Will Najib, as Chairman of Barisan Nasional, assume full responsibility for the fake news on the 1MDB scandal by BN and 1MDB in the past few days and turn himself in to the police for having committed offences under the Anti-Fake News Act?

As Chairman of Barisan Nasional, will Datuk Najib Razak assume full responsibility for the fake news on the 1MDB scandal by Barisan Nasional and 1MDB in the past few days and turn himself in to the police for having committed offences under the Anti-Fake News Act, with the draconian penalties on conviction of a maximum of RM500,000 fine, six years jail or both.

For instance, the Barisan Nasional strategic communications team, which is headed by the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datu Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan, said that that  Najib had returned most, if not all, of the RM2.6 billion donation he received in 2013.

This a double lie, for Najib had not returned most, and definitely not all, of the RM2.6 billion Donation to Saudi royalty he received in 2013.

The BN strategic communications team made this claim  in response to the FaceBook posting by former Cabinet Minister, Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, asking the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) to clarify if it had known about caretaker prime minister Najib Razak’s infamous RM2.6 billion donation, and how the department had dealt with it at the time.

In an open letter to IRB on her Facebook, Rafidah said she had once been asked about the alleged donation from the Arabs, and if the prime minister had ever been taxed on the amount that had been deposited into his private bank accounts.

She said: “I have no idea… My friends and I became very curious. We would like to ask, and can IRB please clarify and explain to the people at large, is the donation given to the prime minister, and transferred into his personal account, taxable?”

In her posting, Rafidah also questioned if Najib is a registered tax exempt charitable entity, and if he operated the account himself.

Instead of answering these legitimate questions by Rafidah, the BN strategic Communications team made the fantastic claim that Najib had returned most, if not all, of the RM2.6 billion donation.

If it was true that Najib had returned most, if not all, of the RM2.6 billion donation in 2013, Malaysia would not suffer the 3Is of infamy, ignominy and iniquity as a global kleptocracy!

This is because it is a big lie, fake news and false information for anyone to claim that Najib had returned most, if not all, of the RM2.6 billion donation he received in 2013?

There are documentary evidence to show that Najib had received RM2.6 billion donation, not from any Saudi Arabian Royalty, but from 1MDB funds; and although RM2.1 billion was “returned” to the original donor, it was not to any Saudi Arabia royalty but  the 1MDB-linked TANORE bank account in Singapore, and that  the RM2.1 billion “returned” monies were used to purchase the RM1 billion Equanimity luxury superyacht owned by Jho Low and seized by the Indonesian authorities in Bali in February and the RM144 million pink diamond necklace for the “wife of MO1”, among other squanderings  from stolen 1MDB funds.

None other than the head of the BN strategic communications team had admitted that “MO1” was Najib Razak, saying that only an “idiot” would not know that “MO1” was Najib.

Will the Attorney-General prosecute Najib and the BN Strategic Communications Team for the offence of “fake news”, which carries the penalty of RM500,000 fine, six years’ jail or both?

I am setting up a bureau of lawyers  from inside and outside the DAP and Pakatan Harapan to consider whether police reports should be lodged against Najib for crimes under the Anti-Fake News Act if  Najib is not prepared to turn himself in to the police and confess to violations under the Anti-Fake News Act.

(Media Conference Statement in Kluang together with Pakatan Harapan candidates for the Kluang parliamentary and Mengkibol and Mahkota state assembly seats

after a walkabout in Kluang on Monday, April 15, 2018 at 10 am)

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Five aspects of the Malay Tsunami which will be the outstanding characteristic of the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018

The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, yesterday cautioned the Malays and bumiputeras against triggering a Malay tsunami in the upcoming 14th General Election as this will jeopardize their rights and interests.

This is a far cry from what Najib said only ten days ago, that that he could not detect a Malay tsunami taking place in the 14GE.

Najib is beginning to learn the truism that “a week is a long time in politics”, and the Polling Day of the 14th General Election on May 9 is still more than three weeks away.

On May 9, 2016 two years ago, Filipinos changed their President. On May 9, 2017, a year ago, the South Koreans changed their President.

Will Malaysians create history on May 9 this year to change the Prime Minister of Malaysia and the government of Malaysia?

Will May 9 see Tun Mahathir as the seventh Prime Minister and Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as the eighth Prime Minister?

When Anwar Ibrahim leaves Sungai ‘Buloh Prison, who will enter the Prison?

Will May 9 see the end of the famous RAHMAN saying on the first six Prime Ministers of Malaysia –  Tunku Abdul Rahman,  Abdul Razak, Hussein Onn, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Razak and the beginning of a new saying predicting the new series  of Prime Ministers  – starting with Tun Mahathir and Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as the seventh and eighth Prime Ministers.  This means that the second saying to predict a new series of Prime Ministers of Malaysia will start with “MA” – which could be “MALAYSIA”, “MAHATHIR” or any other possible term.

Malaysia will only create history if there is a Malay tsunami on May 9, which will unravel  Najib and UMNO/BN’s grand design to win big in the 14th GE, even to  regain two-thirds parliamentary majority and restore UMNO hegemony in Malaysian national politics.

From dismissing that a Malay tsunami can happen in Malaysia in the 14GE, the UMNO leaders, propagandists and quinoa cybertroopers have moved to a new position,  decrying and  trying to create fear among the Malays that a Malay tsunami will be the doom of the Malays.

This is just as much as a lie, fake news and false information like the mountain of lies, fake news and false information they had tried to  demonise me   in the past few decades,

I have been accused of being  anti-Malay, anti-Islam; anti-Chinese educated Chinese; anti-English educated Chinese; anti-Indian; anti-Christian; cause of May 13 riots in 1969; a communist; multiple agent of foreign powers including CIA, KGB, MI5, Australian Secret Intelligence; received RM1 billion from Mahathir, RM100 million from tycoon Robert Kuok and over RM1 from Israeli sources; given RM40 million to a news portal; offered PAS President Hadi Awang RM100 million to defy the Sultan of Selangor; that I dominate and run Pakatan Harapan; want to be Prime Minister when Pakatan Harapan wins the 14th General Election; plan  to  disband Malay Regiment and  destroy Malaysia-China relations, and a catalogue of  incredible   fake news, false information and downright lies!

The Malay tsunami which will be the outstanding characteristic of the 14th General Election will have the following five aspects:

Firstly, it will mean a rejection of UMNO in the 14GE but it does not mean the doom of the Malays. I had worked with Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman and was in touch  with the former  third Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Hussein Onn, during their retirement as they were dismayed by the direction  that UMNO  was taking, and I am now working with Malaysia’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Tun Mahathir because UMNO under Najib today has gone overboard and is only looking after the interests of Najib’s cronies and kleptocrats at the expense of  the ordinary Malays and Malaysians we well as the nation’s good name and honour.

Is it ever conceivable that Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Hussein Onn and Tun Mahathir – who had collectively been Prime Ministers of Malaysia for some 40 years – would work against the rights and interests of the Malays?

Of course not.

Instead of enjoying high international esteem, admiration and respect for over four decades of nation-building under the first five Prime Ministers, Malaysia under Najib is now scorned and looked askance by the rest of the world as a global kleptocracy.

This is why UMNO must be defeated and Malaysia saved in the 14th General Election, which will allow Malaysia to join the ranks of normal democracies like  Japan, India,  South Korea, Taiwan, even Indonesia and Philippines where the voters can exercise their constitutional right to elect the government of their choice peacefully and democratically without threat of violence, chaos or catastrophe.

Secondly, a Malay tsunami in the 14GE to defeat UMNO does not necessarily mean the doom of UMNO. It gives UMNO the opportunity to reform itself  to make itself relevant to Malaysian politics.

If political parties in other countries which had dominated the politics of nations during the  first decades of their nationhood, like in Japan, India and Taiwan, could recover their relevance and be returned to power in subsequent elections, is UMNO incapable of such a feat?

A Pakatan Harapan Federal Government in Putrajaya will have to demonstrate it is more capable and successful in looking after the rights and interests of all Malaysians, whether Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Ibans, Orang Asli as the Pakatan Harapan coalition of PKR, Amanah, Bersatu and DAP, does not want to be a one-term government but want to be the Malaysian Government in Putrajaya  not only in the 14GE, but also to enjoy the confidence of the national electorate so as to have the mandate to form the Malaysian Government in Putrajaya in the 15GE, 16GE and thereafter.

Thirdly, a Malay tsunami does not mean the dismantling of Malay-bumiputera institutions and the dissolution or closure of institutions like FELDA, FELCRA, MARA and Tabung Haji but to make them more successful and competitive  to serve their original missions and not to become “captive” institutions to serve the interests of Najib cronies and kleptocrats.

Fourthly, a Malay tsunami is not anti-Chinese, anti-Indian, anti-Kadazan or anti-Iban but the best part of a Malaysian Tsunami in the 14GE to reset nation-building policies and directions to fulfill the Malaysian Dream of the Merdeka generation and the Malaysian generation in the first decade of nationhood for Malaysia to become am united, harmonious, just, democratic, progressive and prosperous Malaysia recognized worldwide as a top-class nation in every field of human endeavour instead of hurtling, as at present, towards the trajectory of a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

Fifthly, a Malay tsunami is to liberate  Malaysia from the ignominy, infamy and iniquity of a global kleptocracy, for no religion would countenance their leaders coming from the ranks of the kleptocratic 4Ps – Pencuri, Perompak Penyagak and Penyamun. It is  not anti-Islam, anti-Buddhism, anti-Christianity, anti-Hinduism or anti-Sikkhim but an important  step to make Malaysia a model to the world as to how a nation of diverse races, religions, languages and cultures could build a new civilization of tolerance, morality, civility, progress and success  from the best of the diverse races, religions, languages and cultures which meet in confluence in Malaysia.

(Speech at the DAP Teluk Intan Ceramah in Teluk Intan on Monday, 16th April 2018 at 9 pm)

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Full assurance to MCA and Gerakan – DAP has no intention whatsoever to eliminate MCA and Gerakan

I want to give a full assurance to MCA and Gerakan – DAP no intention whatsoever to eliminate MCA and Gerakan.

The placement of DAP candidates in Ayer Hitam, Teluk Intan and Labis is not because DAP intends to eliminate MCA and Gerakan, as DAP is fully aware that we are incapable of performing this feat, apart from the fact that it is never the intention or objective of DAP to eliminate MCA, Gerakan or any political party in the country.

No other political party can eliminate MCA or Gerakan, as only MCA itself can eliminate MCA, and Gerakan itself can eliminate the Gerakan, by adopting policies and measures Which deprives  them of all public support, because they have rendered themselves completely irrelevant and marginalized.

Can the DAP cause the MCA and the Gerakan leaders to adopt policies and  measures which make their political parties completely irrelevant or marginalized? No, unless the MCA and Gerakan leaders have become puppets or stooges of DAP.

The placement of DAP candidates in Ayer Hitam, Teluk Intan and Labis, as well as other constituencies contested by the DAP is prompted by one imperative – to help the Pakatan Harapan to  win at least 120 parliamentary seats in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 and end the uninterrupted UMNO/BN rule in Putrajaya as the Malaysian Government.

If Pakatan Harapan is to achieve the objective of replacing UMNO/BN as the Malaysian Government, it will have to overcome the many obstacles and undemocratic conditions of the 14th General Elections.

For instance, Bersih had said that in a worst-case scenario,  Najib could continue as Prime Minister and UMNO/BN continue as Malaysian Government in Putrajaya with 16.5 per cent  of the popular vote under the redelineation of electoral constituencies just before the dissolution of Parliament.

Policy analyst Lim Teck Ghee was even more pessimistic, estimating that Pakatan Harapan has only 10 per cent chance of toppling UMNOB/BN to form the next Malaysian Government in Putrajaya.

This is why Pakatan Harapan needs “game-changers” to overcome these undemocratic rules and conditions in the Malaysian electoral process.

The placement of DAP candidates is one such “game changer”, and another is the DAP leadership’s decision not to use the Rocket symbol but to use the  Pakatan Harapan common logo of PKR’s blue eyes to send out a clear and unmistakable message to all voters, including the 3.6 million UMNO members, the one million PAS members and the one million MCA members that in the 14GE, saving Malaysia from a rogue and kleptocratic state  is a higher patriotic duty than being members of a political party.

I am surprised that MCA and Gerakan leaders are panicking at the DAP placement of candidates, regarding this is as an effort by DAP to eliminate MCA and Gerakan.

DAP should feel flattered that MCA and Gerakan leaders believe that DAP can eliminate them, but no, DAP is incapable of eliminating them as only MCA and Gerakan are capable of eliminating themselves by making themselves completely irrelevant and marginalizedbecause irrelevant and marginalized policies and measures.

(Press Conference Statement at DAP Labis Branch to announce the DAP/Pakatan Harapan Candidate for Labis, Pang Hock Liong,on Wednesday, 18th April 2018 at 3 pm)

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Liow Tiong Lai must explain whether it is official MCA campaign strategy to spread the claim that there is nothing wrong with Najib’s 2.6 billion donation and the 1MDB scandal as Najib  had given back the RM2.6 billion to Malaysians

I am shocked to discover during my walkabout with the DAP candidate for Johor State Assembly seat, Tan Hong Pin that MCA propagandists are spreading the version that there is nothing wrong with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s RM2.6 billion donation in his personal banking accounts and the 1MDB scandal, especially as Najib had given back the RM2.6 billion to the people of Malaysia.

This is a monstrous multiple lie and falsehood, which is worse than the lie recently by the Barisan Nasional Strategic Communications Unit when responding to the FaceBook posting by former Cabinet Minister, Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, asking the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) to clarify if it had known about caretaker prime minister Najib Razak’s infamous RM2.6 billion donation, and how the department had dealt with it at the time.

The Barisan Nasional strategic communications team, which is headed by the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datu Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan, said that that Najib had returned most, if not all, of the RM2.6 billion donation he received in 2013.

This is a double lie, for Najib had not returned most, and definitely not all, of the RM2.6 billion Donation to Saudi royalty he received in 2013.

The BN strategic communications team recently claimed in response to the FaceBook posting by former Cabinet Minister, Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, asking the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) to clarify if it had known about caretaker prime minister Najib Razak’s infamous RM2.6 billion donation, and how the department had dealt with it at the time.

In reply, the BN strategic Communications team made the fantastic claim that Najib had returned most, if not all, of the RM2.6 billion donation, which at least, not as monstrous as the greater lie that Najib had distributed the RM2.6 billion back to Malaysians.

The claim that Najib had returned most, if not all, of the RM2.6 billion donation in 2013  was of course untrue, or Malaysia would not suffer the 3Is of infamy, ignominy and iniquity as a global kleptocracy!

But this is not as monstrous as what some MCA propagandists are saying on the ground, that Najib was in fact the greatest Malaysian philanthropist who had distributed the RM2.6 billion to Malaysians.

What has happened to the RM2.6 billion?

There are documentary evidence to show that Najib had received RM2.6 billion donation, not from any Saudi Arabian Royalty, but from 1MDB funds; and although RM2.1 billion was “returned” to the original donor, it was not to any Saudi Arabia royalty but  the 1MDB-linked TANORE bank account in Singapore, and that the RM2.1 billion “returned” monies were used to purchase the RM1 billion Equanimity luxury superyacht owned by Jho Low and seized by the Indonesian authorities in Bali in February and the RM144 million pink diamond necklace for the “wife of MO1”, among other expensive expenditures, including at least US$9.9 million on jewellery for Australian model Miranda Kerr, purchase of a Bombadier jet, muti-million purchases of artworks by Van Gogh and Claude Monet, etc.

MCA President, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai must explain whether it is official MCA campaign Strategy to spread the claim that there is nothing wrong with Najib’s 2.6 billion donation and the 1MDB scandal as Najib had given back the RM2.6 billion to Malaysians.

18th April 2018. Walkabout in Skudai

18th April 2018. Walkabout in Skudai

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Media Conference Statement by DAP leader Lim Kit Siang after a walkabout in Skudai on Wednesday, 18th April 2018 at 10 am
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PH should target winning 120 parliament seats in GE14 – 100 in Peninsular Malaysia and 20 in Sabah and Sarawak

112 parliament seats are needed in order to win a bare majority control of parliament.

PH should set a target of winning 120 parliament seats to show that a decisive majority of Malaysians no longer support a kleptocratic and corrupt Barisan Nasional (BN).

Is this target achievable?

Yes, I think it is. Especially if there is a Malaysian tsunami that will sweep across the nation bringing together Malays, Chinese, Indians, Ibans, Kadazans and others to vote against the BN and to strongly support Pakatan Harapan to form the next federal government.

In order to achieve this, PH must defend all 89 parliament seats won by the opposition in GE2013.

In addition, we must win another 31 out of the 56 marginal BN parliament seats in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak to reach 120 seats. This includes 4 key BN seats which were not considered marginal in GE2013 but are being contested by PH and opposition heavy weights namely Langkawi (Tun Dr. Mahathir), Pagoh (Tan Sri Muhyiddin), Semporna (Shafie Apdal – Warisan) and Ayer Hitam (Liew Chin Tong).

This means PH must win 55% of the marginal BN parliament seats (listed below).

PH should aim to win 100 parliament seats in Peninsular Malaysia and another 20 parliament seats in Sabah and Sarawak. (This would include parliaments seats won by Warisan in Sabah)

List of 52 Marginal BN Parliament Seats (Based on GE2013 results)

NEGERI

PARLIAMENT CODE

PARLIAMENT NAME

PERLIS

P002

KANGAR

PERLIS

P003

ARAU

KEDAH

P005

JERLUN

KEDAH

P011

PENDANG

KEDAH

P012

JERAI

KEDAH

P013

SIK

KEDAH

P014

MERBOK

KEDAH

P016

BALING

KEDAH

P018

KULIM-BANDAR BAHARU

KELANTAN

P026

KETEREH

KELANTAN

P027

TANAH MERAH

KELANTAN

P029

MACHANG

PULAU PINANG

P041

KEPALA BATAS

PULAU PINANG

P042

TASEK GELUGOR

PULAU PINANG

P053

BALIK PULAU

PERAK

P058

BAGAN SERAI

PERAK

P061

PADANG RENGAS

PERAK

P067

KUALA KANGSAR

PERAK

P075

BAGAN DATOK

PERAK

P077

TANJONG MALIM

PAHANG

P078

CAMERON HIGHLANDS

PAHANG

P081

JERANTUT

PAHANG

P089

BENTONG

PAHANG

P090

BERA

SELANGOR

P092

SABAK BERNAM

SELANGOR

P093

SUNGAI BESAR

SELANGOR

P094

HULU SELANGOR

SELANGOR

P096

KUALA SELANGOR

W.P. KUALA LUMPUR

P118

SETIAWANGSA

W.P. KUALA LUMPUR

P119

TITIWANGSA

JOHOR

P140

SEGAMAT

JOHOR

P141

SEKIJANG

JOHOR

P142

LABIS

JOHOR

P144

LEDANG

JOHOR

P146

MUAR

JOHOR

P158

TEBRAU

JOHOR

P159

PASIR GUDANG

JOHOR

P161

PULAI

SARAWAK

P192

MAS GADING

SARAWAK

P202

SRI AMAN

SARAWAK

P205

SARATOK

SARAWAK

P220

BARAM

SABAH

P168

KOTA MARUDU

SABAH

P169

KOTA BELUD

SABAH

P170

TUARAN

SABAH

P171

SEPANGGAR

SABAH

P177

BEAUFORT

SABAH

P179

RANAU

SABAH

P180

KENINGAU

SABAH

P181

TENOM

SABAH

P182

PENSIANGAN

SABAH

P190

TAWAU

4 BN safe seats which have become marginal because of unique circumstances

NEGERI

PARLIAMENT CODE

PARLIAMENT NAME

KEDAH

P004

LANGKAWI

JOHOR

P143

PAGOH

JOHOR

P148

AYER HITAM

SABAH

P189

SEMPORNA

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A DIY tip to MCA leadership to prevent MCA’s “elimination” – speak up on 1MDB scandal and demand that all ill-gotten gains including RM144 million pink diamond necklace  should be confiscated and returned to Malaysians

I gave a full assurance to MCA and Gerakan yesterday that the DAP has no intention or capability to eliminate MCA and Gerakan.

This is because no other political party can eliminate MCA or Gerakan, as only MCA itself can eliminate MCA, and Gerakan itself can eliminate the Gerakan, by adopting policies and measures which deprives them of all public support, because they have rendered themselves completely inconsequential, irrelevant and marginalized.

I asked how DAP can  cause the MCA and the Gerakan leaders to adopt policies and measures which would render MCA and Gerakan completely inconsequential, irrelevant or marginalized unless the MCA and Gerakan leaders have become puppets or stooges of DAP, which is even more unthinkable.

However, my assurance yesterday that the DAP had no intention to “eliminate” MCA and Gerakan and no political parties can eliminate MCA and Gerakan except by  their own suicide and self-destruction were  clearly not satisfactory or inadequate, as the MCA Johor leaders are planning a most unheard-of political gathering in Yong Peng tomorrow, entitled: “ANTI SIEGE-ELIMINATION TEAM JOHOR TOTAL OFFENSIVE RALLY”, and the publicity materials bear the MCA and Barisan Nasional logos with the photographs of MCA President, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai and the MCA Deputy President Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong.

The “ANTI SIEGE-ELIMINATION TEAM JOHORE TOTAL OFFENSIVE RALLY” conjures up images of the “shock-and-awe” strategy employed during the 2003 Iraq War through the use of overwhelming power and spectacular display of force designed to  destroy the enemy’s will to fight.

What is MCA TEAM JOHOR referring to – a super force with dazzling power using “shock-and-awe” tactics to carry out a siege-and-elimination strategy in the Malaysian political environment?

Are the MCA Johor leaders referring to the DAP?  We are very flattered, for it has never entered into our minds  to eliminate MCA or that we have the capability to  carry out a “shock-and-awe” strategy to subdue the MCA.

There is only one political party in the country which might have the resources and capability to mount such a “siege-elimination” strategy using “awe-and-shock” tactics – and that political party is Big Brother UMNO.

Is MCA Johore’s “Anti-Siege-Elimination Team Johore Total OFFENSIVE RALLY” in Yong Peng directed at UMNO – especially over its reluctance to return to MCA all the parliamentry constituencies which MCA had lent to UMNO in previous general elections?

It is for the MCA leaders  to explain what its rally in Yong Peng  tomorrow is all about.

However, I would like to give MCA President, Liow Tiong Lai and the MCA Deputy President, Wee Ka Siong a free DIY tip as to how MCA can ensure that it could not be “eliminated” under any circumstances.

All that the MCA leadership needs to do is to speak up, loud and clear, on the 1MDB scandal which has brought shame, humiliation and infamy to Malaysians as Malaysia is regarded worldwide as a global kleptocracy in the past three years, demand that Najib  give Malaysians and the world a full accounting for one of the greatest kleptocratic scandals  in the world and that all ill-gotten gains from the 1MDB kleptocracy  including RM144 million pink diamond necklace  should be confiscated and returned to Malaysians

Would the MCA leaders dare to act on this DIY advice – say, at the “ANTI SIEGE-ELIMINATION JOHOR TEAM TOTAL OFFENSIVE RALLY” in Yong Peng Tomorrow?

(Media Statement in Gelang Patah on Thursday, 19th April 2018)

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No other political party can eliminate MCA and Gerakan – as political parties can only commit suicide or self-destruct from their own betrayal of their founding principles

I gave an assurance to MCA and Gerakan at the  media conference in Labis earlier this evening to announce the DAP/Pakatan Harapan parliamentary candidate for Labis, Pang Hock Liong, that DAP has no intention whatsoever to eliminate MCA and Gerakan, stressing that no other political party can eliminate MCA and Gerakan, as political parties  cannot be eliminated by other political parties but can only commit suicide or self-destruct because of their own betrayal of their founding principles.

The intention and objective of the DAP in the 14th General Election is to defeat the UMNO/BN so that for the first in the nation’s 61-year history, a new Government from Pakatan Harapan could be formed in Putrajaya, to Save Malaysia from becoming a bankrupt, rogue and kleptocratic state by resetting Malaysia’s nation building directions and policies for Malaysia to become a world top-class nation.

MCA and Gerakan leaders baby-crying that the DAP wants to “eliminate” them is an index of how inconsequential,  irrelevant and marginalized both political parties have been reduced to from their great days in the past.

Will MCA and Gerakan be eliminated if the UMNO/BN is defeated in the 14th General Election and Pakatan Harapan forms the new Malaysian Government in Putrajaya?

In other countries, incumbent political parties which had governed in the first few decades of nationhood had sprung back to government and power after a period in the opposition wilderness, as happened in Japan, Taiwan and India.

Will MCA and Gerakan be “eliminated” from the Malaysian political scene if UMNO/BN is defeated in the 14th General Election?

If so, a political party which is so inconsequential, irrelevant, marginalized and lack the resilience and conviction to reform to be relevant and meaningful to the people’s lives and the cause of the nation do not deserve to exist!

Will UMNO be “eliminated” and become history, only to come alive in the museums, if it is defeated in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018?

I do not believe so. It will indeed do UMNO, MCA and Gerakan a lot of good for them to spend some time in the Opposition – for their leaders to come down to the ground from their high horses and speak the people’s language rather than those of the high-and-mighty!

The placement of DAP candidates in Ayer Hitam, Teluk Intan and Labis, as well as other constituencies contested by the DAP is prompted by one imperative – to help Pakatan Harapan to  win at least 120 parliamentary seats in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 and end the uninterrupted UMNO/BN rule in Putrajaya as the Malaysian Government.

The Filipinos changed their president on May 9, 2016 and the South Koreans changed their President on May 9, 2017.  On May 9, 2018, Malaysians will decide whether they can change the Prime Minister and usher in a new Malaysia with Tun Mahathir as seventh Prime Minister and Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as the Deputy Prime Minister, paving the way for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to be Malaysia’s eighth Prime Minister.

Bersih had said that in a worst-case scenario,  Najib could continue as Prime Minister and UMNO/BN continue as Malaysian Government in Putrajaya with 16.5 per cent  of the popular vote under the nation’s worst gerrymandering in the  redelineation of electoral constituencies just before the dissolution of Parliament.

Policy analyst Lim Teck Ghee was even more pessimistic, estimating that Pakatan Harapan has only 10 per cent chance of toppling UMNOB/BN to form the next Malaysian Government in Putrajaya.

This is why Pakatan Harapan needs “game-changers” to overcome these undemocratic rules and conditions in the 14GE in the Malaysian electoral process.

The placement of DAP leaders in high-risk constituencies, like Ayer Hitam, Teluk Intan, Labis and other constituencies, is one such “game-changer”.

Other “game-changers” in the 14GE are:

1. Tun Mahathir leading Pakatan Harapan and the charge to Save Malaysia from the trajectory towards a bankrupt, rogue and kleptoratic state; and  to regain international esteem, respect and admiration for Malaysia as a model top world-class nation; and

2. DAP leadership’s decision not to use the Rocket symbol but to use the  Pakatan Harapan common logo of PKR’s blue eyes to send out a clear and unmistakable message to all voters, including the 3.6 million UMNO members, the one million PASmembers and the one million MCA members that in the 14GE, saving Malaysia from a rogue and kleptocratic state  is a higher patriotic duty than membership of any political party.

(Speech at the launching of the DAP Johor Jaya election centre in Plentong, Johor Baru on Wednesday, 18th April 2018 at 10 pm)

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The truth of 1MDB scandal  is that Najib is trying to create the  greatest conundrum in the world by hiding the truth about the 1MDB scandal from Malaysians and the world

The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak slammed DAP for dropping Dr. Tan Seng Giaw simply for speaking the truth on 1MDB.

Two questions come to mind: firstly, how does Najib know that the reason why Seng Giaw is not re-contesting in Kepong is because of 1MDB?

Secondly, it is very rich for Najib to talk about the “truth” of 1MDB, when he is trying to create the greatest conundrum  in Malaysia and the world by hiding the truth from Malaysians and the world  about the truth of the 1MDB scandal.

On 25th March, I  emailed Najib to ask the Prime Minister to fix a public event any place, any day, any time to  show me where in the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC ) Report on 1MDB said he was  absolved of any wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal which had transformed Malaysia overnight into a global kleptocracy

Some four weeks have passed and I have not received any reply from Najib. This is most surprising, as I am offering him an opportunity to put me to public shame by reading out the chapter and verse in the PAC Report on the 1MDB scandal where the PAC absolved him of any wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal.

Why was there absolute silence from Najib in the past four weeks to my email to name the place, date and time for him to read out the chapter and verse in the PAC Report which cleared him of any wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal – unless his claim of being cleared by the PAC Report is untrue and nothing but fake news?

I renew my offer to Najib to name the place, date and time for me to attend a public event and suffer the public humiliation when he reads out the chapter and verse in the PAC Report clearing him of any wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal?

I do not expect Najib to respond for he is not so stupid as not to know that he had created fake news which I could easily expose during my public confrontation with Najib!

(Media Conference Statement in Skudai after walkabout on Thursday, 19th April 2018 at 10 am)

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Regret at Najib’s “makhluk” language and call for decent, honest and civil campaigning for the 14th General Elections

It is most regrettable that even before the official start of the 14th General Elections Campaign on Nomination Day on April 28, the Prime Minister and Barisan Nasional Chairman, Datuk Seri Najib Razak has already resorted to gutter politics using the “makhluk” language when referring to opponents.

At the PRIMA groundbreaking ceremony in  Teluk Intan on Wednesday, Najib warned that a makhluk (creature) who had “a penchant for creating fake news” was contesting in Teluk Intan against the Minister President of Gerakan Mah Siew Keong, clearly referring to Perak DAP chief Ng Kor Ming, who will be carrying the DAP/Pakatan Harapan standard in Teluk Intan in the 14GE.

Najib had committed two wrongs: firstly, in using deplorable language against political opponents in the 14GE and therefore setting the worst possible example for other UMNO/BN politicians; and secondly, accusing others of “creating” fake news when he is the greatest manufacturer of fake news in the country.

I challenge Najib to a public event, where he could list out the ten fake news I had been responsible since he became Prime Minister in April 2009, while I will list out the ten fake news which he had personally created and must be held responsible in the past nine years of his premiership.

Is Najib prepared for such a public event, if so, just name the place, date and time and I will be there.

May be this will be the best way to address the problem of fake news, which the UMNO/BN leaders, propagandists and quinoa cybertroopers are concocting  to demonise and defame Pakatan Harapan and civil society leaders, while relying on the Anti-Fake News Act to censor true reports about abuses of power and corruption scandals, like the world-infamous 1MDB money-laundering scandal, with threats of draconian penalties of RM500,000 fine, six years’ jail or both.

I call for the rejection of uncouth, ill-mannered and low-class campaigning. I call for decent, honest and civil campaigning in the 14th General Election to demonstrate to Malaysians and the world that Malaysians do not have to resort to gutter politics and  the politics of race, religion, hate and fear to solicit votes.

Recent events have shown that good governance principles have beenthrown to the winds  in the run-up to the 14th General Elections.

The most glaring case is the questioning by UMNO veteran leaders like Tan Sri Rais Yatim and Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz about the anomalous position of Najib’s UMNO, which should now be automatically considered illegal  due to the delay in holding party polls.

Clearly, the Registrar of Societies (RoS) had no power to give a second extension for the postponement of UMNO party polls, and the UMNO Secretary-General Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor had relied on the wrong set of laws to justify the postponement.

Rafidah had even likened Umno to a “headless chicken” with no members and no executive powers, and claimed that its president Najib Abdul Razak cannot be sworn in as the prime minister should BN win GE14 as the party he leads is no longer “legal.”

This is why Rais Yatim has urged the Umno supreme council to seek a court declaration on whether it has violated its constitution by delaying its polls.

UMNO leader should take serious heed of Rais advice, when the former Cabinet Minister said:

“Umno top leaders cannot keep quiet, they must get accurate legal guidance. If they do not do this, they would be seen as not taking the issue of the party’s constitution seriously”.

Rais said it was clear Umno must hold its elections by today, April 19 as Umno had held its last party elections on October 19, 2013.

According to Clause 9.3 of the party’s constitution, the supreme council is required to hold its polls every three years, with a further extension of 18 months allowed under Clause 10.16.

Do we have a Registrar of Societies who acts according to the law and not on the diktat of UMNO government-of-the-day?

Do we now have a fake UMNO apart from a kleptocraic Malaysia – all thanks to the nine-year premiership of Najib Razak?

(Media Conference Statement after walkabout in Kangkar Pulai, Johor on Friday, 20th April 2018 at 9 am)

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RoS should have issued a 30-day provisional dissolution order to both  UMNO and Barisan Nasional even before issuing such an order to PPBM on eve of dissolution of Parliament

The Registrar of Societies should have issued a 30-day provisional dissolution order to both UMNO and Barisan Nasional even before issuing such an order to PPBM (Bersatu) on the eve of dissolution of Parliament early this month.

Beginning today, UMNO has become an illegal political party.

It has violated its own party constitution which requires that election for the UMNO Supreme Council should be held once in three years.

As the UMNO Supreme Council elections were last held on Oct. 19, 2013, the new election to the UMNO Supreme Council should have been held by Oct. 19, 2016.

However, the UMNO Supreme Council had the powers under the UMNO Constitution to extend UMNO Supreme Council election by 18 months because of impending general elections – which ends on April 19, 2018.

However, the UMNO/BN government has got the Registrar of Societies (RoS) to give another extension for the holding of election to the UMNO Supreme Council until 19th April 2019, which is illegal and a gross misuse of power, as the RoS has no such  powers whether under the UMNO constitution or the Societies Act to grant such an extension.

This means that from today, UMNO has become an illegal political Party. This also means that Barisan Nasional has become an illegal political coalition, as one of its component parties has become an Illegal political party.

This would mean that in the 14th General Elections, the BN symbol “daching” cannot be used, for the “daching” has become illegal as well.

Two veteran UMNO leaders, who were long-time Cabinet Ministers, namely Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz and Tan Sri Rais Yatim have publicly stated that the RoS had no powers to give a further extension for the election of UMNO Supreme Council to April 19, 2019 and that UMNO has today become an illegal political party.

Does the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak accept the rule of law and announce that  all BN candidates will be not be using the Barisan Nasional logo of daching, but the logo of one of the BN component parties – that of MCA, Gerakan or MIC? – provided it had been registered with the Election Commission?

(Speech by DAP Lim Kit Siang at the DAP ceramah kopitiam in Gelang Patah on Friday, 20th April 2018 at 10 am)

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Liow Tiong Lai should cite one stance where MCA has changed Since his “Citizen” National Day video, whether MCA had ever Protested against the 1MDB scandal in government?

MCA President Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said that  I am a “lost man” without any direction as my strategy had backfired.

I congratulate Liow for his political acumen for being able to read my political strategy, and if his analysis is true that I am a “lost man”, he should be the happiest man in Malaysian politics instead of leading a most unprecedented MCA
“Anti-Siege/Elimination Total Offensive”
Rally in Yong Peng yesterday fighting a last battle of survival.

Liow alleges that the DAP wants to kill off MCA. He is grossly mistaken MCA will kill off itself, by betraying the very objectives and principles for which MCA was founded.

This was why MCA was reduced from golden age in the past to a 7/11 party in the last general elections, winning only seven parliamentary and eleven state assembly seats.

I would advise Liow to revisit his “
Citizens
” National Day Video last year and act as a brave citizen of Malaysia and not as a cringing MP and Minister solely dependent on UMNO’s Malay votes.

In the “
Citizens
” video, Liow the Minister admitted to Liow the citizen:

“The last ten years have been hard for everyone. I know we haven’t done enough”.

Was Liow the Minister speaking from the heart? If so, could he list out the things the MCA Ministers and leaders had not “done enough” and had remedied since the National Day video?

The video tried to present the dilemma and malaise Malaysians had been feeling for the past decade or so, the great disappointment over the state of the nation – rampant corruption, political instability and a crippling economy.

Had Liow and the two MCA Ministers ever raised the 1MDB scandal in Cabinet since the “
Citizens
” video?

Would Liow agree that these problems must be addressed and the nation’s infamy and ignominy as a “global kleptocracy”  be allowed to continue and must be the No. 1 issue in the 14th General Election?

In the “
Citizens
” video, Liow the politician came face-to-face with Citizen Liow, who angrily asked him,
 “What do you want?”
 to which Liow replied,
 “I know, you think I’m irrelevant, nothing I do is good enough. Of course I’m hurt by that, but now is not the time to discuss that.”

Liow the Minister said:
 “I’m only here to ask you to not give up on this country.

“Running the country isn’t easy. But the starting point of any solution is never give up hope.”

Liow the Minister said:

“The dream of Malaysia is beautiful and worthy of our perseverance.

“I believe every citizen and leader wish for a better Malaysia. Provided you follow your conscience, I don’t mind which party you support. I earnestly urge you to, once again, believe in Malaysia.”

Liow must state clearly and unequivocally whether he is sincere in what he said in the video, that provided Malaysians, including MCA members, follow their conscience in their Malaysian dream, he does not mind which political party they support and vote in the 14th General Election.

Liow should cite one stance where MCA has changed since his “
Citizen
” National Day video, whether MCA had ever protested against the 1MDB scandal in government?

I call on Malaysians, including MCA members, not to lose hope, and in the 14GE to unite with all Malaysians, whether MCA, UMNO, Gerakan, MIC or even PAS members, for the achievement of the Malaysian Dream by voting for a change of Federal Government in Putrajaya for Malaysia to take the first step to become a normal democracy – an integral part of the Malaysian Dream.

(Media Conference Statement by DAP Lim Kit Siang after a walkabout in Skudai on Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 10 am)

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Pakatan Harapan Governmenr in Putrajaya will auction the RM144 million pink diamond necklace to return its proceeds to Malaysian taxpayers

The wife of Prime Minister, Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor herself raised the subject of her diamond collection from the 1MDB scandal.

Speaking to BN women members in Lembah Pantai yesterday, she accused PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli of attempting to trap her husband, caretaker prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, and her over the diamond ring issue.

She said that Rafizi only told “half the story and half-truths”.

Rosmah maintained that she had only viewed the ring but did not purchase it.

She said; “You want to know about the ring? They (critics) said I have a ring but they sometimes say it’s USD8 million, USD16 million, USD24 million and even USD86 million.

“I said you better decide how much my ring is. They talk about things they don’t know.

“(When they brought in the ring) it was only meant for viewing, not for purchasing. So I looked at it and said it was very nice. But I said ‘you better send it back’.”

Malaysians must thank Rosmah for reminding them about the diamond ring, as I believe most Malaysians have forgotten about it.  What they remember is the infamous US$27.3 million (RM144 million)  22-carat rare pink diamond set in a necklace, which the US Department of Justice  alleged was bought by Malaysian billionaire, Low Taek Jho or Jho Low, the other “king pin” of the 1MDB scandal, with stolen 1MDB money for the wife of “Malaysian Official 1” (MO1).

We must thank the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department and the director of Barsian Nasional Strategic Communications Unit, Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan for admitting to the whole world in a BBC interview that “MO1” is none other than Najib Razak and therefore the beneficiary of the US$27.3 million 22-carat pink diamond necklace is none other than Rosmah Mansor.

Why did Rosmah Manson talk about the USD8 million diamond ring and not about the USD27.3 22-carat pink diamond necklace?

Rosmah’s silence on the pink diamond necklace does nor cast her in a favourable light, and since she has spoken up on the USD8 million diamond ring issue, let us hear from her on the USD27.3 million pink diamond necklace expose.

If Pakatan Harapan  forms the Malaysian Government in Putrajaya on May 9, we  will demand the return to Malaysians all the ill-gotten gains from the 1MDB proceeds, including the auctioning of the USD23.7 million pink diamond necklace and the RM1 billion Equanimity luxury superyacht impounded in Bali in February.

(Speech at DAP Bakri General Election Preparatory Dinner in Muar on Friday, 20th April 2018 at 8 pm)

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Rosmah Mansor  has only highlighted the basic flaw and failure of the  Malaysian education system when the Prime Minister himself has not been sufficiently imbued with the basic moral and religious  values not to tell lies or to steal

The wife of the Prime Minister, Datuk Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor yesterday revealed  that one of the reasons she started the Permata programme for children was because she wanted to teach them to be respectful of their elders, parents and teachers  and singled out the PKR Vide President Nurul Izzah as a person lacking such qualities.

I leave to Nurul to respond to Rosmah’s allegation but Rosmah has only highlighted the  basic flaw and failure of the Malaysian education system when the Prime Minister himself has not been sufficiently imbued with basic moral and religious  values  not to tell lies or to steal!

The two notorious “achievements” of Najib are firstly, to enact the world’s first anti-fake news law, not to combat lies, fake news and false information but to censor exposes about UMNO/BN abuses of power and corruption, in particular the international multi-billion 1MDB money-laundering scandal; and secondly, giving Malaysia’s the international infamy and ignominy of a global kleptocracy.

If every Malaysian had been properly brought up by our educational system to have the basic moral and religious values of not telling lies and not to steal the property of others, these two notorious events would not have occurred in Malaysia at all.

On 25th March, I emailed Najib to ask the Prime Minister to fix a public event any place, any day, any time to show me where in the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC ) Report on 1MDB said he was absolved of any wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal.

Some four weeks have passed and I have not received any reply from Najib. This is most surprising, as I am offering him an opportunity to put me to public shame by reading out the chapter and verse in the PAC Report on the 1MDB scandal where the PAC absolved him of any wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal.

Yesterday, I renewed my offer to Najib to name the place, date and time for me to attend a public event and suffer the public humiliation when he reads out the chapter and verse in the PAC Report clearing him of any wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal.

The absolute silence from Najib in the past four weeks to my email  and renewal of my challenge for him to name the place, date and time for him to  read out the chapter and verse in the PAC Report which cleared him of any wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal is the latest  proof that our education system has failed to bring up a Prime Minister  who is deeply moored in the moral and religious teaching not to tell lies or untruths, nor to part of a major international  corruption racket.

Horror of horrors, the Prime Minister has committed another basic moral and religious teaching that one should not steal – to the extent that Malaysia is now regarded worldwide as a global kleptocracy.

What has Najib got to say about these developments?

(Speech at DAP Kulai Ceramah  in Kulai on Friday, 20th April 2018 at 11  pm)

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Double standard treatment of the case of UMNO/BN as illegal political parties is the last straw why the UMNO/BN must be replaced by Pakatan Harapan as Malaysian and Johore state governments on May 9

The double standard treatment of the case of UMNO/BN as illegal political parties is the last straw why the UMNO/BN must be replaced by Pakatan Harapan as the Malaysian Government in Putrajaya and Johore government in Nusajaya in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018.

On the eve of dissolution of Parliament on April 7, 2018, PPBM (Bersatu) was issued with a 30-day provisional dissolution order by the UMNO/BN Government through the  Registrar of Societies (RoS), forbidding Bersatu from holding any political activities.

Where were  the concepts of justice, good governance and the rule of law when in fact, it was  UMNO/Barisan Nasional which should be issued with a provision dissolution order by the Registrar of Societies as UMNO had violated its own party constitution on election of UMNO Supreme Council elections?

DAP was harassed for five years on the baseless ground that the DAP was an illegal political party based on the false  and baseless premise that  our Central Executive Committee elections in December 2012 was improper and defective, when it was in fact fully proper, legal  and in accordance with the DAP constitution.

Now, Bersatu is slapped with a 30-day provisional dissolution order when it is UMNO/BN which should now be declared as illegal political parties under the Societies Act 1966.

Under Clause 10 of the UMNO party constitution, UMNO is required to hold UMNO Supreme Council elections once every three years, but the UMNO Supreme Council has the power to give an 18-month extension under special circumstances, like preparing for the 14th General Election.

The last UMNO triennial elections were held on Oct. 20, 2013, which means that UMNO Supreme Council elections must be held by Oct. 19, 2016 to comply with the three-year requirement or by April 19, 2018, if there is a  18-month extension decided by the UMNO Supreme Council.

There was however no UMNO Supreme Council elections by April 19, 2018, and this fatal violation of the UMNO Constitution cannot be cured, overcome or rescued in any manner by the Registrar of Societies.

I have studied Section 3A of the Societies Act, 1966, which had been quoted by the UMNO Secretary-General Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor as vesting powers on the Registrar of Societies to give a further year-long extension till April 19, 2019 to hold UMNO Supreme Council elections.

Does Tengku Adnan understand English or Bahasa Malaysia, as it is very plain that Section 3A of the Societies Act does not give the Registrar of Societies any such powers.

This means that since last Friday, April 20, 2018, UMNO and Barisan Nasional have become illegal political parties since  and the Barisan Nasional logo of daching cannot be used in the 14th General Election Nomination Day next Saturday on April 28, 2018.

Umno supreme council member Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said there is nothing wrong with the Registrar of Societies (ROS) granting Umno a second extension until 2019 to hold the party elections, arguing the laws are only made by humans, not God.

I expect such a preposterous argument to come from  an illiterates or ignoramus party hack, and it is most shocking that it has come from a trained lawyer like Nazri.

Yes, the Societies Act is a man-made law and not God’s law but any amendment to such man-made law must go through the proper process – in this case, by Parliament.

If the Societies Act does not give the Registrar of Societies  powers to extend UMNO Supreme Council elections beyond April 20, 2018, why is Nazri demanding that UMNO/BN government should be treated as if it is  God,  capable of amending laws at its whim and fancy, without having to go first to Parliament?

If this is the case, why hold general elections to elect a Parliament, when the UMNO/BN government has God-like powers to amend laws without any parliamentary debate and approval?

The double-standard treatment in the case of UMNO/BN as illegal political parties, making Parliament superfluous by granting Najib God-like powers to change laws as and when he likes, is the last straw why 15 million Malaysian voters on May 9 should elect Pakatan Harapan to replace UMNO/BN to be the Malaysian and Johore governments, before Malaysia is regarded by the world as a rogue state apart from being a kleptocratic state.

(Speech at Pakatan Harapan ceramah at Taman University, Skudai on Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 10.30 pm)

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Najib’s UMNO/BN has no respect for rule of law

The controversy over the legality of UMNO and Barisan Nasional, and whether the BN logo of daching can be used in the 14th General Elections, shows that the UMNO/BN of Najib Razak no more respects the rule of law.

The position of UMNO/BN, both of which have become illegal political organisations since yesterday as UMNO, the backbone of BN, is because UMNO has  violated its own party constitution in not holding UMNO Supreme Council elections for  54 months.

Under Clause 10 of the UMNO party constitution, UMNO is required to hold UMNO Supreme Council elections once every three years, but the UMNO Supreme Council has the power to give an 18-month extension under special circumstances, like preparing for the 14th General Election.

As UMNO President, Datuk Seri Najib Razak said at a media conference on June 26, 2015:

“According to Article 10.16 of the Umno constitution, the supreme council has the right to postpone elections for its supreme council, divisions and branches.

“This postponement cannot exceed 18 months from the date the elections were supposed to be held.”

The last UMNO triennial elections were held on Oct. 20, 2013, which means that UMNO Supreme Council elections must be held by Oct. 19, 2016 to comply with the three-year requirement or by April 19, 2018, if there is a  18-month extension decided by the UMNO Supreme Council.

There was however no UMNO Supreme Council elections by April 19, 2018, and this fatal violation of the UMNO Constitution cannot be cured, overcome or rescued in any manner by the Registrar of Societies.

I have studied Section 3A of the Societies Act, 1966, which had been quoted by the UMNO Secretary-General Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor as vesting powers on the Registrar of Societies to give a further year-long extension till April 19, 2019 to hold UMNO Supreme Council elections.

Does Tengku Adnan understand English or Bahasa Malaysia, as it is very plain that Section 3A of the Societies Act does not give the Registrar of Societies any such powers.

This means that UMNO and Barisan Nasional have become illegal political parties since yesterday and the Barisan Nasional logo of daching cannot be used in the 14th General Election Nomination Day next Saturday on April 28, 2018.

Umno supreme council member Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said there is nothing wrong with the Registrar of Societies (ROS) granting Umno a second extension until 2019 to hold the party elections, arguing the laws are only made by humans, not God.

I expect such a preposterous argument to come from  an illiterates or ignoramus party hack, and it is most shocking that it has come from a trained lawyer like Nazri.

Yes, the Societies Act is a man-made law and not God’s law but any amendment to such man-made law must go through the proper process – in this case, by Parliament.

if the Socieities Act does not give the Registrar of Societies  powers to extend UMNO Supreme Council elections beyond April 20, 2018, why is Nazri demanding that UMNO/BN government should be treated as if it is  God,  capable of amending laws at its whim and fancy?

If this is the case, why hold general elections to elect a Parliament, when the UMNO/BN government has God-like powers to amend laws without any parliamentary debate and approval?

(Speech at DAP kopitiam ceramah in Skudai on Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 5 pm)

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UMNO has become an illegal political party because Najib was indecisive and hesitant as when to hold 14GE, which involves very high personal  stakes for him

UMNO has become an illegal political party because Datuk Seri Najib Razak, Prime Minister and President of UMNO, was abnormally indecisive and hesitant when to hold the 14th General Election, which involves very high personal stakes for him.

Under the UMNO party constitution, UMNO is required to hold UMNO Supreme Council elections once every three years, but the UMNO Supreme Council has the power to give an 18-month extension under special circumstances, like preparing for the 14th General Election.

The last UMNO triennial elections were held on Oct. 20, 2013, which means that UMNO Supreme Council elections must be held by Oct. 19, 2016 to comply with the three-year requirement or by April 19, 2018, if there is a  18-month extension decided by the UMNO Supreme Council.

On June 26, 2015, Najib announced that the UMNO Supreme Council had decided to put off party elections due in October 2016 by 18 months.

He said:

“According to Article 10.16 of the Umno constitution, the supreme council has the right to postpone elections for its supreme council, divisions and branches.

“This postponement cannot exceed 18 months from the date the elections were supposed to be held”, i.e. by 19th April 2018.

There was however no UMNO Supreme Council elections by April 19, 2018, and this fatal violation of the UMNO Constitution cannot be cured, overcome or rescued in any manner by the Registrar of Societies.

It is clear that all this chop-and-change as to when to hold UMNO Supreme Coucil elections was all because of the extraordinary indecisiveness of Najib to decide when to hold the 14th General Elections.

When the UMNO Supreme Council decided in June 2015 to extend UMNO Supreme Council elections by 18 months, the date of the  expected  14th general elections was end- 2016 or early-2017, which would be after the three-year expiry date for UMNO Supreme Council elections in Oct. 2016.

If there were no 18-month extension, UMNO leaders from branch, divisional to national levels, would be more interested in 2015 and 2016 to prepare for UMNO party elections so that they could get elected into important posts which would have an important bearing as to whether they could become UMNO candidates, whether for MP or State Assembly representative.

In retrospect, the best time for Najib to hold the 14th GE would have been in 2016, after the BN streak of victories in the Sarawak state general elections and two parliamentary by-elections in Kuala Kangsar and Sungai Besar. Furthermore, PPBM or Bersatu was only formed in September 2016

But like Hamlet, Najib was stricken by the “To Be or Not To Be” syndrome, and 2016 came and went without any dissolution of Parliament and 14th General Elections.

Najib’s extraordinary indecisiveness as to when to hold the 14GE went on for the whole year of 2017, and Parliament was only dissolved on April 7, 2018 and 14GE Polling Day fixed for May 9, 2018.

But this was after the cut-off date for the holding of UMNO Supreme Council elections by April 19, 2018,  and this fatal violation of the UMNO Constitution cannot be cured, overcome or rescued in any manner by the Registrar of Societies.

I have studied Section 3A of the Societies Act, 1966, which had been quoted by the UMNO Secretary-General Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor as vesting powers on the Registrar of Societies to give a further year-long extension for UMNO Supreme Council elections  till April 19, 2019.

“3A. In addition to the powers, duties and functions conferred on the Registrar by this Act and any regulations made thereunder, the Registrar shall have and may exercise all such powers, discharge all such duties and perform all such functions as may be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to and carrying out the provisions of this Act.”

Does Tengku Adnan understand English or Bahasa Malaysia, as it is very plain that Section 3A of the Societies Act does not give the Registrar of Societies any such powers.

This means that UMNO and Barisan Nasional have become illegal political parties since yesterday and the Barisan Nasional logo of daching cannot be used in the 14th General Election Nomination Day next Saturday on April 28, 2018.

(Speech at kopiiam ceramah at Kampong Batu Lapan Setengah, Skudai on Sunday, 22nd April 2018 at 9 a.m.)

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Could the 14GE on May 9 be subsequently declared by the courts as illegal, null and void as a result of the UMNO/BN government’s  flouting of the rule of law on UMNO as an illegal political party from April 20?

An intriguing question has arisen in the run-up to the 14th General Election, with nomination fixed this Saturday, 28th April 2018 and Polling on Wednesday, 9th May, 2018.

Could the 14GE on May 9 be subsequently declared by the courts as illegal, null and void as a result of the UMNO/BN government’s  flouting of the rule of law on UMNO as an illegal political party from April 20?

The 16 Umno members who had taken legal action to challenge the validity of Umno as a political party for postponing the party election had been sacked summarily  from UMNO, and they have announced filing contempt proceeding to challenge their sacking from UMNO.

The action filed by the 16 is on  the basis that the Umno Supreme Council had breached Article 10.16 of the party’s constitution in delaying its party elections until next year.

I have discussed with senior lawyers on the matter, and they are quite unanimous in the view that the law is very clear that UMNO is today an illegal political party.

As a result, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, is an illegal UMNO President as well as illegal President of the Barisan Nasional coalition. Will UMNO’s illegality also extend to Barisn Nasional’s illegality?

Under the circumstances, the question that must be asked is whether the legality of the  14th General Election would be affected if UMNO and Barisan Nasional are subsequently declared by the courts as illegal political entities after April 20, 2018 but both are allowed to take part in the 14th General Elections?

Be that as it may, these mind-boggling political developments have presented MCA with an unprecedented opportunity.

Instead of being political cry-babies going around with the imaginary complaint that DAP wants to “besiege and eliminate” MCA –  which is the reason for MCA holding the ridiculous  “Johor team all out attack, anti-encirclement mega rally” in Yong Peng on Friday – MCA leaders should now stand up for MCA dignity.

MCA leaders should know that because of its own wrongdoings, UMNO has become  an illegal political party although it is argued that the illegality of UMNO does not extend to making the Barisan Nasional an  illegal political coalition.

Even so, the  BN coalition with 13 component parties has become a coalition with 12 component parties, as a result of the illegal status of UMNO.

One consequence of UMNO’s illegality must be the disqualification of Najib as BN President, for the political party which he heads, UMNO, is an illegal political party.

Would MCA dare to requisition an emergency meeting of Barisan Nasional Supreme Council for the MCA President to be appointed BN President, now that UMNO has become an illegal party and Najib should be disqualified as UMNO and BN President, or will the MCA leaders prefer the role akin to the three monkeys who have eyes that see not, ears that hear not and mouth that speak not?

(Speech 2 at the DAP Iskandar Puteri General Elections fund-raising dinner in Skudai, Johor Baru on Sunday, April 22, 2018 at  11 pm)

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Najib is showing signs of panic over likely outcome of the 14th GE

I am surprised that the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak is showing signs of panic over the likely outcome in the 14th General Election on May 9.

I think he is rattled by the unexpected fall-outs over UMNO becoming an illegal political party, as all informed Malaysians cannot accept the contention that the Registrar of Societies have the power to extend for another 12 months until April 19, 2019 for UMNO Supreme Council elections to be held.

As veteran UMNO leader, Tan Sri Rais Yatim, had said, the Registrar of Societies is not the ultimate authority to determine or usurp the power of Umno’s constitution.

Rais has rightly asked: “Can the RoS do away with a party’s constitution and give rights that are not in the constitution?”

There is no good lawyer in the country who will contend that the RoS has powers to give another 12-month extension after April 2019, as clearly  any such extension by the RoS is unlawful, unconstitutional and invalid.

Another veteran UMNO leader, Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz also contends that the RoS has no power to give such an extension, and likened  UMNO to a “headless chicken” with no members and no executive powers.

She said that Najib Razak cannot be sworn in as the Prime Minister should BN win the 14GE as the UMNO that  he leads is no longer “legal”.

UMNO’s position as an illegal political party is not the only UMNO/BN strategy which had gone terribly wrong in the 14th general election campaign.

A centerpiece of the UMNO/BN propaganda campaign in the 14GE was to knock Tun Mahathir and myself out in one blow – accusing Mahathir as merely my stooge and lackey to pave the way for me to become the Prime Minister of Malaysia when Pakatan Harapan wins the 14GE.

But this devilish strategy was defanged and neutralized  when the Pakatan Harapan Presidential Council announced on January 7, 2018 that Tun Mahahtir will be the seventh Prime Minister with Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as the Deputy Prime Minister, to be followed by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia.

For three months, the UMNO leaders, propagandist and quinoa cybertroopers were at a loss as to how to propagate the lies and falsehood that Mahathir is only my stooge and lackey and that DAP will be the “master” in Pakatan Harapan.

It is understandable though still inexcusable that the UMNO leaders, propagandists and quinoa cybertroopers pounced on the announcement by the DAP Secretary-General and Chief Minister of Penang Lim Guan Eng that if DAP/PH wins the  Ayer Hitam and Teluk Intan parliamentary contests, DAP’s Liew Chin Tong and Nga Kor Ming will become Ministers in the new Pakatan Harapan government.

Guan Eng’s statement was “manna from heaven” to the UMNO leaders, propagandists and quinoa cybertroopers, for they can  now distort  Guan Eng’s statements as showing that the DAP leaders are “arrogant” and “Big Brother in Pakatan Harapan”.

UMNO Vice President Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Hashim for instance jumped in and said that “If Dr. Mahathir is dreaming to be the prime minister again, then it should not be Lim Guan Eng who decide on the Cabinet”.

In actual fact, Guan Eng was not acting in any arrogant manner, but was  being defensive, as the Barisan Nasional campaign in both Ayer Hitam and Teluk Intan is based on these constituencies being represented by Ministers.

DAP accepts that the Prime Minister has the prerogative to decide his Cabinet, but in a political coalition, the component parties will be recommending leaders to the Cabinet, and what Guan Eng said was that the DAP would be recommending Chin Tong and Kor Ming to be Ministers to fill the DAP quota.

This is very simple and straightforward – but when the Prime Minister himself jump into the controversy and said that DAP was showing its true colours by announcing Ministers, demonstrating who is really holding power in Pakatan Harapan, it only betrays Najib as getting very panicky about the outcome of the 14th General Election.

(Media Conference Statemen in Pekan Lima Kedai, Iskandar Puteri, Johor on Monday, 23rd April 2018 at 10 am)

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Six tsunamis to effect  the first change of Malaysian Government in Putrajaya in 61 years in the 14GE

I hope to see six tsunamis to effect the first change of Malaysian Government in Putrajaya in 61 years in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018.

The six political tsunamis are:

– Urban tsunami;

– Rural tsunami;

– Sabah tsunami;

– Sarawak tsunami;

– Women tsunami; and

– Youth tsunami.

The 13th General Election five years ago in 2013, as well as the 12GE in 2008, saw the phenomenon of the urban political tsunami in Malaysia.  These were not Chinese tsunami, but the tsunami of the urban and semi-urban Malaysians, whether Chinese, Indian or Malays in urban and semi-urban Malaysia.

We must not take for granted that there will be an equal degree of urban tsunami in the 14GE on May 9, because the failures of the urban tsunamis in the 2008 and 2012 General Elections to bring about change of government have resulted in political fatigue, disappointment and even disenchantment with the electoral process.

We have to re-ignite and re-inspire hope among the 15 million registered voters that  there is a chance to effect change of the Federal government first time in the nation’s 61-year history, and that everyone should take the trouble and make  the sacrifice to cast their vote – even it means a sacrifice of one, two or even three working days and for Malaysians from the Malaysian Diaspora from all over the world to fly home to cast their precious vote.

This is the last chance in this generation to change the Malaysian Government and save Malaysia from a kleptocratic state and a rogue democracy, for Malaysians are not going to get another such opportunity in the next 20- 30 years.

But there must be a rural tsunami to ensure that we can see a Malaysian tsunami in the 14GE on May 9.

We see a Malay tsunami in the rural areas and Felda schemes in-the-making.

If Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Ibans, Orang Asli all unite in the 14E to demand for change and an end to UMNO/BN policies which not only lead to a kleptocratic state and rogue democracy  but utter disregard of the interests and welfare of the ordinary Malaysians in favour of UMNO/BN cronies and kleptocrats, a new Malaysia will begin after the 14GE on May 9, 2018.

Hence my hope to see also a Sabah tsunami and a Sarawak tsunami.

But I want to see another two tsunami – women tsunami and youth tsunami.

DAP is fielding more woman and youth candidates (including seven under 30 years of age).

In the 2013 General Election, DAP candidates who were youths  30 years of age and below and who were  subsequently elected as State Assemblyman/woman  included Yeo Bee Yin (Damansara, Selangor), Wong Shu Qui (Senai, Selangor), Liow Cai Tung (Johor Jaya, Johor), Lee Chuan How (Pasir Pinji, Perak), Chow Yu Hui (Bilut, Pahang), Lee Chin Chen (Ketari, Pahang) and Leong Yu Man (Triang, Pahang).

For the 14GE, DAP will be fielding nine  candidates who are  30 years of age or below with Kerk Chee Yee, 25, my political secretary, the youngest candidate standing for Ayer Keroh state assembly seat in Malacca.

The others are:

Jamaliah Jamaluddin, 29 – Bandar Utama, Selangor.

Michelle Ng, 28 – Subang Jaya, Selangor.

Lim Yi Wei, 28 – Kampung Tunku, Selangor.

Choy Tsi Jen, 30 – Canning, Perak.

Teoh Yee Chern, 28 – Astaka, Perak.

Young Syefura Othman (Rara), 28 – Ketari, Pahang.

Teh Swee Leong, 28 – Kota Darul Aman, Kedah.

Phoong Jin Zhe, 29 – Luyang, Sabah.

Just now, DAP Secretary-General and Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng announced me as DAP/Pakatan Harapan candidate for Iskandar Puteri. I am reminded of the  political ceramah in Pay Fong Chinese Independent Secondary School in Malacca 32 years ago in 1986 where I introduced Guan Eng as the DAP candidate for the Kota Melaka parliamentary constituency.

This is in accordance with the Chinese saying, “Just as the waves of the Yangtze River behind drive on those ahead, so does each generation replace the old one”.

长江后浪催前浪，世上新人赶旧人

This is important as Malaysia has a very youthful population, with the latest demographic profile of the country with 31 million people last year as follows:

0-14 years: 27.83% (male 4,493,084/female 4,238,991)

15-24 years: 16.81% (male 2,677,834/female 2,598,958)

25-54 years: 41% (male 6,507,499/female 6,358,762)

55-64 years: 8.27% (male 1,316,331/female 1,277,558)

65 years and over: 6.1% (male 907,850/female 1,005,125) (2017 est.)

On May 9 two years ago, the Filipinos changed their President in their general election.  On May 9 last year, the South Koreans changed their President in their presidential election.

It is now the turn of Malaysians whether they would change their Prime Minister on May 9 this year!

This is the decision in the hands of the 15 million Malaysian voters on May 9.

I want to thank the people of the previous Gelang Patah parliamentary constituency who had given me support and encouragement in the past five years to continue to fight for the realization of a Malaysian Dream of Malaysia as a world top-class nation.

When I shifted from Ipoh Timor parliamentary constituency to contest in Gelang Patah in 2013, many felt it was a fool-hardy decision as many thought that Gelang Patah was a “sure lose” constituency.  Many on Polling night went through an agonizing night as they feared that I might lose in the Gelang Patah constituency.

Now there is no more Gelang Patah parliamentary constituency, with the name changed to Iskandar Puteri, after some gerrymandering to make the constituency more winnable for the Barisan Nasional. The Nusajaya state assembly seat formerly inside Gelang Patah has been changed to Kota Iskandar.

But there is a sea-change in some perceptions, with some regarding Iskander Puteri parliamentary seat as a “sure win” for DAP and Pakatan Harapan.

This is wrong. Just as Gelang Patah was not a “sure lose” seat for the DAP in the 2013 General Election, Iskandar Puteri is not a “sure win” seat for the DAP and Pakatan Harapan in the 14th General Election.

To win in Iskandar Puteri and to counter the gerrymandering in the constituency redelineation just before dissolution of Parliament, we must not take things for granted as we need every single vote to win.

I leave my political future in the hands of the 138,000 voters in Iskandar Puteri.

(Speech at the DAP Iskandar Puteri General Elections fund-raising dinner in Skudai, Johor Baru on Sunday, April 22, 2018 at  11 pm)

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Najib may have the world’s most expensive strategists and propagandists but money cannot buy wisdom

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s poetic swipe at Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad illustrates that Najib have not learnt the lesson that he may have the world’s most expensive strategists and propagandists, but money cannot buy wisdom.

In a poem dedicated to his predecessor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Najib took a poetic swipe at his nemesis Tun Mahathir Mohamad and the Selangor Pakatan Harapan state government, while praising the loyalty of Tun Abdullah.

This is the latest example of Najib continuing to receive bad advice from his highly-paid strategists and propagandists.

The come-back had been swift and lethal, with UMNO veteran and former Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin reminding Najib that he had betrayed Abdullah or he would not be the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia.

During the 2004 General Election, Abdullah campaigned as modern-day Justice Pao to fight corruption and abuses of power.

Is Najib suggesting that Abdullah has become a loyal and fervent supporter  of Najib’s dubious  “accomplishment” – making Malaysia a global kleptocracy? Let Abdullah say so himself – that he supports Najib in the 1MDB scandal, which has made Malaysia into a global kleptocracy.

It is unwise for Najib to launch the  latest attack on Mahathir for Najib serves to underline the great  question in the 14GE – whether one should remain loyal to persons and political parties even when these persons and political parties have betrayed their founding principles, becoming arrogant and corrupt, or whether one should be loyal to truth, justice and freedom.

I had worked with three of the six Prime Ministers of Malaysia after they had stepped down from the highest office of the land – Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman, the third Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Hussein Onn and the fourth Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.

Tunku  Abdul Rahman, Hussein and Mahathir have collectively held the Prime Minister’s post for some 40 of the 61 years of Malaysian history, i.e. or about two-thirds of the nation’s history.

Surely, Najib is not suggesting that Tunku Abdul Rahman, Hussein and Mahathir became traitors when they stepped down as Prime Minister and co-operated with DAP in the cause of truth, justice and freedom for Malaysia?

(Media Statement in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, April 24, 2018)

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Six political tsunami in the 14th General Elections on May 9

I hope to see six tsunamis to effect the first change of Malaysian Government in Putrajaya in 61 years in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018.

The six political tsunamis are:

·Urban tsunami;

·Rural tsunami;

·Sabah tsunami;

·Sarawak tsunami;

·Women tsunami; and

·Youth tsunami.

The 13th General Election five years ago in 2013, as well as the 12GE in 2008, saw the phenomenon of the urban political tsunami in Malaysia.  These were not Chinese tsunami, but the tsunami of the urban and semi-urban Malaysians, whether Chinese, Indian or Malays in urban and semi-urban Malaysia.

We must not take for granted that there will be an equal degree of urban tsunami in the 14GE on May 9, because the failures of the urban tsunamis in the 2008 and 2012 General Elections to bring about change of government have resulted in political fatigue, disappointment and even disenchantment with the electoral process.

We have to re-ignite and re-inspire hope among the 15 million registered voters that  there is a chance to effect change of the Federal government first time in the nation’s 61-year history, and that everyone should take the trouble and make  the sacrifice to cast their vote – even it means a sacrifice of one, two or even three working days and for Malaysians from the Malaysian Diaspora from all over the world to fly home to cast their precious vote.

This is the last chance in this generation to change the Malaysian Government and save Malaysia from a kleptocratic state and a rogue democracy, for Malaysians are not going to get another such opportunity in the next 20- 30 years.

But there must be a rural tsunami to ensure that we can see a Malaysian tsunami in the 14GE on May 9.

We see a Malay tsunami in the rural areas and Felda schemes in-the-making.

If Malays, Chinese, Indians, Ibans, Kadazans, Orang Asli all unite in the 14E to demand for change and an end to UMNO/BN policies which not only lead to a kleptocratic state and rogue democracy  but utter disregard of the interests and welfare of the ordinary Malaysians in favour of UMNO/BN cronies and kleptocrats, a new Malaysia will begin after the 14GE on May 9, 2018.

Hence my hope to see also a Sarawak tsunami and a Sabah tsunami, and last night announcement that Sarawak DAP Chairman Chong Chieng Jen to leave his safe Bandar Kuching parliamentary seat for the dangerous Stampin parliamentary seat, can  be the spark for the Sarawak tsunami.

As I said in Batu Kawan ceramah last night, Stampin joins Ayer Hitam, Teluk Intan, Langkawi, Pagoh and Semporna as among the high-profile constituencies in the nation where the battle to Save Malaysia from a kleptocratic state and rogue democracy will be fought in the 14th General Election and be the focus of attention not only of Malaysians but the world.

But I want to see another two tsunami – women tsunami and youth tsunami.

DAP is fielding more woman and youth candidates, including seven under 30 years of age.

In the 2013 General Election, DAP candidates who were youths 30 years of age and below and who were subsequently elected as State Assemblyman/woman included Yeo Bee Yin (Damansara, Selangor), Wong Shu Qui (Senai, Selangor), Liow Cai Tung (Johor Jaya, Johor), Lee Chuan How (Pasir Pinji, Perak), Chow Yu Hui (Bilut, Pahang), Lee Chin Chen (Ketari, Pahang) and Leong Yu Man (Triang, Pahang).

For the 14GE, DAP will contest in 47 Parliamentary and 103 State Assembly seats. We will  nine  candidates who are  30 years of age or below with Kerk Chee Yee, 25, my political secretary, the youngest candidate standing for Ayer Keroh state assembly seat in Malacca.

The others are:

– Jamaliah Jamaluddin, 29 – Bandar Utama, Selangor.

– Michelle Ng, 28 – Subang Jaya, Selangor.

– Lim Yi Wei, 28 – Kampung Tunku, Selangor.

– Choy Tsi Jen, 30 – Canning, Perak.

– Teoh Yee Chern, 28 – Astaka, Perak.

– Young Syefura Othman (Rara), 28 – Ketari, Pahang.

– Teh Swee Leong, 28 – Kota Darul Aman, Kedah.

– Phoong Jin Zhe, 29 – Luyang, Sabah.

Malaysia has a very youthful population, with the latest demographic profile of the country with 31 million people last year as follows:

0-14 years: 27.83% (male 4,493,084/female 4,238,991)

15-24 years: 16.81% (male 2,677,834/female 2,598,958)

25-54 years: 41% (male 6,507,499/female 6,358,762)

55-64 years: 8.27% (male 1,316,331/female 1,277,558)

65 years and over: 6.1% (male 907,850/female 1,005,125) (2017 est.)

On May 9 two years ago, the Filipinos changed their President in their general election.  On May 9 last year, the South Koreans changed their President in their presidential election.

It is now the turn of Malaysians whether they would change their Prime Minister on May 9 this year!

This is the decision in the hands of the 15 million Malaysian voters on May 9.

(Media Conference Statement at Kuching International Airport on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 8.30 a.m)

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Stampin  joins Ayer Hitam, Teluk Intan, Langkawi, Pagoh and  Semporna as among the high-profile constituencies in the nation where the battle to Save Malaysia from a kleptocratic state and rogue democracy will be fought in the 14GE

Tonight is a historic one for Stampin and Sarawak, for with the brave and selfless  decision of the DAP Sarawak Chairman Chong Chieng Jen to leave his safe Bandar Kuching parliamentary seat for the dangerous Stampin parliamentary seat, Stampin joins Ayer Hitam, Teluk Intan, Langkawi, Pagoh and Semporna as among the high-profile constituencies in the nation where the battle to Save Malaysia from a kleptocratic state and rogue democracy will be fought in the 14th General Election and be the focus of attention not only of Malaysians but the world.

In the 13th General Election, DAP won Stampin by 18,000 votes. But through  the worst  gerrymandering in the redelineation of parliamentary constituencies, Barisan Nasional sought to win back Stampin by the most undemocratic means by moving 28,000 voters from Stampin to  Bandar Kuching so that SUPP can  win Stampin.

The issue in Stampin, Sarawak and even Malaysia is whether the voice of Chong Chien Jen will be silenced in Parliament if he is defeated in Stampin.

It is shocking and even mind-blowing that the SUPP could be so mindless and blind as to claim that the 14th General Election has nothing to do with Datuk Seri Najib Razak and that it is about Sarawak’s rights to self-determination.

This is the greatest fake news and bluff in the 14th General Elecltion, and those in the SUPP who perpetrate such lies, fake news and false information should be charged under the Anti-Fake News Act which was bull-dozed through Parliament before dissolution, carrying draconian penalties of up to RM500,000 fine, six years’ jail or both.

The single most important issue in the 14th General Election is about Najib – whether he continues as Prime Minister of Malaysia although he had brought shame and humiliation to the country by being regarded worldwide as a global kleptocracy, whether there is going to be a new beginning for  Sarawak and Malaysia under Pakatan Harapan Government in Putrajaya.

If Pakatan Harapan defeats the UMNO/BN coalition on May 9, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad will become the seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia with Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as Deputy Prime Minister, and Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will be the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia.

But the great battle in the 14GE is not so much Najib vs Mahathir, as Najib vs People of Malaysia – for this is the time for all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or political party affiliation, to unite to save Malaysia from hurtling along the trajectory towards a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

The Barisan Nasional Manifesto for the 2018 General Elections is another “fake news” in the 14GE.

The theme of the Barisan Nasional manifesto “Bersama BN, Hebatkan Negaraku” is not only false and misleading, but one of greatest fake news in the country.

In reality, the hard truth is “Bersama BN, hancurlah Negaraku”.

The most fraudulent statement in the Barisan Nasional manifesto is the undertaking that after the 14GE, the Barisan Nasional will implement the Malaysia Agreement 1963 proposals “based on consensus”.

A moment of serious consideration of this statement will show that it is a meaningless statement, which looks pretty on the outside and is utterly in the innards.

What does it mean that the Barisan Nasional would implement the Malaysia Agreement 1963 proposals by consensus?

It means that all it needs to stop the fulfillment of this promise in its tracks is for one of the 13 Barisan Nasional component parties to object to any implementation of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 proposals – for there would be no consensus for them.

There are four political parties in Sarawak and four political parties in Sabah who are members of the 13-member Barisan Nasional.

I was in Sandakan when the Barisan Nasional Manifesto was announced more than two weeks ago, and I had called on the leaders of the eight Barisan Nasional component parties in Sarawak and  Sabah  to requisition an emergency meeting of the BN Supreme Council to amend the Barisan Nasional Manifesto from “implementing the Malaysia Agreement 1963 based on consensus” to a straightforward undertaking to implement the MA1963.

The Malaysia Agreement 1963 proposals had been agreed to by all the signatory parties and should not be subject to any consensus in the Barisan Nasional

Let me declare that if Pakatan Harapan is given the mandate to form the Malaysian Government in Putrajaya in the 14GE, we will implement that Malaysia Agreement 1963 proposals and not subject them to renegotiation based on consensus of any body.

Did SUPP or anyone of the other  Barisan Nasional component parties in Sarawak protest against the BN manifesto about “implementing the Malaysia Agreement 1963 based on consensus”?

None at all. When SUPP and the other BN component parties in Sarawak dare not even protest against the BN Manifesto and demand that it be amended to a straightforward commitment to implement the Malaysia Agreement 1963 without subjecting it to any renegotiation, all the SUPP and BN Sarawak talk about Sarawak rights to self-determination is an empty one.

I have said that the BN Manifesto is wrong and misleading as “Bersama BN” will not “Hebatkan Negaraku” but “Hancurkan Negaraku”.

In over half a century of nation-building, instead of becoming a great nation admired and respected by the world for our accomplishments in various fields of human endeavor, we have lost our way and is scorned and looked askance by the world as we have become a global kleptocracy!

This is highlighted by the latest Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2017 where Malaysia fell to the lowest ranking of No. 62 out of 180 countries, which is the lowest ranking in 23 years.

Malaysia is ranked No. 142 out of 158 countries in the independent  joint “Electoral Integrity Project” of Harvard University and Univeristy of Sydney.

Is this the stuff of national greatness?

Do we have a great Prime Minister?

How can Malaysians be proud of a Prime Minister who is just a copycat of US President Donald Trump whose campaign theme was “Make America Great Again” (MAGA)?

Furthermore, Najib also “copied” Trump’s use of an ”anti-fake news” campaign not to combat fake news based on lies and false information but to impose a new form of censorship to suppress reports about abuses of power and corruption, in particular the 1MDB scandal.

Trump has the dubious honour of scoring the lowest popularity rating of below 40% in his first year as US President, but Najib as “out-Trump Trump”, as an international magazine last year listed five world leaders who have lower popularity rating than Trump – and Najib was one of these five world leaders!

Do we have a great Parliament?

The 13th Parliament had degenerated into a great farce, as illustrated by its last six days which I attended daily and diligently, but the Speaker and Deputy Speakers cannot see me, and I cannot participate in parliamentary debates and my vote was not counted during parliamentary votings.

It would appear that I have become a parliamentary “ghost”.

I had been a Member of Parliament for 10 terms from 1969 to 2018, except for the tenth Parliament from 1999 to 2004, spanning 45 years from 1969. However, I have not felt so ashamed as a MP than in the 13th Parliament.

It is not because I was suspended twice, and for six months each, basically because I demanded answers and accountability over the 1MDB scandal but because Malaysia became known as a global kleptocracy during the tenure of the 13th Parliament.

The Prime Minister Najib Razak and the Parliament Speaker, Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia owe to all Malaysians an apology  for the 13th Parliament’s failure to do anything to clear or purge Malaysia of the infamy, ignominy and iniquity of being regarded worldwide as a global kleptocracy.

The 13th Parliament not only did not do anything to clear or purge Malaysia of the infamy, ignominy and iniquity of being regarded worldwide as a global kleptocracy, it ignored and subverted the fundamental doctrine of the separation of powers and allowed Parliament to be a rubber stamp of the Executive, not only to suppress questions and debates on the 1MDB scandal, it became a partner in the political crime of enacting the Anti-Fake News legislation to try to save Najib from the full consequences of the 1MDB scandal.

Do we have great national institutions in the Elections Commission, the Attorney-General’s Office, the Police, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission?

Every Malaysian knows that these national institutions have fallen on bad times, as their independence, credibility and authority have been greatly undermined by their chiefs not living up to their high standards of impartiality, responsibility, professionalism and patriotism.

Only a change of the Malaysian government in Putrajaya can make these national institutions great again, for them to be totally reformed and be run by efficient, competent and God-fearing Malaysians.

Do we have a great Judiciary?

We have good lawyers and judges, but we do not have a great judiciary where justice is meted out to all Malaysians, regardless of rank or status.

Will the judiciary in Malaysia uphold a declaration that UMNO has become an illegal political party since April 19, 2018 for failing to hold UMNO Supreme Council elections in 54 months (three years plus 18 months’ extension) as required by the UMNO constitution, and that in consequence, Najib cannot be BN President, that BN is illegal and the BN logo of “daching” cannot be used in the 14th General Election?

Malaysia can only sink lower and deeper in international esteem under Najib’s UMNO/BN as Malaysia can only be great again if Malaysians unite to Save Malaysia from Najib and UMNO/BN by voting for a Pakatan Harapan government in Putrajaya in the 14th General Election.

(Speech at the DAP Ceramah at Batu Kawan on Monday, April 23, 2018 at 9 pm)

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DAP fields first Orang Asli candidate in 52-year party history

The DAP has created a few histories with the DAP candidate line-up for parliamentary and state assembly elections for the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018.

The DAP is fielding candidates in 47 parliamentary and 105 state assembly seats totaling 152 seats, but involving 148 candidates as four DAP leaders, namely DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng, DAP Vice Chairman and Penang DAP State Chairman Chow Kon Yeow, DAP Deputy Secretary-General and Perak DAP Chairman, Nga Kor Ming and DAP National Organising Secretary and Negri Sembilan DAP State Chairman Anthony Loke, are contesting both parliamentary and state assembly seats.

For the first time in the 52-year history of DAP, an Orang Asli candidate, Nasir Dollah,  will be fielded in the Galas state assembly seat in Kelantan.

The ethnic breakdown for the 148 DAP candidates are:

Orang Asli –  1

Iban       –  3

KDM        –  3

Malay      –  10

Indian     –  23

Chinese    – 109

DAP has probably the youngest candidate for all political parties in the 14th General Election – my political secretary Kerk Chee Yee, 25, who will be contesting in the Ayer Keroh State Assembly seat in Malacca.

DAP has nine candidates who are 30 years or below. Apart from Kerk Chee Yee, the other eight are:

Jamaliah Jamaluddin, 29 – Bandar Utama, Selangor.

Michelle Ng, 28 – Subang Jaya, Selangor.

Lim Yi Wei, 28 – Kampung Tunku, Selangor.

Choy Tsi Jen, 30 – Canning, Perak.

Teoh Yee Chern, 28 – Astaka, Perak.

Young Syefura Othman (Rara), 28 – Ketari, Pahang.

Teh Swee Leong, 28 – Kota Darul Aman, Kedah.

Phoong Jin Zhe, 29 – Luyang, Sabah.

Malaysia has a very youthful population, with the latest demographic profile of the country of  31 million people last year as follows:

0-14 years: 27.83% (male 4,493,084/female 4,238,991)

15-24 years: 16.81% (male 2,677,834/female 2,598,958)

25-54 years: 41% (male 6,507,499/female 6,358,762)

55-64 years: 8.27% (male 1,316,331/female 1,277,558)

65 years and over: 6.1% (male 907,850/female 1,005,125) (2017 est.)

DAP is fielding 27 women candidates – eight parliamentary and 19 State Assembly.

On May 9 two years ago, the Filipinos changed their President in their general election.  On May 9 last year, the South Koreans changed their President in their presidential election.

It is now the turn of Malaysians whether they would change their Prime Minister on May 9 this year!

This is the decision in the hands of the 15 million Malaysian voters on May 9, 2018.

(Media Conference Statement 2 at Bakri Election Centre in Muar on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 2 pm)

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