tiga kali sepanjang kerjaya politik saya, mencadangkan moratorium politik, memandangkan semua rakyat Malaysia perlulah melihat diri mereka sebagai rakyat Malaysia dahulu, sebelum identiti lain mereka, baik Melayu, Cina, India, Kadazan, atau Iban.

Kali pertama adalah semasa saya ditahan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri apabila pada 5 Ogos 1969, saya tulis sepucuk surat dari Pusat Tahanan Muar kepada Perdana Menteri ketika itu, Tunku Abdul Rahman, “bukan sebagai seorang ahli politik mana-mana parti, tetapi sebagai seorang nasionalis Malaysia” dan menyampaikan kepada beliau, kebimbangan saya terhadap masa hadapan Malaysia.

Saya katakan, keputusan Pilihan Raya Umum 10 Mei 1969 ini menunjukkan pilihan rakyat untuk demokrasi, melawan kempen PKM untuk memboikot pilihan raya. Terdapat kegembiraan dan jangkaan selepas keputusan itu, bukan untuk menafikan sesiapa pun kepada hak-hak mereka, tetapi sebaliknya untuk suatu harapan baharu untuk sebuah masyarakat yang lebih adil, saksama, dan bermakna.

Saya merayu kepada Tunku pada saat cabaran getir negara untuk “bangkit di atas garis politik kepartian dan fikirkan kepentingan jangka panjang negara” dan mencadangkan supaya diadakan satu moratorium politik di antara semua parti politik.

Untuk memastikan terdapatnya keharmonian dan perasan muhibah antara komuniti dan pembangunan kesedaran dan identiti Malaysia yang menjangkaui garisan perkauman dan pertalian, saya mencadangkan penubuhan Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja untuk menyiasat “keseluruhan masalah perkauman di Malaysia untuk mencari penyelesaian jangka masa panjang”.

Kali kedua pula adalah sehari sebelum tahanan ISA kedua saya dan saya buat cadangan ini di Parlimen semasa perbahasan Belanjawan 1988 pada 26 Oktober 1987 — sehari sebelum penangkapan beramai-ramai Operasi Lalang dilancarkan.

Saya cadangkan moratorium politik selama setahun untuk semua parti politik, di mana tidak ada sebarang isu mengenai perkauman, bahasa, budaya, atau agama dibangkitkan untuk membolehkan semua orang menumpukan usaha kepada keutamaan negara untuk mencapai pemulihan dan pertumbuhan ekonomi.

Kali ketiga adalah semasa pandemik Covid-19 di mana pada 17 Jun 2021, saya menyeru supaya moratorium politik dicapai, di mana hanya akan ada satu keutamaan untuk negara — untuk memastikan kita menang perang melawan wabak Covid-19 dan untuk memastikan kematian akibat Covid-19 dalam negara tidak melepasi paras 5,000 kematian.

Daripada sebuah negara yang menunjukkan prestasi yang agak baik dalam perang melawan wabak ini, Malaysia secara tiba-tiba menjadi salah satu negara dengan prestasi terburuk dalam mengendalikan Covid-19.

Semasa kita menyambut Hari Kebangsaan ke-63 pada 31 Ogos 2020, lapan bulan selepas bermulanya penularan wabak ini, kita mencatatkan sejumlah 9,340 kes dengan 127 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Kini, 14 bulan kemudian, kita mencatatkan sejumlah 2.6 juta kes dan hampir 30,000 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Kerana inilah kita perlu menghentikan peningkatan kes dan kematian Covid-19 ini, yang mana kita telah berjaya turunkan selepas memorandum persefahaman (MOU) kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi dimeterai di antara Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri dan Pakatan Harapan. Namun penurunan kes ini masih berada pada tahap yang terlalu perlahan, walaupun jika dibandingkan dengan negara-negara yang lebih besar seperti Indonesia, Filipina, India, dan China.

Sebelum saya melawat Tokong Sam Tiong Keng, saya berada di Telaga Hang Tuah bersama dengan calon DAP untuk Duyong, Damien Yeo.

Rakyat Malaysia perlu mengambil inspirasi daripada tauladan Wen Tianxiang dan Hang Tuan ini, untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia.

Saya sentiasa percaya yang Malaysia ini merupakan titik pertemuan empat tamadun hebat dunia — Melayu/Islam, Cina, India, dan Barat — dan kita perlu manfaatkan nilai-nilai murni empat tamadun hebat ini.

Malah negara kita ini boleh dikira sebagai gambaran menyeluruh Asia, dan perkara ini tidak seharusnya hanya menjadi tarikan pelancong, sebaliknya menjadi asas kehidupan di Malaysia.

Kerana inilah kita ada lima prinsip pembinaan negara bangsa yang termaktub dalam Rukun Negara untuk mencapai perpaduan yang lebih erat dalam kalangan seluruh masyarakatnya, memelihara cara hidup demokratik, mencipta satu masyarakat yang adil di mana kemakmuran negara akan dapat dinikmati secara adil dan saksama, menjamin satu cara liberal terhadap tradisi-tradisi kebudayaannya yang kaya dan berbagai corak, dan membina satu masyarakat progresif yang akan menggunakan sains dan teknologi moden.

Matlamat ini diterapkan dengan lima prinsip pembinaan negara bangsa iaitu:

1. KEPERCAYAAN KEPADA TUHAN

2. KESETIAAN KEPADA RAJA DAN NEGARA

3. KELUHURAN PERLEMBAGAAN

4. KEDAULATAN UNDANG-UNDANG

5. KESOPANAN DAN KESUSILAAN

Masalah yang dihadapi negara kini adalah walaupun pada tahun 70-an dan 80-an kelima-lima prinsip Rukun Negara ini diajarkan kepada para pelajar dan terpahat di dinding-dinding sekolah, universiti, dan tempat-tempat awam yang penting, kita kini mempunyai Menteri Kabinet dalam dua kerajaan “pintu belakang” yang tidak sah ini yang tidak menerima kelima-lima prinsip Rukun Negara ini, membawa kepada tindakan seperti larangan penjualan arak dan perjudian di Malaysia.

Kita perlu contohi tauladan Wen Tianxiang dan Hang Tuah untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia.

(Artikel terakhir daripada lapan artikel oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang tentang “Tahun-tahun saya di Melaka” dikeluarkan pada hari Khamis, 18 November 2021)

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RM100 million housing for Najib must  be voted by Parliament in view of the fact that Najib has become a convict although subject to appeal

There was fireworks in Parliament today over the RM100 million housing for former Prime Minister Najib Razak, who was responsible for turning Malaysia into a kleptocracy with the 1MDB and other scandals.

The Finance Minister, Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz prevaricated over  the issue instead of giving a clear straight-forward answer on the issue.

Are Malaysians going to reward  the Prime Minister who had caused Malaysia to lose tens  and hundreds of billions of ringgit from 1MDB and other scandals with a RM100 million housing?

This is most repulsive and  repugnant to decent Malaysians although it will be a victory to those completely shorn of the moral compass and the most elementary ethical  values.

In view of the public furore over the issue, the RM100 million housing  for Najib must be voted by Parliament in view of the fact that Najib has become a convict although subject to appeal.

When will the allocation for  RM100 million housing for Najib be presented to Parliament for voting?

(Media Comment by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Malacca on Thursday,18th November 2021)

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Call on Malacca voters  to represent Malaysians to vote against PN and BN tomorrow for the loss of nearly 30,000 lives and nearly 2.6 million Covid-19 cases as well as for Malaysia having the longest Covid-19 wave in the world

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Tomorrow is Polling Day for the voters of Malacca for the Malacca general election.

I call on Malacca voters to represent Malaysia to vote against both the Perikatan Nasional (PN) and Barisan Nasional (BN) for the loss of nearly 30,000 lives, nearly 6,000 Brought-in-Dead covid-19 deaths and nearly 2.6 million Covid-19 cases, as well as for Malaysia having the longest Covid-19 wave in the world lasting over 14 months since the Sabah state general in September last year.

They should vote solidly for Pakatan Harapan and for Adly Zahari to be restored his 2018 General Election mandate to be Malacca Chief Minister again.

No Malaysian expected Malaysia to perform so poorly to end up as one of the world’s worst countries in handling the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, Malaysia was praised as a model country in our success in handling Covid-19 pandemic.

Malaysia has even lost out to Indonesia, both in daily new Covid-19 cases for 96 days since August 18, 2021 and daily Covid-19 deaths for 70 days since 9th September 10, 2021 except for a day on 23rd September 2021.

Yesterday, Malaysia recorded 6,380 new Covid-19 cases and 55 Covid-19 deaths while Indonesia recorded 400 new Covid-19 cases and 11 Covid-19 deaths.

In the last 11 days of the Malacca general election campaign, Malaysia had a cumulative total of 58,683 Covid-19 cases while Indonesia had a cumulative total of 4,171 Covid-19 cases – Indonesia having 7.1% of the total Malaysian Covid-19 cases during the period.

In the last 11 days of the Malacca general election, there was only one day (Nomination Day on November 8) when the daily new Covid-19 cases were in four-thousand range, five days in five-thousand range and five days in six-thousand range.

The average daily new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia in the last 11 days was 5,335 cases compared to Indonesia’s 379 cases.

This is most unsatisfactory, for it is three times more than the Covid-19 data on January 11, 2021 when emergency was declared combat the Covid-19 pandemic, when the daily new Covid-19 cases were 2,232 cases with four Covid-19 deaths;

Malacca voters should use their vote tomorrow to record their dissatisfaction and displeasure with the two “backdoor” governments since Sheraton Move conspiracy in February 2020 which undemocratically toppled the Pakatan Harapan government after 22 months, and performed sub-standard as government of Malaysia.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Malacca on Friday, 19th November 2021)

Gesaan kepada pengundi Melaka untuk mewakili rakyat Malaysia menolak Perikatan Nasional (PN) dan Barisan Nasional (BN) atas sebab hampir 30,000 nyawa terkorban, hampir 6,000 kes BID dan hampir 2.6 juta kes jangkitan Covid-19 direkodkan, dan juga kerana Malaysia mengalami gelombang Covid-19 terpanjang di dunia yang berlanjutan lebih 14 bulan sejak pilihan raya negeri Sabah yang berlangsung pada September tahun lalu

Esok adalah Hari Pengundian untuk pengundi Melaka dalam pilihan raya negeri Melaka.

Saya menggesa kepada pengundi di Melaka untuk mewakili rakyat Malaysia menolak Perikatan Nasional (PN) dan Barisan Nasional (BN) atas sebab hampir 30,000 nyawa terkorban, hampir 6,000 kes kematian di bawa ke hospital (BID) dan hampir 2.6 juta kes jangkitan Covid-19 direkodkan, dan juga kerana Malaysia mengalami gelombang Covid-19 terpanjang di dunia yang berlanjutan lebih 14 bulan sejak pilihan raya negeri Sabah yang berlangsung pada September tahun lalu.

Pengundi Melaka harus memberikan undian yang kukuh kepada Pakatan Harapan dan Adly Zahari bagi mengembalikan semula mandat Pilihan Raya Umum 2018 beliau untuknya menjadi Ketua Menteri Melaka sekali lagi.

Tiada rakyat Malaysia yang menjangka yang Malaysia akan menunjukkan prestasi yang begitu buruk sehingga dilihat sebagai negara paling teruk dalam mengendalikan penularan wabak Covid-19, lebih-lebih lagi ketika wabak Covid-19 mula menular di negara ini tahun lalu, Malaysia dipuji sebagai sebuah negara contoh atas kejayaan kita mengendalikan penularan wabak tersebut.

Malaysia kini bagaimanapun telah tewas kepada Indonesia, dalam kes harian baharu Covid-19 selama 96 hari sejak 18 Ogos 2021 dan jumlah korban Covid-19 selama 70 hari sejak 9 September 2021 kecuali pada 23 September 2021.

Semalam, Malaysia merekodkan 6,380 kes baharu Covid-19 dan 55 korban akibat wabak itu sementara Indonesia merekodkan 400 kes baharu Covid-19 dan 11 korban.

Sepanjang 11 hari kempen pilihan raya negeri Melaka, Malaysia telah mengumpulkan 58,683 kes jangkitan Covid-19 sementara Indonesia mengumpulkan 4,171 kes jangkitan pada tempoh yang sama — Indonesia merekodkan 7.1% daripada kes keseluruhan yang direkodkan Malaysia dalam tempoh berkenaan.

Sepanjang 11 hari pilihan raya negeri Melaka, terdapat hanya satu hari (Hari Penamaan Calon pada 8 November) di mana kes harian baharu Covid-19 berada dalam julat 4,000, lima hari berada dalam julat 5,000 dan lima hari dalam julat 6,000.

Purata kes harian baharu Covid-19 di Malaysia dalam tempoh 11 hari yang lalu adalah sebanyak 5,335 kes berbanding 379 kes di Indonesia.

Ini tidak boleh diterima, kerana jumlah tersebut adalah tiga kali ganda lebih tinggi daripada jumlah kes yang direkodkan pada 11 Januari 2021 semasa Darurat diisytiharkan untuk melawan wabak Covid-19 — 2,232 kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan empat korban akibat wabak itu.

Pengundi Melaka harus menggunakan undi mereka esok untuk menyatakan rasa ketidakpuasan hati mereka terhadap dua kerajaan “pintu belakang” yang terbentuk sejak konspirasi Langkah Sheraton yang berlaku pada Februari 2020 yang secara tidak demokratik telah menumbangkang kerajaan Pakatan Harapan selepas 22 bulan memerintah, selain atas sebab prestasi yang buruk yang ditunjukkan kedua-dua kerajaan “pintu belakang” itu sepanjang menjadi memerintah.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Melaka pada hari Jumaat, 19 November 2021)

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Malacca General Election the most extraordinary of the  22 general elections in my experience – an  election where physical campaigning is banned

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The Malacca General Election is the most extraordinary of the 22 general elections in my experience in the last 56 years – an election where all forms of physical campaigning are banned.

I have gone through 12 national general elections, nine Sarawak state general elections and countless by-elections but this is the first time that we have an election where there are no public rallies, ceramahs, talks and walkabouts – which put the Opposition parties at a great disadvantage.

Nobody can be certain what would be the outcome of the Polling Day tomorrow.

First. will the Malacca general election produce the lowest voter turnout in Malaysian electoral history?

The Covid-19 pandemic produced a 30% voter turnout in Jordan and 29% voter turnout in Algeria. Will it be the same in the Malacca general election?

Or will the Malaccan voters produce a “miracle” with over 70% or 80% voter turnout?

There are signs that the voters of Malacca are realising that the Malacca general election is not about “political frogs” but whether Malaysia can overcome the injustices and failures of the past half-a-century, pull itself up by the bootstraps, and unite all Malaysians regardless of race, religion and region to become a world-class great nation by the time Malaysia celebrates its centennial (100-year birthday) in 2057.

But do we have enough time for Malaccans to shake off the disappointment, despondency, hopelessness and desolation to renew confidence and hope by tomorrow about the future for the sake of our children and children’s children?

Secondly, what will be the outcome of the Malacca general election tomorrow?

Will Pakatan Harapan be able to win at least 15 seats and Adly Zahari return as Malacca Chief Minister?

Will Perikatan Nasional (PN) be wiped out in the Malacca general election, even affecting the position of the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri, making him the Malaysian Prime who served a shorter term than Muhyiddin Yassin?

Will Barisan Nasional win the majority of the seats marking a creeping return of kleptocracy and Najib Razak’s political come-back, in view of Najib’s premier UMNO role in the Malacca general election?

Or will there be a hung Malacca State Assembly, with no coalition able to secure a majority to form the Malacca state government?

We will have to wait for the outcome of the Malacca general election tomorrow.

During the Malacca general election, I re-visited the Hang Tuah well and wondered what befell the Malacca empire five hundred years ago will again happen to Malacca and Malaysia – corruption the culprit that led to the ruination of the nation.

My visit to the Sam Tiong Keng temple in Semabok, Malacca was quite memorable for I encountered Wen Tiansiang, the poet-politician of the Southern Song dynasty, who is prepared to die instead of betraying his loyalty by pledging fealty to a new dynasty

I have been guided all my life by Wen Tianxiang’s immortal words “All men are mortal but my loyalty will illuminate the annals of history forever” and have never compromised my loyalty to Malaysia to make it an united and world-class great nation.

Wen Tiansiang owed his loyalty to the Song dynasty in China but I owed my loyalty to Malaysia, where I was born, educated and will die in Malaysia.

This is why I have thrice declined conferment of titles on me, because political leaders must set an example of “politics for the nation” and not “politics for oneself” – which had been set by a great son of Malacca, Tun Ghafar Baba who accepted titles after he retired from active politics.

I always believe that Malaysia, at the confluence of four great human civilisations – Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western – must leverage on the values and virtues of these four great civilisations to be a world-class great nation.

Malaysia is Instant Asia and this should not be just a slogan to attract tourists all over the world to Malaysia but be the very essence of life in Malaysia.

The Malacca general election must be the first step of a long journey to make everyone in Malaysia possess the spirit of Malaysian First if we are to succeed in our mission to make Malaysia a world-class great nation bv 2057.

We must make all Malaysians, regardless of whether Malay, Chinese, Indian, Kadazan, Iban or Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Sikkhist, Taoist be Malaysian First. This is not going to be a simple or easy job.

Pakatan Harapan government in its 22 months had made a number of mistakes, thinking that it had five years to fulfil its election promises.

Now, from the confessions of Muhyiddin Yassin during the Malacca general election, we know there were forces inside the Pakatan Harapan government which were working at cross-purpose from the Pakatan Harapan election manifesto.

For instance, I had wondered why there was inordinate delay in the DAP nomination of Syahredzan Johan as a Senator although the decision was taken in September 2019, and it was one of the decisions which were nullified by the Sheraton Move conspiracy in Feb. 2020.

I had the opportunity to revisit Cheng Hoon Teng Temple in Malacca, a 350-year oldest temple in the country. In 1984, it was in the eye of a political storm when the Malacca State Government decided the demolish the 12,500 graves on Bukit China.

DAP launched a “Save Bukit China campaign” and although many naysayers at the time said it was a hopeless task as nothing could stop the Malacca State Government from demolishing the cemetery hill for commercial development, the DAP Save Bukit China campaign succeeded because of great support of the people of Malac ca and Malaysia.

If we can save Bukit China in 1984, there is no reason why a Save Malaysia and Transform It into a World-Class Great Nation by Malaysia’s centennial in 2057 cannot succeed.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Malacca on Friday, 19th November 2021)

Pilihan raya negeri Melaka adalah pilihan raya paling luar biasa dalam banyak-banyak 22 pilihan raya yang pernah saya terlibat — pilihan raya di mana kempen fizikal dilarang sama sekali

Saya telah menempuh 12 pilihan raya umum, sembilan pilihan raya negeri Sarawak dan begitu banyak pilihan raya kecil, namun inilah kali pertama di mana kita mempunyai sebuah pilihan raya yang tiada perhimpunan awam, ceramah dan “walkabout” — yang meletakkan parti-parti pembangkang di kedudukan yang merugikan.

Tiada siapa yang mengetahui tentang keputusan pilihan raya esok.

Pertama, adakah kita akan menyaksikan jumlah peratusan keluar mengundi paling rendah dalam sejarah pilihan raya Malaysia?

Jumlah peratusan keluar mengundi di Jordan jatuh ke paras 30% sementara Algeria pula menyaksikan hanya 29% rakyatnya yang layak mengundi keluar mengundi, semua ini akibat daripada penularan wabak Covid-19.

Adakah perkara yang sama akan berlaku dalam pilihan raya negeri Melaka?

Atau adakah pengundi Melaka akan membuat kejutan dengan 70% atau 80% daripada mereka yang layak mengundi akan turun untuk mengundi calon pilihan mereka?

Terdapat beberapa petanda yang menunjukkan bahawa pengundi Melaka sedar bahawa pilihan raya negeri Melaka bukanlah hanya berlegar dalam ruang isu “katak politik” semata-mata, tetapi yang lebih penting adalah tentang sama ada Malaysia mampu untuk mengatasi kegagalan yang dialami negara sejak setengah abad yang lalu, bangkit semula, dan menyatukan semua rakyat Malaysia tidak mengira kaum, agama dan wilayah untuk menjadikan negara ini sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia menjelang tahun 2057.

Namun, cukupkah masa untuk rakyat Melaka melupakan dengan segera rasa kekecewaan dan putus asa dengan memperbaharui semula keyakinan dan harapan mereka menjelang hari pengundian esok demi masa depan anak-anak dan cucu-cucu kita?

Kedua, apakah keputusan daripada pilihan raya Melaka esok? Adakah Pakatan Harapan mampu menang sekurang-kurangnya 15 kerusi dan Adly Zahari kembali menjadi Ketua Menteri Melaka?

Adakah Perikatan Nasional (PN) akan kecundang dalam pilihan raya negeri Melaka, sehingga menjejaskan kedudukan Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri, menjadikan beliau Perdana Menteri dengan tempoh perkhidmatan paling singkat berbanding Muhyiddin Yassin?

Adakah Barisan Nasional akan memenangi majoriti kerusi yang dipertandingkan, sekaligus menjadi petanda kembalinya kleptokrasi dan Najib Razak, mengambil kira peranan Najib dalam pilihan raya negeri Melaka.

Atau adakah Dewan Undangan Negeri Melaka akan tergantung, di mana tiada satu pun gabungan yang mempunyai majoriti untuk membentuk kerajaan negeri Melaka.

Semua ini akan terjawab selepas kita mendapat keputusan pilihan raya negeri Melaka esok.

Semasa kempen pilihan raya negeri Melaka, saya berkesempatan melawat semula telaga Hang Tuah dan terfikir adakah kejatuhan empayar Melaka lima ratus tahun lalu akan berlaku kembali di Melaka dan Malaysia secara keseluruhannya — rasuah, punca yang menyebabkan keruntuhan negara.

Lawatan saya ke tokong Sam Tiong Keng di Semabok, Melaka memberikan kesan yang mendalam terhadap saya, kerana saya mendapat penyair-ahli politik Weng Tianxiang, dari Dinasti Song Selatan, merupakan tokoh bersejarah tokong ini. Beliau dikenali dengan semangat berani mati daripada mengkhianati kesetiaanku dengan menyerahkan jiwanya kepada dinasti baharu.

Sepanjang hidup saya dipandu oleh kata-kata Wen Tianxiang, “Semua orang akan mati, tetapi kesetiaan saya akan menerangi catatan sejarah buat selama-lamanya” dan saya tidak pernah berkompromi dengan kesetiaan saya terhadap Malaysia untuk menjadikannya negara hebat berkelas dunia.

Wen Tianxiang setia kepada Dinasti Song di China, dan saya pula kekal setia kepada Malaysia, tanah di mana saya lahir, dididik, dan akhirnya akan mati di sini.

Kerana inilah saya kembali ke Malaysia seminggu selepas saya diundi sebagai Ahli Parlimen Bandar Melaka, walaupun saya dinasihati untuk kekal di luar negara sehingga kekecohan akibat rusuhan Mei 13 1969 reda kerana saya berada dalam senarai hitam yang terdiri daripada mereka yang akan ditahan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA). Tetapi, tempat saya adalah di Malaysia, bukan mana-mana tempat lain.

Ini sebabnya mengapa saya telah tiga kali menolak penganugerahan darjah kebesaran, kerana bagi saya; pemimpin politik harus memegang prinsip “politik demi negara” dan bukannya “politik demi kepentingan sendiri” — yang pernah dilakukan sendiri oleh anak jati Melaka, Tun Ghafar Baba yang hanya menerima penganugerahan pangkat selepas beliau bersara daripada politik.

Saya sentiasa percaya yang Malaysia ini merupakan titik pertemuan empat tamadun hebat dunia — Melayu/Islam, Cina, India, dan Barat — dan kita perlu memanfaatkan nilai-nilai murni empat tamadun hebat ini.

Malah negara kita ini boleh dikira sebagai gambaran menyeluruh Asia, dan perkara ini tidak seharusnya hanya menjadi tarikan pelancong, sebaliknya menjadi asas kehidupan di Malaysia.

Pilihan raya negeri Melaka harus menjadi langkah pertama dalam perjalanan panjang untuk semua rakyat Malaysia menjiwai semangat “Malaysian First” jika kita benar-benar mahu berjaya dalam misi kita untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia menjelang 2057.

Kita harus memastikan semua rakyat Malaysia tidak kira Melayu, Cina, India, Kadazan, Iban atau Ismail, Buddha, Kristian, Hindu, Sikh, Tao menjiwai semangat “Malaysian First” meskipun ia bukanlah suatu perkara yang mudah.

Kerajaan 22 bulan Pakatan Harapan membuat beberapa kesalahan, fikir yang mereka mempunyai masa selama lima tahun untuk melunaskan semua janji pilihan raya.

Kini, menerusi pengakuan Muhyiddin Yassin semasa pilihan raya negeri Melaka, kita tahu bahawa terdapat desakan yang kuat dari dalam kerajaan Pakatan Harapan yang cuba untuk membelakangi manifesto pilihan raya Pakatan Harapan.

Sebagai contoh, saya tertanya-tanya mengapa ada kelewatan dalam mencalonkan Syahredzan Johan dari DAP untuk jawatan Senator sedangkan keputusan itu telah diambil pada September 2019, dan ia adalah salah satu keputusan yang tidak dapat direalisasikan akibat daripada konspirasi Langkah Sheraton pada Februari 2020.

Saya mendapat peluang untuk melawat semula Tokong Cheng Hoon Teng di Melaka, sebuah tokong berusia 350 tahun yang tertua di negara ini. Pada 1984, ia menyaksikan “ribut politik” susulan tindakan kerajaan negeri Melaka yang membuat keputusan untuk memusnahkan 12,500 kubur di Bukit Cina.

DAP melancarkan “kempen Bukit Cina” dan meskipun ramai yang menentang ketika itu dengan mengatakan ia tidak punya harapan kerana mereka beranggap tiada apa yang dapat menghalang keputusan kerajaan negeri Melaka untuk memusnahkan kawasan perkuburan lereng bukit untuk tujuan pembangunan komersial, kempen Selamatkan Bukit Cina yang dicetuskan DAP telah beraya atas berkat sokongan rakyat Melaka dan Malaysia secara amnya.

Jika kita boleh menyelamatkan Bukit Cina pada 1984, tiada sebab kita tidak boleh menyelamatkan Malaysia dan menjadikan negara tercinta ini sebagai sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia menjelang ulang tahunnya yang ke-100 pada tahun 2057.

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Melaka pada hari Jumaat, 19 November 2021)

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Support for Anwar’s call for review of CSR MOU if it is taken as a blank cheque for the most repugnant and nefarious government expenditures like the RM100 million housing for Najib

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I fully support Anwar Ibrahim’s call for a review of the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan if it is taken as a blank cheque for the most repugnant and nefarious government expenditures like the RM100 million housing for Najib Razak, the person who had abused public trust and turned Malaysia into a kleptocracy.

No decent Malaysian can ever support RM100 million of public funds for housing for Najib, when he was responsible for Malaysia losing tens and even hundreds of billions of ringgit from the 1MDB and other scandals.

I am sure that even his brother, Nazir Razak, who had recently published a book named “What’s In a Name”, would not agree.

The government should demand that Najib cough out the billions of ringgit still in his command instead of allocating RNM100 million for Najib’s housing.

Is the Ismail Sabri government so bereft of moral and ethical values that it is prepared to allocate RM100 million for Najib’s housing?

What is the stand of the PAS President and PAS on this issue, or they have no stand whatsoever?

(Media Comment by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Malacca on Friday, 19th November 2021)

Sokongan kepada seruan Anwar untuk menyemak semula MOU CSR sekiranya perkara ini dilihat sebagai satu ‘cek kosong’ untuk perbelanjaan menjijikkan seperti rumah bernilai RM100 juta untuk Najib

Saya menyokong penuh seruan Anwar Ibrahim untuk menyemak semula memorandum persefahaman (MOU) kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) yang ditandatangi di antara Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri dengan Pakatan Harapan sekiranya perkara ini dilihat sebagai satu ‘cek kosong’ oleh kerajaan untuk perbelanjaan menjijikkan seperti rumah bernilai RM100 juta untuk Najib Razak, individu yang telah mengkhianati amanah rakyat dan menjadikan Malaysia sebuah kleptokrasi.

Tidak ada mana-mana rakyat Malaysia yang baik yang boleh menyokong RM100 juta wang rakyat digunakan untuk memberikan rumah kepada Najib, sedangkan beliaulah yang bertanggungjawab menyebabkan negara kita kerugian berpuluh, malah beratus billion ringgit akibat daripada 1MDB dan skandal-skandal lain.

Saya pasti abangnya sendiri juga, Nazir Razak, yang baru-baru ini menerbitkan buku bertajuk “What’s In a Name” juga tidak akan bersetuju.

Kerajaan sepatutnya menuntut Najib memulangkan berbilion ringgit yang masih dikawal beliau, bukannya memperuntukkan RM100 juta untuk rumah beliau.

Adakah Kerajaan Ismail Sabri ini sebegitu kekontangan moral dan etika sehingga mereka bersedia untuk memperuntukkan RM100 juta untuk merumahkan Najib?

Perlu ada komitmen daripada Kerajaan Ismail Sabri untuk tidak membelanjakan walau satu sen sekalipun untuk rumah RM100 juta Najib ini melainkan perkara ini diluluskan Parlimen. Kerana saya percaya, Ahli-ahli Parlimen PN dan BN yang berfikiran baik juga pasti akan berasa jijik dengan idea RM100 juta wang rakyat digunakan untuk memberikan rumah kepada Najib.

Apakah pendirian Presiden PAS dan juga Parti PAS dalam isu ini? Atau adakah mereka ini tidak mempunyai pendirian langsung?

(Komen Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Melaka pada hari Jumaat, 19 November 2021)

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When Najib applied for the RM100 million housing is secondary to the question that Najib is not entitled to  it because of 1MDB and other scandals which cost Malaysia  to suffer losses to the tune of tens and hundreds of billions of ringgit

There seems to be differences between the Finance Minister, Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz and former Prime Minister Najib Razak as to when Najib applied for the RM100 million housing – whether the application was made after the 2022 Budget was presented to Parliament on Oct. 29, 2021 or way back in 2018 after he was toppled as Prime Minister.

When Najib applied for the RM100 million housing is secondary to the question that Najib is not entitled to it because of the 1MDB and other scandals which cost Malaysia to  suffer losses to the tune of tens and hundreds of billions of ringgit.

It is just repugnant and unconscionable that our children and children’s children will be burdened  by this gargantuan debt but Najib is rewarded RM100 million of housing for his most unMalaysian act.

Something is very wrong with our education system if we permit such travesties in public life.

And here we have Najib as the virtual leader of the UMNO campaign in the Malacca general election with polling day set for tomorrow

Najib should announce his withdrawal as the virtual leader of the UMNO campaign in the Malacca general election in order not to taint the UMNO Malacca campaign with his colossal moral and political  blemishes?

Will the UMNO campaign for the Malacca general elections officially dissociate itself from Najib’s RM100 million housing and  the  mutli-trillion 1MDB scandals?

(Media Comment (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Malacca on Saturday, November 19, 2021)

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Malaysia has lost out to China and now  losing out to India and Indonesia in handling the Covid-19 pandemic – how low will Malaysia go?

I am fortified in my call yesterday to the Malacca voters to represent Malaysians to vote against both the Perikatan Nasional (PN) and Barisan Nasional (BN) candidates for the loss of nearly 30,000 lives (with more than 6,000 Brought-in-Dead Covid-19 deaths) and nearly 2.6 million Covid-19 cases because we are left far behind by other countries in the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Yesterday, we recorded 6,355 new Covid-19 cases and 45 Covid-19 deaths (including seven BID deaths), losing out to India which recorded 5,883 daily new Covid-19 cases and losing out to Indonesia which beat Malaysia   by recording five (5)  daily single-digit Covid-19 deaths!

We have lost out to China. Now we are beginning to lose out to India and Indonesia in the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Malaysia has lost  out to Indonesia, both in daily new Covid-19 cases for 97 days since August 18, 2021  and daily Covid-19 deaths for 71 days since 9th September 10, 2021 except for a day on 23rd September 2021.

How low will Malaysia go?

Is this the result of the failure to develop Malaysian talents and meritocracy at all levels of our education system and at all stages of public life – whether in the civil service or the corporate sector?

For half-a-century, one nation after another have overtaken Malaysia – Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam. At the present trend, we will be overtaken by Indonesia and Philippines in the coming decades.

Malaysia will never fulfil our Malaysian Dream to be a world-class  great nation if we continue to allow toxic “race and religion” rhetoric and politics to divide Malaysians along racial and religious lines.

Let the Malacca general election today mark a new start for Malaysian nation-building.

We must launch a Malaysia First campaign, where every Malaysian regardless of race, religion, region or politics, regard himself or herself as Malaysian First, and not Malay First, Chinese First, Indian First, Kadazan First or Iban First to leverage on the values and virtues of the four great civilisations which meet in confluence in Malaysia to  build a great Malaysian civilization and  reaffirm an uphold the five nation- building principles of Rukun Negara.

Let us set our sight on the 100th Birthday of Malaysia to make Malaysia a world-class great nation by Malaysia’s Centennial in 2057.

BN and PN stand for the past while PH represents the future.

The choice in the Malacca general election cannot be more stark or significant.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Malacca on Saturday, 20th November 2021)

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Is Malacca general election the stepping stone for Najib to become the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia?

The Facebook video of Najib Razak raises many questions, chief of which is whether the Malacca general election is to be the stepping stone for Najib to become the  10th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

From his Facebook Video, Najib was  evidently speaking as the commander-in-chief of the UMNO campaign in the Malacca general election and the question automatically arises whether the Malacca general election will be a stepping stone for Najib to become the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Najib thanked the Malacca voters for supporting him and UMNO and he described the satisfaction of BN’s state election big win yesterday with a good night’s sleep.

It is unfortunate that Najib’s RM100 million housing issue came too late in the campaign to fully  impact on the outcome of the Malacca general election.

But the question whether UMNO’s big win the Malacca general election  was a stepping-stone for Najib to become the 10th Prime Minister  and the return of kleptocacy to Malaysia  should be pondered not only by Malaccans but by all Malaysians.

The Malacca general election has been described as a landslide victory for UMNO. This description is problematic as the Barisan won a “landslide” victory only  terms of seats won but not in terms of votes secured by each coalition.

In yesterday’s Malacca general election, Barisan Nasional won  38.39% or 122,741 votes cast, while Pakatan Harapan won 35.65% or 113,968 votes. Perikatan Nasional secured 24.47% or 78,220 votes of the total votes cast.

The difference between Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Harapan is only 8,773 votes and there are 12 seats which  Barisan Nasional won with less than 1,000-vote majority, seven against PH and five against PN.

If these 12 seats had been won by PH and PN, the distribution of seats among the three coalitions would be  PH 12, BN 9 and PN 7 – setting off Malacca on a new political waters.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 21st November 2021)

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UMNO leadership will be tempted by Malacca general election results to rush to hold the 15th General Election  for the country as early as possible, even early 2022

The UMNO leadership will be tempted by the Malacca general election results to tear up the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and Pakatan Harapan to rush for  the 15th General Election for the country to held  as early as possible, even early 2022.

This is because based on the Malacca general election results,  UMNO and BN will be able to take over the Federal government on its own, and may regain two-thirds majority in Parliament  and even free the top UMNO leaders from corruption charges if the 15th General Elections is held in early 2022.

But this could be a fatal mistake.

It may be a serious misjudgement to expect a repeat of the  Malacca General Election results,  where  Barisan Nasional coalition won big over the other two coalitions, Pakatan Harapan and Perikatan Nasional,  in the 15th national general elections for a variety of reasons, including:

·         The low voter turnout rate of 65.85%, lower than the Sabah general election turnout of 66.61% in September last year; and

·         The slim majorities won by many of the  Barisan Nasional candidates – 12 seats with majorities of less than 1,000 votes, seven against PH and five against PN – showed that 21 seats won by UMNO was not a foregone conclusion but the major role played by chance  and confirmed doubts among the top UMNO leaders up to  the last minute that a major electoral victory was awaiting them.

The RM100 million housing scandal of Najib Razak came too late to make any impact on the Malacca general election voting or it might have made a greater difference in the outcome if the expose had come  a few days earlier.

There was growing realisation that a vote in the Malacca General Election was important and that the voter should not surrender to disappointment, despondency, hopelessness and desolation that  more institutional reforms and changes were not accomplished in the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government, but another week was needed to bring out another 10-15 per cent of the voting turnout.

The coming weeks and months will determine whether UMNO leaders have their way to have early 15th general election, which is a complex problem as there is no guarantee that Ismail Sabri will be the UMNO Prime Minister after the 15th General Election even if Barisan Nasional succeeds in winning the majority to form the Federal Government.

There is one silver lining in the black clouds of the Malacca general election results yesterday.

Malacca DAP State Chairman, Tey Kok Kiew, who lost in the Bemban constituency, was a great example of dedication of the Malaysian First cause of the DAP, as he could have remained State Assemblyman if he stayed behind in  the relatively safe seat of Bandar Hilir instead of allocating it to his political secretary and DAP Deputy leader, Leng Chau Yeng, who won with a 7,778-vote majority yesterday.

What Kok Kiew had done was  in the best DAP tradition.

In my 56 years of political life, I have tried eight times, whether in parliamentary or state assembly elections, to leave a safe seat to contest in a comparatively unsafe seat  and I have  succeeded  and failed four times each.

The other DAP leader who was not  afraid to lose to promote the DAP’s Malaysia First cause was Liew Chin Tong, who left the comparatively safe parliamentary seat of Bukit Bendera in Penang to contest in Kluang constituency in Johore in the 2013 general election, which he won, but he lost when he contested in Ayer Hitam parliamentary constituency in Johore in the 2018 general election.

Kok Kiew should be an example  to be emulated by other DAP leaders.

During the Malacca general election campaign, I revisited Hang Tuah’s grave in Duyong. I wondered whether the curse of corruption which had caused the fall of the Malacca empire more than 500 years ago would also be the cause of downfall of Malacca and Malaysia in the 21st century.

But I am comforted by the thought that just as Malaccans and Malaysians have succeeded in the “Save Bukit China campaign” in 1984 to save the 450-year cemetery hill as a national heritage, it is not an impossible task for Malaysians to succeed in a new mission to save Malaysia so that we can become a world-class great nation before Malaysia’s Centennial in 2057.

But this is only possible if we can persuade the majority of Malaysians to be Malaysian First, to unite with other Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics to uphold and promote  the five nation-building principles of Rukun Negara.

The real battle is not yesterday, but in coming  months, years and decades.

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

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One lesson  of the Malacca general election

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There are many lessons to be drawn from the Malacca general election last Saturday but it is counter-productive to zero in on any personality by putting all the blame and faults on him, in this case the Pakatan Harapan leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

First, there is a need for a change of political mindset by all political leaders.

The days of political hegemony by UMNO should be ended by the May 9, 2018 general election where Pakatan Harapan toppled a seemingly invincible UMNO-hegemonised Barisan Nasional (BN), but the Malacca general election of 20th November 2021 seemed to herald a return of UMNO’s political hegemony.

This is not the case as can be seen by the votes secured by the three coalitions from the total votes cast – Barisan Nasional 38.39% or 122,741 votes; Pakatan Harapan 35.65% or 113.968 votes; Perikatan Nasional 24.47 or 78,220 votes.

Political analyst Bridget Welsh has debunked two interpretations of the Malacca General Elections, firstly, that UMNO had returned to its hegemonic past when this was not the case as illustrated by the 38.39% of the votes it secured in the Malacca general election although this led to its gain of five seats to 18 from 13; and secondly, the political come-back of MCA and MIC which won two and one seats respectively, when in fact, MCA lost ground marginally, from 10 per cent to 8 per cent while MIC kept to its 1% of votes when compared to the 14th General Election.

We are in new political situation where no political party can exercise political hegemony but the coalition political mindset has still to be developed as the political mindset is still set as if political hegemony of a single political party exists.

Although the Pakatan Harapan government should be the first to explore the new coalition politics mindset in Malaysia, it failed to do so and was mired in the hegemonic mould of the Barisan Nasional of the past half-a-century.

The Prime Minister of a coalition of equals like the Pakatan Harapan should operate differently from the Prime Minister of a Barisan Nasional based on UMNO political hegemony, but this mindset continued in the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government from May 2018 – February 2020.

In a coalition based on the hegemony of one political party, the Prime Minister decides on everything subject to the acceptance level of the other component parties.

In a coalition of equals, the Prime Minister would have to consult and secure the agreement of the other component parties on the Minister to be appointed, the Ministry to be allocated and the policy to be followed by the coalition government.

The confession by Muhyiddin Yassin during the Malacca general election campaign highlighted that in the “hegemony” mould of the coalition government, it was possible for component parties of the coalition to work at cross-purpose from the coalition objectives, like the arrest and incarceration of elected representatives of component parties on trumped-up charges of terrorist links with Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers.

The coalition mind-set can only be developed under the Pakatan Harapan coalition and not the hegemony-based coalition of the Barisan Nasional.

Pakatan Harapan should also accept an unanimity rule for decision-making by its presidential council.

Such a rule would avoid the Pakatan Harapan blunder like accepting “political frogs”, which was decisively rejected in the Malacca general election.

Pakatan Harapan should never lose the moral high ground of integrity, public service before self and being Malaysian First in a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural nation.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 22nd November 2021)

Satu pengajaran daripada PRN Melaka

Terdapat banyak pengajaran daripada Pilihan Raya Negeri Melaka yang berlangsung Sabtu lepas. Tetapi, cubaan untuk meletakkan semua kesalahan ke atas mana-mana individu, dalam kes ini, pemimpin Pakatan Harapan Anwar Ibrahim, adalah satu cubaan yang tidak produktif.

Pertamanya, perlu ada perubahan gaya pemikiran politik oleh semua pemimpin politik.

Era hegemoni politik UMNO sepatutnya sudah tamat pada pilihan raya umum 9 Mei 2018 di mana Pakatan Harapan menumbangkan Barisan Nasional yang didominasi UMNO, tetapi PRN Melaka pada 20 November 2021 ini seakan-akan menunjukkan kedatangan semula hegemoni politik UMNO.

Perkara ini tidaklah benar dan dapat dilihat daripada undi yang diraih daripada ketiga-tiga gabungan politik — di mana Barisan Nasional meraih 38.39% atau 122,741 undi, Pakatan Harapan dengan 35.65% atau 113,968 undi, dan Perikatan Nasional dengan 24.47% atau 78,220 undi.

Penganalisa politik, Bridget Welsh, telah membongkarkan dua tafsiran PRN Melaka, pertamanya bahawa UMNO telah kembali ke era hegemoninya sebelum ini sedangkan perkara ini tidak tepat seperti yang dilihat daripada hanya 38.39% peratusan undian yang diraihnya walaupun perkara ini membawa kepada pertambahan lima kerusi, daripada 13 ke 18 kerusi; dan keduanya kononnya MCA dan MIC kini berjaya kembali ke arena politik selepas memenangi dua dan satu kerusi masing-masing, sedangkan MCA kehilangan sokongan di lapangan, daripada 10 peratus ke 8 peratus undian, manakala MIC mengekalkan kadar sokongannya pada 1% berbanding dengan Pilihan Raya Umum 14.

Kita kini berada dalam situasi politik baharu di mana tidak ada parti politik yang boleh mempunyai hegemoni politik, tetapi pada masa yang sama, gaya fikir sebagai sebuah gabungan masih perlu dibangunkan memandangkan ramai yang masih menggunakan pemikiran hegemoni politik lama.

Walaupun kerajaan Pakatan Harapan sepatutnya menjadi yang pertama untuk menerokai gaya fikir politik gabungan di Malaysia, ia telah gagah untuk berbuat demikian lalu terperangkap dalam acuan politik hegemoni yang diamalkan Barisan Nasional selama setengah abad yang lepas.

Seorang Perdana Menteri untuk gabungan saksama seperti Pakatan Harapan patut bertugas dengan cara berbeza dengan berbanding dengan seorang Perdana Menteri Barisan Nasional yang didominasi UMNO, tetapi pemikiran ini berterusan dalam 22 bulan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan mentadbir daripada Mei 2018 sehingga Februari 2020.

Dalam satu gabungan dengan hegemoni sesebuah parti, Perdana Menteri membuat keputusan mengikut tahap penerimaan parti komponen yang lain.

Dalam satu gabungan yang saksama pula, Perdana Menteri perlulah berunding dan mencapai persetujuan parti komponen yang lain mengenai pelantikan Menteri, pengagihan Kementerian, dan dasar-dasar yang akan dilaksanakan.

Pengakuan Muhyiddin Yassin semasa kempen PRN Melaka menunjukkan dalam acuan “hegemoni” kerajaan gabungan ini, ada kemungkinan untuk parti komponen untuk bergerak dengan cara yang menyimpang daripada matlamat bersama gabungan tersebut, seperti penangkapan dan penahanan wakil rakyat parti komponen atas tuduhan dibuat-buat berkenaan dengan aktiviti keganasan Tamil Tigers di Sri Lanka.

Pemikiran politik gabungan ini hanya boleh dicapai di bawah Pakatan Harapan dan bukanlah Barisan Nasional yang berteraskan hegemoni sesebuah parti.

Pakatan Harapan juga perlu mengguna pakai peraturan untuk persetujuan sebulat suara dalam Majlis Presidennya.

Perkara seperti ini akan mengelakkan Pakatan Harapan daripada membuat kesilapan seperti menerima “katak politik” yang telah ditolak bulat-bulat dalam PRN Melaka.

Pakatan Harapan tidak boleh hilang kedudukan moral, integriti, khidmat demi rakyat dan bukannya diri sendiri dan juga pada masa yang sama perlulah melihat diri kita semua pertamanya sebagai Rakyat Malaysia dalam masyarakat yang berbilang kaum, bahasa, agama, dan budaya.

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

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Najib should explain whether he is completely devoid of any crumb of moral scruple as to apply for RM100 million housing  as former Prime Minister despite the multi-billion ringgit  1MDB scandal which made Malaysia infamous worldwide as a kleptocracy

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Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Anwar Ibrahim said the cabinet must explain why it had so easily agreed in principle to former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak’s request for a property valued at RM100 million.

Anwar is right, but a more serious question for Najib to answer is whether he is completely devoid of any crumb of moral scruple which led him to apply for RM100 million housing as former Prime Minister despite the multi-billion ringgit 1MDB scandal, which made Malaysia notorious world-wide as a kleptocracy.

In fact, Najib had been very busy in the past few days to deflect public attention from this very question, from his alleged refusal of the RM100 million housing to his proposed sale of the RM100 million housing so that the proceeds could be used to raise i-Citra withdrawal limit from RM5,000 to RM10,000.

But all this are to avoid the elephant in the room: how he could have the effrontery to submit his application for a RM100 million housing after he was evicted from office in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 for making Malaysia a kleptocracy, and now his equally brazen effrontery in trying to make the Malacca general election a stepping stone for him to return as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Malaysians are still waiting for Najib’s answer.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday 22nd November 2021)

Najib harus jelaskan sama ada beliau sebenarnya sudah tiada rasa malu apabila memohon rumah dan hartanah bernilai RM100 juta atas dasar pernah menjadi Perdana Menteri sedangkan nama beliau terkait dengan skandal 1MDB yang menyebabkan kerugian berbilion ringgit dan menjadikan Malaysia terkenal dengan gelaran kleptokrasi di seluruh dunia

Ketua Pembangkang, Anwar Ibrahim hari ini mempertikaikan mengapa kerajaan sebelum ini begitu mudah mempertimbangkan permohonan Najib Abdul Razak untuk mendapatkan rumah dan hartanah bernilai RM100 juta.

Persoalan yang dibangkitkan Anwar itu tepat, tetapi persoalan yang lebih penting untuk dijawab oleh Najib adalah mengapa beliau seolah-seolah tiada rasa bersalah sehingga begitu berani untuk memohon rumah dan hartanah bernilai RM100 juta kerana mantan perdana menteri itu seperti diketahui umum telah dijatuhkan hukuman berkaitan skandal 1MDB yang telah menyebabkan kerugian bernilai berbilion ringgit, malah menjadikan Malaysia terkenal sebagai kleptokrasi di seantero dunia.

Malah, sejak beberapa hari lalu, Najib dilihat begitu sibuk mengalihkan perhatian rakyat daripada persoalan [penting ini, daripada isu penolakan beliau terhadap rumah dan hartanah bernilai RM100 juta yang didakwa ditawarkan kepada beliau sehingga kepada mencadangkan hartanah dan rumah itu dijual bagi menaikkan had pengeluaran i-Citra daripada RM5,000 kepada RM10,000.

Semua ini dibuat untuk menutup persoalan yang lebih besar: bagaimana beliau boleh tiada secebis rasa malu dan memohon rumah dan hartanah bernilai RM100 juta selepas beliau ditolak rakyat pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 pada 9 Mei 2018 kerana menjadikan Malaysia sebuah kleptokrasi, dan kini menjadikan pilihan raya negeri Melaka sebagai batu loncatan untuk beliau kembali sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10.

Rakyat Malaysia masih menantikan jawapan Najib.

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin 22 November 2021)

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