Registrar of Societies should cancel the 30-day provisional dissolution order to PPBM on Monday as it its extraordinarily improper and mala fide for any such order to be issued to any political party on the eve of a general election and caretaker government

The 13th Parliament was dissolved on midnight and what Malaysians have today is a caretaker government, which means a government which should not make any policy decision, spend or promise a single ringgit over and above from what is required in normal government administrative requirements and all government resources including government aircrafts, helicopters and vehicles should be grounded  and not misused for electioneering by anyone, whether Prime Minister or any Cabinet Minister, until a new government is elected in the nation’s 14th General Election.

In normal democracies which accept the rules of a normal democratic process, the equivalent of the Election Commission would monitor the activities of a caretaker government to ensure that they are  limited to official and routine government administration, but not in Malaysia where the Election Commission has forfeited the confidence of Malaysians by producing the most monstrous and pernicious gerrymandering of electoral constituencies in the nation’s history.

I call on the civil society to establish an immediate mechanism to conduct a daily monitoring of the caretaker government, to ensure that the caretaker government sticks to the straight and narrow path of official and routine government administration and that no abuse of power or government resources for partisan electioneering is allowed  or committed during this interregnum until the election of a new government.

In this context, the 30-day provisional dissolution order issued by the Registrar of Societies to Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) on the eve of the dissolution of Parliament is extraordinarily improper and most mala fide, that reeks of abuses of power and process.

It is even a grave violation of the spirit and concept of caretaker government, for how can an independent and responsible Registrar of Societies issue a provisional dissolution order to a political party on the eve of the dissolution of Parliament which in effect would disable it from contesting in the 14th General Election, giving the caretaker government the odious task to ensure that PPBM can no longer hold activities and use its name and logo, which includes taking part in the 14th General Election as a political party fielding candidates using the PPBM logo.

Malaysians regardless of race, religion, region or political party  fully share the outrage of former Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, who vowed to defy the Registrar of Societies’ provisional dissolution order and dared the caretaker Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak to arrest him for breaking the RoS’ directive.

Former long-time Cabinet Minister, Tan Sri Rais Yatim has joined another former long-time Cabinet Minister, Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz in expressing their outrage at the “despicable”, “unconscionable” and “irresponsible” action by the Registrar of Societies in issuing the provisional dissolution order to PPBM on  the eve of dissolution of 13th Parliament.

Rais Yatim said it was “fishy” that the Registrar of Societies’ announcement of PPBM’s provisional dissolution was made through a press conference, instead of dealing with the party directly.

I say it is doubly fishy and clearly mala fide that the provisional dissolution order was made on the eve of the dissolution of Parliament and the holding of the 14th General Election.

The timing and circumstances of the Registrar of Societies’ provisional dissolution order demonstrate that the Registrar of Societies was not acting as a free agent but was acting to help Naib, UMNO and Barisan Nasional in the great electoral battle of the 14GE.

Are the 3.6 million UMNO members to sit idle and allow the UMNO/BN government to so abuse its powers as to issue a 30-day provisional dissolution order to PPBM on the eve of the 14th General Election?

Even if Najib is mortally afraid of Mahathir, Najib should not cross the line as he has done with  the 30-day provisional dissolution order to PPBM!

The Registrar of Societies should admit her error and cancel the  30-day provisional dissolution order on Monday, and only issue such a 30-day provisional dissolution order after a new government is formed after the 14GE if the Registrar of Societies is still minded to do so.

In other words, there would be no ban or bar on the PPBM and its officials from holding activities and use  of the PPBM name and logo during the interregnum of the caretaker government, including fielding candidates and fully taking part as a political party in the 14GE.

Will the Registrar of Societies cancel the 30-day provisional dissolution order issued to PPBM on the first working day of the caretaker government on Monday?

(Media Statement on Saturday, April 7, 2018)

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BN Manifesto wrong and misleading, as “Bersama BN” will not “Hebatkan Negaraku” but “Hancurkan Negaraku”

Firstly, I want to make two announcements with regard to the 14th General Election as both Parliament and the Sabah State Assembly have been dissolved

DAP Sabah will field two women candidates in the 14GE – Jannie Lasimbang who will be DAP candidate for Kapayan Sabah State Assembly seat and Noorita Sual who will be the DAP candidate for the parliamentary seat of Tenom.

Jannie, head of DAP Sabah Wanita and former Suhakam Commissioner, has brought international renown to Sabah and Malaysia, as she was president of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact and co-ordinator of Partners of Community Organisation, Sabah.

Noorita, who was a DAP Sabah State Assembly candidate in the 13th General Election in 2013, is the first Murut woman lawyer in the country.

The 14th General Election is shaping up to be a titanic electoral battle in Malaysia.

Caretaker Prime Minister and Barisan Nasional Chairman Datuk Seri Najib Razak unveiled the Barisan Nasional manifesto, themed “Bersama BN Hebatkan Negaraku” (With BN for a Greater Malaysia).

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.

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 Parliamnt 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.

I call on Prime Minister  Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the Parliament Speaker, Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia  to apologise to all Malaysians 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.

Last week, there was a long article in a Swiss magazine, Republik – which is available online – the outcome of the examination of more than one thousand pages of bank statements and court documents, and extensive interviews with more than a half-dozen people involved in Europe and Asia, about corruption and money-laundering from logging in Sabah.

But such corruption exposes virtually become irrelevant when they are overshadowed by the “mother of all corruption scandals”, the 1MDB scandal, which operates in the range of tens of billions of ringgit but not a person had been prosecuted or penalised in Malaysia despite worldwide  1MDB investigations and actions!

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?

The “turtle egg” case causing dismay to Sabah lawyers is the latest example why something is very wrong with the Judiciary after half a century of nation-building.

Sabah lawyers are rightly dismayed that the Court of Appeal could come out with a  decision that the case be heard in Kuala Lumpur and not in Sabah, when the “turtle eggs” are in Sabah, the newspaper involved is a Sabah daily although the “VVIP” involved in the case is an UMNO Minister from Kuala Lumpur!

The Barisan Nasional manifesto launched in Kuala Lumpur tonight pledged to implement the Malaysia Agreement 1963 proposals based on consensus achieved in Barisan Nasional.

This is a real cop-out. What has consensus got to do with implementing the Malaysia Agreement 1963?

If Pakatan Harapan wins the 14GE and forms the new Federal Government, we will implement the Malaysia Agreement 1963 without hesitation or compromise  as the question of a consensus does not arise.

I am glad to see my old friend, Tan Sri Simon Sipaun with us. I will propose that he head a commission to implement Malaysia Agreement 1963, and I will be happy to sit as a member of the Commission.

We face great challenges in the 14GE –  Malaysia has  to be saved, but Malaysia cannot be saved without Sabah being saved.

Sabah also needs to be saved, for it is completely unacceptable that after more than half a century of nationhood, the people of Sabah still do not have basic infrastructures  of clean water, electricity, health, education and transportation.

But Sabah can only be saved, if Malaysia is saved.

This is why in the 14GE, the following call and objective is most important:

SAVE MALAYSIA TO SAVE SABAH; SAVE SABAH TO SAVE MALAYSIA!

(Speech at the Kapayan DAP 14th General Election Preparations Dinner held in Penampang, Sabah on Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 10 pm)

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Call on the leaders of the eight Barisan Nasional component parties in Sabah and Sarawak 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 Barisan Nasional Manifesto for the 2018 General Elections is the latest and biggest “fake news” to surface in Malaysia.

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

It is utterly ludicrous to make such a meaningless promise in the Barisan Nasional manifesto and I call on the leaders of the eight Barisan Nasional component parties in Sabah and Sarawak 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 renegotiations based on consensus of any body.

(Speech at the DAP kopitiam ceramah at Damai, Kota Kinabalu on Sunday, April 8,  2018 at 11 am)

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Let the RAHMAN prediction run its course in the 14GE, and may be it would be replaced by a second prediction of MAHATHIR for  the next eight Prime Ministers of Malaysia

There is a famous saying about the first six Prime Ministers of Malaysia that it will fulfill the RAHMAN prediction.

So far this RAHMAN saying has worked, with Tunku Abdul Rahman as the first Prime Minister, followed by Tun Abdul Razak, Tun Hussein Onn, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Abdullah Badawi and  Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

Let the RAHMAN prediction run its course in the 14GE, and may be it would be replaced by a second prediction of MAHATHIR for  the next eight Prime Ministers of Malaysia.

The first two alphabets of this prediction will be fulfilled if the Pakatan Harapan replaces UMNO/Barisan Nasional as the new Malaysian Government in Putrajaya in the 14th General Election.

This is because Pakatan Harapan has decided that Tun Mahathir Mohamad be the seventh Prime Minister while Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim would be the eighth Prime Minister – fulfilling the M and A in the second MAHATHIR prediction on the second series of Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Whether the six Prime Minister after Anwar will fit the second MAHATHIR prediction only time will tell.

However, Mahathir as seventh Prime Minister and Anwar as the eighth Prime Minister would not prevent the UMNO leaders, propagandists and quinoa cyberteoopers from their ferocious demonization that if Pakatan Harapan wins the 14th General Elections, I would take over as Prime Minister of Malaysia.

In fact, the Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Minister, Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin, fired the opening salvo for the revival of the dastardly demonization campaign that I would take over as Prime Minister if Pakatan Harapan wins the 14GE when he was reported by the New Straits Times last Thursday.

I understand that a high-powered and highly-funded UMNO/BN demonization campaign against me was ready to fire a new demonization onslaught against me, portraying me as real Prime Minister-designate when Pakatan Harapans wins the 14GE.

I await such a demonization assault.

(Speech (2) at the DAP kopitiam ceramah at Damai, Kota Kinabalu on Sunday, April 8,  2018 at 11 am)

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The 14GE is the last opportunity for Malaysians to tell the whole world that they do not want Malaysia to become a global kleptocracy

I want to announce that the DAP/Pakatan Harapan candidate for Sandakan Parliament will be the incumbent and Sabah DAP State Chairman Stephen Wong, while Calvin Chong will be the DAP/PH candidate for the Sabah state assembly seat of  Elopura and Frankie Poong the DAP/PH candidate for Tanjung Papat state assembly seat.

This is a significant visit to me to Sandakan, marking the 40th anniversary of my first visit to Sandakan in 1978 – the year Sandakan created history in sending the first “Rocket” from Sabah to  Parliament.

As the DAP International Secretary, Teo Nie Ching, mentioned just now, the Rocket symbol will not be seen in Peninsular Malaysia in the 14th General Election and would only be seen in Sabah and Sarawak, as we have made the critical decision to use the Pakatan Harapan common logo in the supreme effort to win the 14th General Election and establish the Pakatan Harapan Federal Government in Putrajaya.

I do not deny that this is a very hard and heart-wrenching decision, with many DAP leaders shedding tears over it, but this supreme sacrifice is the DAP’s contribution to make everyone in Malaysia, particularly in Peninsular Malaysia to rise above race, religion, region or even political party in the 14GE to vote solidly as one Malaysian people to Save Malaysia from hurtling along the trajectory of a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

Nie Ching is right.  Sabah and Sarawak will be the envy of DAP leaders in Peninsular Malaysia, as the Rocket symbol will only be seen in Sabah and Sarawak although the Rocket spirit will soar strong and high all over Malaysia.

DAP has been accused of being peninsular party, but with the Rocket only to be seen in Sabah and Sarawak, it would appear that DAP has become a Sabah/Sarawak-based political party!

The video we saw  just now showing the decline of Sandakan is the best rebuttal to the Barisan Nasional’s 2018 General Election Manifeso, with the theme, “Bersama BN, Hebatkan Negaraku”.

Sandakan is the best proof that “Bersama BN, Hancurkan Negaraku”!

Sandakan, which was the former capital of British North Borneo fron rhe years 1884-1946, was formerly known as “Little Hong Kong”.  But it has failed to live up to its early promise, and instead of becoming equivalent to Hong Kong, it has become a “Little Philippines”!

The same applies to the whole of Malaysia, for in the past half a century, we have failed to live up to the Malaysian Dream, and instead of being a show-case to the world of an united, harmonious, successful, progressive and prosperous nation created out of the best of the diverse races, languages, religions and cultures had meet inconfluence in Malaysia, we are scorned and mocked by the whole world as a global kleptocracy.

The 14GE is the last opportunity for Malaysians to tell the whole world that they do not want Malaysia to become a global kleptocracy.

The Barisan Nasional 14GE manifesto promised to make Malaysia into a greater country. How is this possible when in the past nine years under the Najib premiership, Malaysia had failed to shown any signs of greatness in many important aspects of national life?

We do not have a great Prime Minister who is reviled worldwide as a 1MDB and kleptocratic Prime Minister.

We do not have a great Parliament, when in the last six days of Parliament, the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers developed a peculiar blindness where they could not see me, although I had daily and diligently attended Parliament.  Furthermore, they have developed a special disease where MPs cannot ask questions and debate the 1MDB scandal which had given Malaysia the 3Is – the infamy, ignominy and iniquity – of a global kleptocrcy, doing absolutely nothing to clear or purge Malaysia of the epithet of a global kleptocracy.

We do not have a great judiciary and justice system – or today, Tan Sri Richard Malanjum would be the Chief Justice of Malaysia and Sabahans and Malaysians told the real reason why the first Sabahan to be made Attorney-General had been summarily sacked from his office in July 2015!

How can Malaysia be great again under Barisan Nasional when the Barisan Nasional is responsible for Malaysia’s fall from greatness.

Only a Pakatan Harapan Federal Government can make Malaysia great again – but first we must address the reasons which have caused Malaysia’s fall from greatness!

(Speech at the Sandakan DAP 14th General Election Preparations Dinner held in Sandakan on Sunday, 8th April 2018 at 10 pm)

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“Unearthly silence” is no option for Najib with regard to Rafidah’s FaceBook posting about the privatisation of over 40,000 hectares of prime military land to a three-person company

The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, should know that “unearthly silence” is no option for him with regard to former Cabinet Minister and Wanita UMNO leader, Tan Sri Rafidah Azia’s FaceBook posting about the privatisation of over 40,000 hectares of prime military land in the country to a three-person company.

Rafidah said the proposal was made to the government in 2008  by Najib, who was then the Defence Minister,  and was already approved and executed.

The privatisation was based on a lease of four decades and done without open tender.

She added that when the prime lands were revalued, the company stood to reap hefty profits.

Rafidah asked Najib several pertinent questions:  the name of the company and the three individuals behind it;  details of the privatisation exercise; whether several key ongoing projects such as Bandar Malaysia which is on the former Sungai Besi Air Force base; the Majidee camp relocation; the East Coast Rail Link; the KL-Singapore High-Speed Rail project; a large-scale commercial agriculture project and the sale of the Butterworth Air Force base involve those privatised military land.

Rafidah’s FaceBook query has led to three questions from Brigadier-General (Rtd) Mohamed Arshad Raji, president of  Persatuan Patriot Kebangsaan (Patriot), who   expressed shock of the 300,000 veterans, the current serving military personnel, and the Malaysian public in general at  Rafidah’s revelations.

When will Najib answer?

(Media Statement on Monday, 9th April 2018)

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What do the Parliament Speaker, Election Commission Chairman and the MACC Chief Commissioner have in common?

Today, we can ask the question: What has the Parliament Speaker, Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia, the Election Commssion Chairman Tan Sri Mohd Hashim Abdullah and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Tan Sri Dzulkiflif Ahmad have in common?

Answer: Their inability to justify their decisions and actions as illustrated by the conduct of the Election Commission Chairman at the media conference this afternoon.

After announcing the nomnation and polling dates for the 14th General Election, Mohd Hashim Abdulah refused to field questions from journalists and  exited the media conference in double-quick time despite repeated shouts of “Tan Sri! Tan Sri!” to get his attention.

Mohd Hashim cannot explain the rationale why the Election Commission  decided to affix a Wednesday for Polling Day, if it is mindful of the Constitutional provision to act in a manner which enables it to enjoy “public confidence” and the constitutional mandate to conduct free, fair and honest elections.

In affixing Polling Day on a Wednesday, instead of a Saturday on  May 5 or May 12, the Election Commission is complying with the wishes and objectives of the UMNO/BN coalition to encourage the lowest voter turnout which would be the case if  Polling is fixed on a weekday instead of the traditional Saturday.

Would the government declare May 9 as public holiday to encourage maximum voter turnout?

Talking about independence, impartiality and professionalism!

This is why it was such a joke when the chief of  Election Commission teamed up with the Chief Commissioner of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to announce a joint Ops Centre to handle complaints related to election violations in the 14th General Election, as the credibility of the MACC is not very much higher than the Election Commision which had recently marred its reputation further  with the worst gerrymandering of electoral constituencies in the nation’s history.

What is the use of Election Commission-MACC Joint Ops Centre operating 24 hours a day when they dare not deal with infractions and violations by the sharks from UMNO/BN but only offences by the Opposition or UMNO/BN minnows?

The MACC can never recover its reputation and credibility so long as it maintains a blind-eye to the greatest corruption in the nation’s history and the largest kleptocracy in the world – the international multi-billion ringgit 1MDB money-laundering scandal which had turned Malaysia into a global kleptocracy in the last three years – not to mention the thunderous silence on the issue affecting the credibility and authority of the MACC Chief Commissioner himself.

At minimum, I would ask the MACC Chief Commissioner Dzulkifli to stop campaigning for UMNO/BN when he said that the MACC had only received a list of potential candidates from BN to vet for corruption or misuse of power.

If the MACC has any credibility or efficacy in fighting corruption, in particular grand corruption, how could Malaysia’s ranking in the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index 2017 fallen to the lowest in 23 years, ranked as No. 62 out of 180 countries?

For several weeks before Parliament’s dissolution on 7th April 2018, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak had been indulging in money politics and abusing his powers visiting various parts of the country with goodies and dedak, which neither the Election Commission nor the MACC dared to   breathe a word of objection or disapproval.

This is why the Election Commssion Chairman and the MACC Chief Commissioner share a common trait with the Parliament Speaker,  Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia.

I had been a Member of Parliamnt 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.

I was suspended twice, and for six months, basically because I demanded answers and accountability over the 1MDB scandal and  why Malaysia became known as a global kleptocracy during the tenure of the 13th Parliament.

The Parliament Speaker  should apologise to all Malaysians 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.

(Media Statement on Tuesday, April 10, 2018)

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Will there be six tsunamis in the 14th General Election to establish a new Pakatan Harapan Federal  Government in Putrajaya to usher a new Malaysia restoring  the  Malaysian Dream of Malaysians down the decades?

We are heading into the most challenging General Election  in the 61-year history of the nation – the 14th General Election.

One of the questions to be decided will be whether there will be six tsunamis in the 14th General Election to establish a new Pakatan Harapan Government in Putrajaya to restore  the Malaysian Dream of all Malaysians down the decades?

There was a political tsunami in the urban areas in the last two general elections, which denied the UMNO/Barisan Nasional coalition its unbroken two-thirds parliamentary majority and in 2013, deprived Datuk Seri Najib Razak of majority popular support – but because of gerrymandering and unfair democratic practices, it was not enough to bring about the first peaceful and democratic change of Federal Government in Putrajaya.

I hope to see six political tsunamis in the 14th General Election: 1. Urban Tsunami; 2. Rural Tsunami; 3. Sabah Tsunami; 4. Sarawak Tsunami; 5. Women Tsunami; and 6. Youth Tsunami.

The decision of the DAP leadership to use a Pakatan Harapan common logo in Peninsula Malaysia in the 14GE, and not the Rocket logo which had been used in the past five decades, is a game-changer for the 14th GE.

Nobody in DAP is happy that the Rocket symbol will not be on the ballot paper in the 14GE in Peninsular Malaysia, as the Rocket symbol will only  fly and soar in Sabah and Sarawak in the 14GE.

This had been a very hard and heart-wrenching decision, and several DAP leaders had shed tears over it – testimony  of how deep and dear the Rocket symbol is to DAP leaders, members and supporters in the valiant fight for justice and freedom in Malaysia in the past few decades.

I myself had used the Rocket symbol in 11 General Elections and one by-election since 1968.

The decision not to use the Rocket symbol but a common logo of Pakatan Harapan – PKR’s blue eye symbol – in the 14GE is both a supreme sacrifice  and strategy to send out the important message, particularly to the 3.6 million UMNO members and one million PAS members, that the time has come for everyone in Malaysia, particularly in Peninsular Malaysia, to rise above race, religion, region or even political party to vote solidly as one Malaysian people to Save Malaysia from hurtling along the trajectory of a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

In taking this critical decision, the DAP Central Executive Committee has not and will not betray the DAP objectives and principles, but enable the  Rocket spirit to soar even higher to fulfill the  Malaysian Dream of Malaysians down the decades!

DAP is  accused of being peninsular party in Sabah and Sarawak, but with the Rocket only to be seen in Sabah and Sarawak, it would appear that DAP has become a Sabah/Sarawak-based political party!

Malaysia has  failed to live up to the Malaysian Dream, and instead of being a show-case to the world of an united, harmonious, successful, progressive and prosperous nation created out of the best of the diverse races, languages, religions and cultures that  meet in confluence in Malaysia, we are scorned and mocked by the whole world as a rogue state and a global kleptocracy.

The 14GE is the last opportunity for Malaysians to tell the whole world that they do not want Malaysia to become a global kleptocracy.

We want to have a great Prime Minister who is held in  high esteem,  respected and admired by the world and not one who is scorned and looked askance  by the world as a rogue democrat and global kleptocrat.

We want a great Parliament which would jealously safeguard the good name of Malaysia and not allow it to be stained and tarred by the 3Is – infamy, ignominy and iniquity – of the 1MDB scandal and the nomenclature  of  a global kleptocracy; which would have done everything possible to safeguard, cleanse or purge Malaysia’s of the epithet of global kleptocracy by allowing questions and debates on the 1MDB scandal instead of banning it on the most ridiculous grounds; and which would not treat Members of Parliament of the Opposition with contempt by regarding them as  “transparent” as if they have become a “parliamentary ghost” whom  the Speaker and Deputy Speakers cannot see, although I have been attending Parliament daily and diligently for the last six sittings of Parliament.

We want a great Judiciary and a great  justice system – and as I said in Sandakan last night, where Malaysians know why Sabahan Tan Sri Richard Malanjum is not  Chief Justice of Malaysia and why the first Sabahan to be made Attorney-General had been summarily sacked from his office in July 2015!

How can Malaysia be great again under Barisan Nasional when the Barisan Nasional is responsible for Malaysia’s fall from greatness.

Only a Pakatan Harapan Federal Government can make Malaysia great again!

If Pakatan Harapan wins the 14th General Election, it will also see the final playing out of the RAHMAN prediction, that the first six Prime Ministers of Malaysia will follow its  alphabetical order – with Tunku Abdul Rahman as the first Prime Minister, followed by Tun Abdul Razak, Tun Hussein Onn, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Abdullah Badawi and  Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

With the RAHMAN prediction running its course in the 14GE, it may be  replaced by a second prediction of MAHATHIR for  the next eight Prime Ministers of Malaysia

The first two alphabets of this prediction will be fulfilled if the Pakatan Harapan replaces UMNO/Barisan Nasional as the new Malaysian Government in Putrajaya in the 14th General Election.

This is because Pakatan Harapan has decided that Tun Mahathir Mohamad be the seventh Prime Minister while Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim would be the eighth Prime Minister – fulfilling the M and A in the second MAHATHIR prediction on the second series of Prime Ministers of Malaysia.

Whether the six Prime Ministers after Anwar will fit the second MAHATHIR prediction only time will tell.

(Speech at the Special DAP national delegates meeting  on the Pakatan Harapan common logo held at PJ Civic Hall on Monday, 9th April 2018 at 11 pm)

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Is Mahathir stooge of Lim Kit Siang, or Lim Kit Siang stooge of Mahathir?

Is Mahathir stooge of Lim Kit Siang or Lim Kit Siang stooge of Mahathir?

This is a question which had been haunting and dividing the UMNO/BN leadership, and it is one reason why speeches and statements by UMNO/BN leaders lack credibility and authority, reduced to the level of garbage and fake news.

Last week, the UMNO propaganda apparatus tested the waters to revive  a highly-funded and monstrous demonization campaign that Mahathir is only my stooge and that I would take over as Prime Minister if Pakatan Harapan wins the 14GE.

The role of firing the first salvo to revive such a dastardly demonization campaign was performed by the Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Minister, Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin, who advised PPBM members not to get “too excited” over the naming of Tun Mahathir as Pakatan Harapan’s Prime Minister-designate, on the ground that if  Pakatan Harapan do win the 14GE, the pact’s main choice for the prime minister would be Lim Kit Siang and not Mahathir.

Hamzah said:

“They just want Dr Mahathir to be the prime minister candidate so that Dr Mahathir will attack Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

“Lim and PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail do not believe in Dr Mahathir because they know if Dr Mahathir becomes the prime minister, he will make a U-Turn and put them all in jail again.

“They also know that Dr Mahathir’s mission is to see his son, Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) president Datuk Seri Mukhriz become the prime minister.”

Dare Hamzah deny that he had told such lies, false information and fake news?

In fact, in Langkawi where Mahathir might contest as a candidate, UMNO operatives are busy at work putting up a mushroom of provocative posters painting Mahathir as being subservient to DAP.

But MCA leaders led by the MCA President, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai are on an opposite trajectory, accusing me of being a stooge of Mahathir.

Liow alleged at the launch of the MCA’s 14GE Manifesto that DAP has betrayed the Malaysian Chinese electorate, and that “When Mahathir appears, the Rocket disappears”!

That was quite a brave and brazen statement from the MCA President when in all the previous thirteen general elections in the country since 1959, all the MCA leaders and candidates had never used the MCA logo!

Is Liow confessing that the MCA had been betraying the Chinese community right from the beginning?

So is Mahathir stooge of Lim Kit Siang, or Lim Kit Siang stooge of Mahathir?

Or are UMNO and MCA leaders, propagandists and quinoa cybertroopers going into the 14GE with both allegations, although they contradict each other?

Would MCA leaders dare to requisition a Barisan Nasional Supreme Council meeting to straighten out such a supreme contradiction in the UMNO/BN attacks on DAP and Pakatan Harapan in the 14GE?

Of course not, just as I do not expect the leaders of the eight Barisan Nasional component parties in Sabah and Sarawak to have the guts and gumption to requisition an emergency meeting of the Barisan Nasional Supreme Council to amend the Barisan Nasional 14GE Manifesto from “implementing Malaysia Agreement 1963 based on consensus” to a straightforward undertaking to implement MA1963, although I made the suggestion in Kota Kinabalu on Sunday.

“To implement Malaysia Agreement 1963 based on consensus” is a betrayal of the rights and interests of Sabahans and Sarawakians for all it needs to halt any implementation of the MA1963 proposals is for one of the 13 BN parties to object and there would be no consensus.

Why should the MA1963 proposals be open and subject to renegotiations when they had been signed and sealed 55 years ago by our forefathers?

I first suggested in Kota Kinabalu on Sunday that if Pakatan Harapan wins the 14GE, the  RAHMAN prediction on the first six Prime Ministers will be fulfilled and completed.

So far, the first six Prime Ministers of Malaysia had followed the RAHMAN prediction, keeping to its   alphabetical order – with Tunku Abdul Rahman as the first Prime Minister, followed by Tun Abdul Razak, Tun Hussein Onn, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Abdullah Badawi and  Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

With the RAHMAN prediction running its course in the 14GE, the seventh and eighth Prime Ministers with the alphabets of M and A may start a new prediction for  the new series of Prime Ministers of Malaysia.

I had light-heartedly suggested that the RAHMAN prediction may be replaced by MAHATHIR prediction as Pakatan Harapan has announced that if its win the 14GE, the seventh Prime Minister will be Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and the eighth Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

I have received a suggestion that the prediction on the second series of Prime Ministers should represent a place instead of a person, with the suggestion of MALAYSIA.

I am open-minded to the suggestion.

Whether the seventh to 14th Prime Ministers will following the alphabets MAHATHIR or MALAYSIA, let us leave it to the future.

The  immediate task is to win  the  present uphill battle to ensure that Pakatan Harapan can overcome  the impossible odds to form a new Malaysian Government in Putrajaya  in the 14GE,  with Mahathir as the seventh Prime Minister and Anwar as the eighth Prime Minister, and save Malaysia from hurtling towards the trajectory of a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

(Media Statement in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 11th April 2018)

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Reminder to Najib: “Unearthly silence” is no option with regard to Rafidah’s FaceBook posting about the 2007 Cabient paper on the privatisation of over 40,000 hectares of prime military land to a three-person company

Rafidah is spot-on. It is not just her, but the 15 million voters and 31 million Malaysians who want to hear from the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, with regard to Rafidah’s FaceBook posting about the 2007 Cabinet paper about the privatisation of over 40,000 hectares of prime military land in the country to a three-person company.

The media conference by the Defence Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, accusing Rafidah  of telling three big lies on the Mindef land, studiously avoided the subject as to whether towards the end of 2007, Najib as the then Defence Minister, had presented a Cabinet paper to get approval for the privatisation of more than 40,000 hectres of Mindef land throughout the country to a company owned by three individuals – two men and one woman – and the propsoal involved  a lease for four decades!

Hishammuddin’s media conference statement only whetted the apetite of Malaysians to know the truth about the proposed privatisation of more than 40,000 hectares of Mindef land throughout the country.

I fully agree with Rafidah that the Ministry of Defence has no locus standi to reply on behalf of Najijb, who must personally respond.

I wish to remind Najib what I said on Monday – that “unearthly silence” is no option for him,  nor is getting others to reply for him, whether Hishammuddin or Mindef,  to Rafidah’s FaceBook posting about the the 2007 Cabinet paper on the  privatisation of over 40,000 hectares of prime military land to a three-person company.

Let Najib answer directly and specifically to Rafidah’s FaceBook posting or Malaysians can only conclude that what Rafidah revealed in her FaceBook represented the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!

(Media Statement in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 11th April 2018)

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DAP decision not to use Rocket logo and instead to use Pakatan Harapan common logo of PKR’s blue eyes an affirmation that all Malaysians regardless of race, religion, region or political party must unite in 14GE to save Malaysia from a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state

It is a strange phenomenon indeed – the foes and critics of Rocket, and even  DAP traitors,  have become the greatest champions of the Rocket!

Suddenly, we have UMNO/BN leaders, propagandists and quinoa cybertroopers and their publications protesting against the decision of the DAP Central Executive Committee, backed by state and branch leaders at meetings convened in the past week, that the DAP had betrayed its political objectives and principles when deciding not to use the Rocket symbol in the 14th General Election but instead to use the  Pakatan Harapan common logo, which is PKR’s blue-eyes symbol.

At one end of the spectrum, DAP is accused of having sold itself to Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, not forgetting another UMNO/BN cybertrooper allegation that I had been paid RM1 billion by Mahathir to allow PPBM to join Pakatan Harapan; while at the other end of spectrum, the DAP is being accused of using Mahathri to split the Malay votes.

MCA President, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai alleged  at the launch of the MCA’s 14GE Manifesto that DAP has betrayed the Malaysian Chinese electorate, and that “When Mahathir appears, the Rocket disappears”!

But this did not prevent UMNO leaders, like the Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Minister, Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin, from advising  PPBM members not to get “too excited” over the naming of Tun Mahathir as Pakatan Harapan’s Prime Minister-designate, on the ground if  Pakatan Harapan do win the 14GE, the pact’s main choice for the prime minister would be Lim Kit Siang and not Mahathir.

When the UMNO/BN coalition can one and at the same time accuse me as stooge of Mahathir and Mahathir as my stooge, it has lost all moral compass, credibility and authority with its schizophrenic and Janus-like stances.

The DAP decision not to use the Rocket symbol is not an easy one. I had used the Rocket logo for 11 general elections and one by-election since 1968.

I do not deny that I have shed tears over the decision, just as have other DAP leaders – so dear  and close we hold the Rocket symbol.

But we have to overcome the personal pain and agony not to use  the Rocket symbol so as to use  the Pakatan Harapan common logo of PKR’s blue-eyes –  an affirmation that the time has come for all Malaysians regardless of race, religion, region or even political party, including the 3.6 million UMNO members and one million PAS members,  to unite in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 to Save Malaysia from a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

(Speech (2) at the opening of the DAP 14th GE Bootcamp in Damansara on Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 9.30 am)

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UMNO/BN want Malaysians to “lelong” away their rights and interests and those of future generations in the 14GE so that Malaysia can continue to be a global kleptocracy, with not only 1MDB scandal but also 2MDB, 3MDB and more 1MDB-like  scandals galore making international headlines but not in Malaysia

The Putrajaya Jualan Sentuhan Rakyat programme yesterday, where the Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Minister, Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin, accompanied by the Federal Territories  Minister, Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor and even the Chief Secretary to the government, Tan Sri Ali Hamsa, dished out groceries with big discounts is most saddening but very  symbolic.

It is a most symbolic characterization of what UMNO/BN want the 15 million Malaysian voters to do – to “lelong” away their rights and interests and those of future generations in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 so that Malaysia can continue to be a global kleptocracy, not only 1MDB scandal but also 2MDB, 3MDB and more 1MDB-line scandals galore making international  headlines but not in Malaysia.

Malaysiakini gave a most colourful report of the Putrajaya Jualan Sentuhan Rakyat programme, as follows:

“Goodies galore as caretaker minister slashes grocery prices

“Caretaker domestic trade, cooperatives, and consumerism minister Hamzah Zainuddin dished out groceries with big discounts during the Putrajaya Jualan Sentuhan Rakyat programme today.

“Armed with a microphone, Hamzah disrupted the already cheap sales by first lowering the price of whole chicken from RM7 to RM5, with a limit of four chickens per person.

“’When the minister sells, it will be cheaper. Why did you all rush? You should have waited for the minister,’ Hamzah joked with the crowd before slashing the price of chicken.

“He then caused a mad rush for rice when he announced that two bags of 10kg rice would be sold for just RM10, or RM5 per bag. The ‘Faiza Emas’ brand rice’s normal retail price is RM26 per 10kg bag.

“Other goods that Hamzah unilaterally slashed prices of, as he moved from stall to stall, included beef from RM20 per kg to RM15 as well as potatoes, onions, eggs, frozen fish, Milo and condensed milk.

“Each time he announced a discount, incumbent Putrajaya MP Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, chief secretary to the government Ali Hamsa and Umno permanent chairperson Badruddin Amiruldin assisted him by packing the goods for buyers and acting as impromptu cashiers.

“’Lelong, lelong,’ Tengku Adnan would yell while repeating the price of the newly discounted goods for good measure.

“Met by the press later, Tengku Adnan said the caretaker government wanted to ease the people’s burden with the programme.

“’We are grateful because the government of today always helps ease the people’s burdens. We want the rakyat to be happy. Don’t worry be happy. You’ve got BN!’ he exclaimed.

“Wholesalers who had already set up their stalls at the empty parking lot before Hamzah arrived told Malaysiakini they were caught off guard by his impromptu discounts.

“’I was shocked because we were already selling (whole chicken) at a low price (RM7) then the minister further subsidised it to RM5 and the response was good,’ Amnah Ibrahim, a public relations representative of major poultry company Leong Hup International, told Malaysiakini.

“Asked by reporters if the ministry would compensate the sellers, Hamzah responded: ‘That is between the domestic trade ministry and the wholesalers.’

Anyone at the “Goodies galore  at great discount galore” binge  at the Putrajajaya Jualan Sentuhan Rakyat programe would have been caught up and participated in the frenzy of great discounts galore for the goodies on sale, presided over by the Minister for Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Minister and funded from public coffers.

But is this right and what the 14th General Election is all about?

There is no doubt however that if Pakatan Rakyat had done the same thing, not using public funds but private funds, to conduct a similar “Goodies galore at great discount galore binge”, the police, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and the Election Commission would have swung into action and all those involved in the Pakatan Harapan “Goodies galore at Great Discount Galore binge” would have been called up for questioning, and all the discounted goodies whether chicken, beef, rice, potatoes, onions, eggs, frozen fish, Milo, condensed milk all seized by the authorities  as possible State evidence!

It is  most heart-breaking is to see how a  general election, which is to determine the future of the nation and that of Malaysian citizens and future generations has degenerated into a circus like the “Goodies galore at great discount galore binge’ involving not only Ministers but even the Chief Secretary of the Government, the No. 1 Public Servant of the country.

Would Tan Sri Hamsa Ali publicly apologise for such a shocking breach of proper decorum and behaviour by the topmost  public servant in the country, setting the worst possible example to the 1.6 million public servants?

I am reminded of the two factors highlighted by Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok in his Memoirs which caused the rise or fall of nations: Moral compass and the rule of law.

The Putrajaya Jualan Sentuhan Rakyat programme yesterday shows that under the UMNO/BN government, we have lost both – that we have a government without moral compass and  which has no respect for the rule of law!

This is in fact  what the 14th General Election is all about, to Save Malaysia and restore the moral compass and the rule of law, instead of hurtling towards the trajectory of a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

We want to reset nation building policies and directions by returning to the fundamental nation-building principles agreed by our forefathers and laid out in the Merdeka Constitution 1957 and Malaysia Agreement 1963, where we dare to dream again the Malaysian Dream to be a world top-class nation which could optimize and leverage on Malaysia’s assets – vast human talents; wealth of diversity of races, religions, languages and cultures; great natural resources – and respected and held in high esteem in the international arena instead of being scorned and held askance as a global kleptocracy as at present.

(Speech  at the opening of the DAP 14th GE Bootcamp in Damansara on Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 9 am)

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Will those who spread the lies and fake news  that DAP is stooge of Mahathir or Mahathir is stooge of DAP be investigated, arrested and prosecuted under the Anti-Fake News Act?

It is the height of utter contempt for press freedom that the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak used the launch of the inaugural National Journalists Day in Kuala Lumpur yesterdy to announce that the Anti-Fake News Act had come into effect.

It is rubbing the noses of Malaysian journalists, particularly those who have opposed the Anti-Fake News Bill, revelling in their discomfiture and failure to defeat the Anti-Fake News Bill.

Press freedom groups in Malaysia, as well as global watchdogs, had decried the bill as Putrajaya’s move to crack down on freedom of the press and freedom of speech.

Among others, concerns were raised over a mandatory ‘take down’ order which could be enforced against any alleged perpetrator of fake news.

Yes, Najib has won, but at what further price of Malaysia’s international repute and esteem – as Malaysia will now be scorned  and looked askance in the international community not only as a global kleptocracy but also as a rogue democracy.

Is it a badge of honour for Malaysia to be the first country in the world to pass a law specifically targetting individuals and organisations for allegedly spreading fake news, which could easily be abused to target non-minstream media outlets that publish reports not in line with Putrajaya’s views?

I have described the Anti-Fake News Bill as “Save Najib from 1MDB scandal” Bill, not to fight fake news to incite racial ill-will, hatred and enmity, but to proscribe reports about the 1MDB scandal and other corruption and kleptocracy in Malaysia as well as to give immunity and impunity to UMNO/BN leaders, propagandists and quinoa cybertroopers to concoct and peddle “fake news” against Pakatan Harapan and civil society leaders.

Will the Anti-Fake News Act 2018 end the deluge  of fake news, lies and demonization from UMNO/BN propagandists  that I am anti-Malay, anti-Islam; 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;   disband Malay Regiment; destroy Malaysia-China relations, and a litany of incredible fake news, false information and downright lies?

Will those who spread the lies and fake news  that DAP is stooge of Mahathir or Mahathir is stooge of DAP be investigated, arrested and prosecuted under the Anti-Fake News Act?

What confounds the imagination is Najib’s confirmation of  what media groups had said in their opposition to the Anti-Fake News legistation – that  there are already existing laws to punish the offence of fake news, like Section 8A of the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984.

(Media Statement in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 12th April 2018)

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Hang Tuah was right, Melayu takkan hilang di dunia – a Pakatan Harapan Federal Government  will prove that it is more successful, efficient and capable of looking after the rights and interests of all Malaysians, whether Malays, Chinese, Indian, Kadazans or Ibans than under UMNO/BN government

When I left Malacca 32 years ago to  contest in Penang, it was because we do not want to win only in Malacca,  we want also to win in Penang, Perak, Selangor and now in Johor in our struggle to achieve the Malaysian Dream of Malaysia becoming  an united and diverse world top-class nation.

When the DAP Central Executive Committee, together with national and state leaders, decided not to use the Rocket symbol in the 14th General Election, but to use instead  the Pakatan Harapan common logo of the PkR symbol of the blue-eye, it was the DAP’s supreme sacrifice and strategy to ensure that the 14GE is not battle of individuals or even political parties, but a national patriotic movement to Save Malaysia from becoming a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state

We do not want just DAP to win, but all the parties in Pakatan Harapan – PKR, Amanah and Bersatu – to win and we want to send out the message to all Malaysians that the time has come for everyone of the 15 million registered voters to rise above self, race, religion, region and even political party to vote as one Malaysian people, an affirmation that we are Malaysians first and our race, religion, region or even political party, second.

This is particularly a message to the 3.6 million UMNO members and one million PAS members to rally around this patriotic campaign to Save Malaysia in the 14GE by voting for Pakatan Harapan!

The decision not to use the Rocket had been a difficult, painful even heart-wrenching one. I had contested in 11 general elections and one by-election under the Rocket symbol and I do not deny that like other DAP leaders, I had shed tears over the decision.

But for the sake of the country and our children’s children, we must be brave to make difficult and even painful decisions.

Although the parliamentary constituency of Bukit Katil in Malacca has been redelineated and renamed Hang Tuah Jaya, I hope that the voters of Hang Tuah Jaya will continue to send PKR Vice President Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin to represent them in Parliament.

UMNO leaders, propagandists and quinoa cybertroopers have tried to create fear among the Malays that if UMNO is defeated, the Malays in Malaysia will perish and the Chinese will dominate and take over Malaysia.

Any rational or right-thinking Malay will see through the chicanery and humbug of  this immoral politics of fear and politics of race.

Let us remember Malay hero Hang Tuah’s pepatah “Takkan Melayu hilang di dunia”.

Hang Tuah is right. Melayu takkan hilang di dunia under a Pakatan Harapan Federal Governent as Pakatan Harapan will prove that it is more successful, efficient and capable of looking after the rights and interests of all Malaysians, whether Malays, Chinese, Indian, Kadazans or Ibans than under UMNO/BN government!

Pakatan Harapan not only wants to win the mandate to form the Malaysian Government in the 14GE, we want to prove in five years that Malaysians, whether Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans or Ibans, will get a better deal under a Pakatan Harapan government than under an UMNO/BN government, for we do not intend to be a one-term government but to continue to win the mandate of the electorate in the 15th, 16th and subsequent general elections!

When Merdeka was achieved in 1957, the Chinese represented some 37 per cent of the population. Now the Chinese represents some 24% of the population in Malaysia, which will fall below 20% after 2030.

These are not my figures, but official figures issued by the UMNO/BN Government.

How then is it possible for Malays to perish and the Chinese take over Malaysia, when the percentage of the Chinese in Malaysia have fallen from 37% in six decades to 24% and will continue to fall to below 20% in a decade’s time?

To be fair and frank, whether under Pakatan Harapan or UMNO/BN Malaysian Government, Malays will not perish in Malaysia and political power seized by the Chinese or other races.

How could this happen when there are three critical demographic factors embedded into the Malaysian system – firstly, the increasing Malay percentage in the Malaysian population; secondly, the  overwhelming majority of Malaysian voters are Malay voters and thirdly, the overwhelming majority of parliamentary and state assembly constituencies in the country  are Malay voter-majority constituencies.

Up to now, no UMNO leader, propagandist or cybertrooper has been answer the questions posed by  eminent DAP member and National Laureate Pak Samad as to how Malays can perish  in Malaysia if UMNO is defeated, when he asked:

*How are Malays under threat? How can religion (Islam) and Malays be threatened when those in power have been Malay for six decades?

*What have they (Malay leaders) been doing in six decades (if Malays can be under threat)?”

In actual fact, UMNO especially under Najib has not been looking after the rights and interest of the Malay populace,  but only those of UMNO cronies and kleptocrats.

I must thank the long-time UMNO MP for Johor Baru, who is FELDA Chairman and former Minister, Tan Sri Shahriri Abdul Samad, for an unique insight into the mentality and mindset of UMNO leaders.

I met Shahrir at the steps of the entrance of Parliament in the last week of the 13th Parliament.

He asked whether I was contesting against him in the Johor Baru parliamentary seat, and when I told him that it was not a DAP seat but a PKR seat, Shahrir said:“What DAP wants, DAP gets; what DAP wants, DAP takes”.

Shahrir is sorely mistaken, as in Malaysia, there is only one political party which has such a mentality and mindset, conducting itself along the line, “What I want, I get; what I want, I take” and that party is UMNO of Datuk Seri Najib Razak, resulting in UMNO hegemony in Barisan Nasional and Malaysia becoming a rogue democracy and a global kleptocracy.

In fact, in the political hegemony practiced by UMNO in Barisan Nasional, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad became a hegemon.

It is a sea-change for Mahathir in Pakatan Harapan, for Mahathir cannot be a hegemon in Pakatan Harapan but must become a consensus-builder, as the Pakatan Harapan is a coalition of equals while the Barisan Nasional is political band led by a UMNO  hegemon and 12 other subservient and servile political parties.

For instance, dare any one of the other 12 component parties in BN raise the 1MDB scandal, whether in Parliament, Cabinet or Barisan Nasional Supreme Council?

The 14th General Election is the supreme challenge of Malaysians for the country to join the ranks of normal democracies, where voters can peacefully and democratically change the Malaysian government through the ballot box without any threat of violence, chaos or catastrophe.

I call on the voters of Malacca to be in the frontline for this rendezvous with history!

(Speech at the Pakatan Harapan ceramah in Hang Tuah Jaya parliamentary constituency in Bukit Baru, Malacca on Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 10 pm)

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Will the “turtle egg” UMNO Minister and Utusan Malaysia  be arrested and charged under the Anti-Fake News Act for peddling the lies that Malay special rights and uniqueness of Islam would be eliminated in Malaysia if DAP and Pakatan Harapan win the 14GE?

The world’s first Anti-Fake News Act has come into force in Malaysia on Wednesday, after receiving the Royal Assent on April 9 and gazetted two days later.

Although the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Seri Azalina Othman denied that enforcement of the Anti-Fake News was  a strategy for the government to win the 14th General Election (GE14), arguing that it is  a law to protect the people in general, the test of the pudding is in the eating.

In today’s UMNO daily, Utusan Malaysia, the “turtle egg” UMNO Minister disseminated the fake news that every vote for the DAP is akin to give power to the Pakatan Harapan (PH) pact to eliminate Malay special rights and the uniqueness of Islam.

These are lies and fake news because all Pakatan Harapan basic documents, including Pakatan Harapan 14th General Election Manifesto,  had been most clear and specific in giving unconditional support to Article 153 on Malay special rights and Article 3 on Islam as the official religion of the Federation.

Will the “turtle egg” UMNO Minister and the UMNO print media, Utusan Malaysia, be arrested and charged under the Anti-Fake News Acf concocting and peddling lies and fake news that Malay Special Rights and the uniqueness of Islam would be eliminated in Malasia, if the Pakatan Harapan coalition wins in the 14GE?

In the past six decades, instead of a more united, harmonious, progressive and prosperous Malaysia, we see Malaysia falling behind more and more countries in various fields of human endeavor.

What is worse, there are people who are trying to put back the clock of Malaysian nation-building by sowing distrust, hatred and animosity  instead of fostering  greater tolerance, harmony and unity in multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-lingual  and multi-cultural Malaysia.

The “turtle-egg” UMNO Minister is one such character, who is trying to frame the 14th GE as  a battle between Malays and Chinese as well as between Islam and enemies of Islam, when it is in fact a battle between Najib and UMNO kleptocrats agaisnt the people of Malaysia.

The 14th General Election is a battle between Malaysians to want to save Malaysia from a kleptocracy ending up as a failed and rogue state and Malaysians who do not care whether Malaysia is the  international laughing-stock because we have become a global kleptocracy as a result of the multi-billion dollar international 1MDB money laundering scandal.

Malaysians, regardless of race or religion, deserve support if they stand up for a democratic Malaysia which upholds the principles of accountability and good governance; while Malaysians, regardless of race or religion, should be rejected if they stand for or defend Malaysia as a kleptocracy.

There are those who are trying to prevent the 14th General Election from producing the results of a national change of Federal Government in Putrajaya by the politics of lies, fear and hatred and falsely framing the next general election as a battle between the Malays and Chinese as well as between Islam and the enemies of Islam.

This is most irresponsible and dangerous, and if unchecked, could spark off chaos and conflagration in Malaysia.

Will the “turtle-egg” UMNO Minister be arrested and charged under the Anti-Fake News Act to save Malaysaia from  political desperades who are prepared to risk Malaysia’s peace, harmony and tolerance in a multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-lingual and multi-cultural society in pursuit of their seflish ends?

(Media Statement Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 13th April 2018)

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A Pakatan Harapan Federal Government will uphold the best Malaysia-China relations in the best interests of both countries and will not undermine the good ties between both countries

With the 14th General Election to be held on May 9, 2018 in less than three weeks’ time, lies, fake news and false propanganda have increased by leaps and bounds, fully justifying the warning of critics of the Anti-Fake News Act inside and outside the country that the new law would not be used to combat lies and fake news but was a new censorship to protect the UMNO/BN leaders from exposes of corruption like the 1MDB international money-laundering scandal.

One such lies, fake news and false propaganda is that a Pakatan Harapan Federal Government in Putrajaya will destroy Malaysia-China relations, when DAP had called for the diplomatic recognition of China in the sixties and the normalization of Malaysia-China ties in the seventies long before these events took place.

The Chairman of Pakatan Harapan, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, who will be the seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia if Pakatan Harapan succeeds in the 14th General Election next month to form the new Malaysian Government, has been pictured as “anti-China”.

This is one of the greatest ironies of Malaysian foreign policy.

I met a foremost Malaysian diplomat recently, Dennis Ignatius, whose 36-year diplomatic service in the  country included stints in London , Beijing and Washington D.C. and had served as Ambassador to  Chile, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, Paraguay and Uruguay, retiring after his appointment as Malaysian High Commissioner to  Canada from 2001 to 2008.

Dennis told me that  anyone who accused Mahathir of being anti-China is simply ignorant of history, as Mahathir was the one who really opened up Malaysia-China relations with his groundbreaking visit and discussions with Deng Xiaoping in 1985.

Despite the reservations of some of his colleagues in cabinet in the eighties, Mahathir pressed ahead with the full normalization of relations.

Malaysia’s relations with China are what they are today in no small part due to Mahathir’s farsightedness and courage.

Dennis said Mahathir worked tirelessly to involve China in the emerging regional economic and security infrastructure through initiatives like the East Asia Economic Caucus and the ASEAN dialogue mechanism.

Denis commented that until he broke ranks with UMNO, Mahathir was always feted as a great statesman in Beijing, another reminder that China doesn’t have permanent friends, only permanent interests.

I want to declare and stress tonight that a Pakatan Harapan Federal Government will uphold best Malaysia-China relations in the best interests of both countries and will not undermine the good ties between both countries.

Malaysia must remain an active  member of the international community and we cannot continue with the denial complex,  whether believing  that the 1MDB international scandal can be insulated  and quarantined away from the knowledge and consciousness of Malaysians or that we can ignore China’s emergence as a great political and economic powerhouse.

(Speech at the DAP Bukit Bintang  PLC Fund-raising Dinner in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 13th April 2018 at 10 pm)

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Najib is getting desperate about the UMNO/BN prospects for the 14GE in less than three weeks’ time

The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak must be getting desperate about the UMNO/BN prospects for the 14th General Elections or he would not be doing something which  he knew was wrong and illegal.

The announcement of RM53.6 million worth of aid  for 67,000 taxi drivers nation-wide yesterday is most improper and wrong – not something which a Prime Minister strict  about good governance principles or a caretaker government should do.

If the Najib government is genuine about giving over RM50 million of  assistance to the taxi drivers, why was it not done before the dissolution of Parliament  last Saturday, but only now when the caretaker government should not be making any  new grant or allocations until a new government is formed after the 14th General Election on May 9?

Has Najib suddenly been struck with a bout of panic after the dissolution of Parliament on April 7, fearing that UMNO/BN could be evicted from Putrajaya, forcing him to scamper about to find new ways to raid the national coffers to hand out to goodies to more Malaysians?

The whole episode, ending with some 30 taxi drivers getting hurt after they were caught in a rush to grab cards for RM800 worth of fuel aid after Najib’s announcement, was most unseemly and most disgraceful.

It was only infinitesimally more dignified than the  disgraceful “lelong” outing, known as  the Putrajaya Jualan Sentuhan Rakyat programme, the day before.

At the Putrajaya Jualan Sentuhan Rakyat programme,  the Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Minister, Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin, accompanied by the Federal Territories  Minister, Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor and the Chief Secretary to the government, Tan Sri Ali Hamsa, went  helter-skelter to dish out groceries with big discounts.

Armed with a microphone, Hamzah disrupted the already cheap sales going on and went helter-skelter to lower the price of chicken, beef, rice, potatoes, onions, eggs, frozen fish, Milo and condensed milk while the Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan and the Chief Secretary to the Government assisted in the “circus” by packing the goods for the buyers, with Tengku Adnan yelling: “Lelong, lelong”!

What is mortifying is that the bill for both the circus events of the Putrajaya Jualan Sentuhan Rakyat and the fuel aid for the cabbies are finally to be paid by the Malaysian taxpayers themselves!

I am reminded of the two factors highlighted by Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok in his Memoirs on the cause of the rise or fall of nations: Malaysia has lost the moral compass and there is no  rule of law.

Both “circus” binges have one thing in common: the perpetual government of Malaysia for 61 years have lost the moral compass and cease to know what is right from wrong.

Even worse, they have become very cynical practitioners of the art of power, for they dare to do what they did because they enjoy immunity and impunity from the rule of law – they know what they have done is wrong and illegal and but they know they can get away with such acts.

Will the Election Commission, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and the Police swing into action against those who had perpetrated these two circus events as violation of election laws?

Of course, not. Those who were responsible for these two circus events were confident that there is no rule of law here, that they are enjoy immunity and impunity for their open flouting of the most basic norms of a clean, free and fair elections.

May we, we should thank the Najib, Hamzah and Adnan for highlighting what the 14GE is all about – for the country to restore its moral compass and the rule of law.

(Media Statement in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 14th April 2018)

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PAS members and supporters in Selangor must decide whether to support Hadi and win at most one seat in Selangor State Assembly and no parliamentary seat or vote for Pakatan Harapan to end Malaysia’s shame  as a global kleptocracy and restore cleanliness and justice in Malaysian public life

PAS members and supporters in Selangor must decide whether to support PAS President, Abdul Hadi Awang and win at most one seat in Selangor State Assembly and no parliamentary seat or vote for Pakatan Harapan to end Malaysia infamy, ignominy  and iniquity as a global kleptocracy and restore cleanliness and justice in Malaysian public life.

Of the DAP’s 15 State Assembly seats and three parliamentary seats in Selangor before dissolution, PAS can play the spoiler’s role and theoretically threaten  the the Bangi (formerly Serdang) pariamentary seat  and three State Assembly seats of  Sekinchan, Kuala Kubu Baru and Sungai Pelek.

Hadi has made PAS into the first  Islamic party in the world to  co-operate and support a kleptocratic regime, which replaced the international respect, admiration and esteem enjoyed by Malaysia for over half a century into one of world-wide scorn and humiliation as a global kleptocracy.

I told UMNO/BN Ministers and MPs in Parliament that a kleptocracy is a government of four Ps – Pencuri, Perompak, Penyamun and Penyagak.

What I had not expected was that  the PAS leadership under Hadi could be very comfortable and “at home” to support and prop up the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, to help weather the international storm of disapproval and condemnation  arising from the international multi-billion dollar 1MDB money-laundering scandal.

Like Najib, Hadi has brought PAS to a new height.  In a short period of a few years, Najib had exchanged the international repute and esteem for Malaysia under the first five Prime Ministers, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak, Tun Hussein, Tun Mahathir and Tun Abdullah into world scorn and humiliation at being regarded  worldwide as a global kleptocracy.

Hadi’s “achievement” is no less than that of Najib, gaining international recognition as the first Islamic party in the world to support and prop up a global kleptocracy!

Hadi has changed a lot  – from the time when he had praised DAP as the only political party for defending PAS in its hour of greatest need in 1978,  when the PAS state government in Kelantan was toppled by UMNO.

DAP was once regarded by PAS as a friend of Islam, and Hadi is on record as saying that despite “our differences over alcohol, pork, hudud and halal matters, we have something in common, which is to stand up against corruption, injustice and to fight for fairness for all”.

But Hadi is now following the footsteps of the UMNO leaders, propagandists and quinoa cybertroopers, accusing the DAP of being anti-Malay and anti-Islam.

If DAP was anti-Malay and anti-Islam, why did Hadi led PAS in the agreement  to form Pakatan Rakyat in 2008 and  fought the 13th General Election on the platform of “PAS for All”, working with DAP?

DAP is a Malaysian political party, promoting the rights and interests of all races and religions in the country, and we have within our ranks Malaysians from all races and religions, whether Malays, Chinese, Indians, Ibans, Kadazans and Orang Asli; whether Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs or Taoists.

DAP is not anti-Malay and anti-Islam as demonstrated by the record of the ten-year DAP-led Penang State Government, serving interests of all Malaysians in Penang, regardless of race, religion or socio-economic background.

We cannot be anti-Malay or anti-Islam for this will be anti-Malaysian, which comprise the diverse races and religions in the country.

Why then are there people who insist on creating the scare that DAP is anti-Malay and anti-Islam when they know that these outrageous charges are fake news and false information?

The answer is very simple – these are the real enemies of a peaceful, harmonious united, progressive and prosperous multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-lingual and multi-cultural Malaysia who want to create disunity, division and discord by setting race against race and religion against religion because this is their only way to hold on to political power.

We are living in a very troubled world, where the voices of extremism and fanaticism want to hijack public discourse and mainstream space by preaching hate, distrust, suspicion, intolerance and conflict.

Malaysians must wake up and realise that moderates of whatever race, religion or politics will lose out by default to the extremists and fanatics, if they are not prepared to stand up to defend and fight for moderation in the country and refuse to cede any ground in public discourse or mainstream space by professing zero tolerance for extremism and fanaticism.

In Saudi Arabia, an important event will take place on Wednesday, 18th April, when the country’s first cinema in 35 years will open in Riyadh.

To serve a population of more than 32 million, the majority of whom are under 30, Saudi Arabia wants to set up around 350 cinemas with over 2,500 screens by 2030.

Does Hadi agree with such reform and advocate that cinemas be allowed in Kelantan?

The DAP decision not to use the Rocket logo, which had appeared in the ballot papers for eleven general elections from 1969 to 2013, was not an easy one, but a most painful and heart-wrenching decision for all DAP leaders.

For some five decades, the Rocket symbol had been identified with the uphill struggle, with many ups and downs, trials and tribulations, for an united, just, democratic, progressive and prosperous Malaysia.

DAP leaders have not  and will not abandon or betray  the DAP principles and struggles with the decision to use a Pakatan Harapan common logo and  not to use the Rocket logo, because the 14th General Election is probably the only opportunity in many decades for a change of Federal government and for Malaysia to take the first step to become a normal democracy where voters can change the government peacefully and democratically through the ballot box, without the threat of violence, chaos or catastrophe.

We want to ensure not only individual candidates and DAP can win in the 14th General Election, we want to ensure that all Pakatan Harapan candidates of  all the four component parties in Pakatan Harapan – DAP, PKR, AMANAH and Bersatu – can win over a simple majority of the 222 Parliamentary seats in Malaysia in the 14GE so as to form the next Federal Government in Malaysia to Save Malaysia from becoming a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

The DAP decision not to use the Rocket logo but the Pakaktan Harapan common logo of PKR’s blue eyes is  a supreme sacrifice of DAP and a supreme strategy and game-changer  by Pakatan Harapan to send  out a loud and clear message that the time has come for all Malaysians – including the 3.6 million UMNO members and one million PAS members – to rise above race, language, religion and even political parties to Save Malaysia so as to  reset nation-building policies and directions by returning to the fundamental principles laid out in the Malaysian Constitution and key nation-building documents like the Rukunegara for Malaysia to be a united, democratic, just, progressive and prosperous top-class nation in the world.

(Speech at the DAP Kota Alam Shah 14th General Election Fund Raising Dinner in Klang on Friday, 13th April 2018 at 8 pm)

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As Chairman of Barisan Nasional, will Najib assume full responsibility for the fake news by the BN Strategic communications that he, Najib, had returned most, if not all, of the RM2.6 billion donation he received in 2013?

As Chairman of Barisan Nasional, will Datuk Najib Razak assume full responsibility for the fake news by the Barisan Nasional strategic communications team that he, Najib, had returned most, if not all, of the RM2.6 billion donation he received in 2013?

This false claim was made by the BN strategic communications team today 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 today 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.

She further asked:

“Are donations not regarded as income and therefore taxable on the recipient?

“If the donation received by the prime minister was ‘tax exempt’, how was this allowed by IRB?”

It is most extraordinary that there was no reply from Inland Revenue Board but a response from the BN strategic communications team.

Has the BN strategic communications team taken over the Inland Revenue Board’s powers and responsibilities after Parliament’s dissolution during the interregnum of the Caretaker Government in the run-up to the 13th General Election on May 9 2018, and under what law and authority the BN strategic communications team can take over the powers and responsibilities of the Inland Revenue Board?

While we await a statement from the Inland Revenue Board, the clarification by the BN Strategic Communications Team is most intriguing.

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?

The reason Malaysia has overnight become a global kleptocracy is because of the international multi-billion dollar 1MDB money-laundering scandal, which involved Najib himself as he was at all relevant time the “top dog” in the 1MDB as Chairman of 1MDB Board of Advisors who exercised all the real and strategic powers in the company.

The three most important questions on 1MDB scandal are:

1. Whether Najib received RM2.6 billion donation from Saudi royalty;

2. Whether Najib returned RM2.1 billion to Saudi royalty; and

3. Whether 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” came from stolen 1MDB funds.

The answers to all these three questions about the 1MDB scandal are given, in great detail, in the US Department of Jusrice (DOJ)’s largest kleptocratic litigation to forfeit US$1.7 billion 1MDB-linked assets in the United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland.

They are all to be found in the 10 killer paragraphs in the US DOJ kleptocratic litigation – Paragraph 339 to 348 under the section “$681 MILLION WAS TRANSFERRED FROM THE TANORE ACCOUNT TO AN ACCOUNT BELONGING TO MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1”.

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.

The Anti-Fake News Act which was bull-dozed through Parliament before it was dissolved on April 7 has become law.

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?

(Speech Lim Kit Siang at the Pakatan Harapan ceramah in Batu Pahat,  Johor on Saturday, 14th April 2018 at 10 pm)

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Challenge to voters of Ledang to vote “1 Parliament and three DUN seats” for Pakatan Harapan as an example to all voters in Johor for 14GE – for PH to form Federal  and Johore State Governments

I have a challenge to the voters of Ledang parliamentary constituency – to vote “1 Parliament and 3 DUN seats” for Pakatan Harapan as an example to all voters in Johore for the 14th General Election in less than three weeks’ time, to pave the way for Pakatan Harapan to form the Federal Government in Putrajaya and the Johore State Government in Nusajaya.

This is indeed a very tall but not an impossible order.

This is something was completely unimaginable only ten years ago, when Johor was regarded as a “fixed deposit” state and unshakeable fortress for UMNO/BN.

But  a major breakthrough has taken place in the past decade, and in the 13th General Election

In 2013, the UMNO/BN stranglehold in Johor was destroyed when the Opposition won 18 out of 56 State Assembly seats – one seat short of denying UMNO/BN two-thirds State Assembly majority.

UMNO/BN lost its historic two-thirds majority in the Johor State Assembly when PPBM was formed with one Johor State Assemblyman.

Bukit Gambier was one of the earliest settlements in the history of Johor, with a history going back to some 150 years in the 19th century, older and more famous during its heyday  than many of Johor’s other famous sites, including Muar, Batu Pahat, Kluang and Segamat.

That was past history in the 19th Century. Bukit Gambir and Ledang have now a greater history to make in the 21st century.

I envisage three historic roles by the people of Bukit Gambir and surrounding areas in less than three weeks’ time on May 9  on the occasion of the Polling Day for the 14GE  – viz:

Firstly, set an example for the rest of Johor on May 9  to vote one Parliament and three State Assembly seats for Pakatan Harapan, i.e. the Ledang parliamentary seat and the Tangkak, Gambir and Serom State Assembly seats;

Secondly, to pave the way for Pakatan Harapan to beat UMNO/BN in the 14GE in Johor to form the new Johor State Government in Nusajaya;  and

Thirdly, to form the Federal Government in Putrajaya, the first time in six decades where Malaysian Voters can peacefully and democratically exercise their constitutional and democratic right to elect the new government in Malaysia.

When the wind of change blow strong and hard in the parliamentary seat of  Ledang and the three State Assembly seats of Tangkak, Gambir and Serom, then it will blow equally strong and hard in the rest of Johor as well as all over the country.

The 14GE is the last opportunity for Malaysians to tell the whole world that they do not want Malaysia to become a global kleptocracy and a rogud democracy.

The Barisan Nasional 14GE manifesto promised to make Malaysia into a greater country. How is this possible when in the past nine years under the Najib premiership, Malaysia had failed to show any signs of greatness in many important aspects of national life?

We do not have a great Prime Minister who is reviled worldwide as a 1MDB and kleptocratic Prime Minister.

We do not have a great Parliament, when in the last six days of Parliament, the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers developed a peculiar blindness where they could not see me, although I had daily and diligently attended Parliament.

We do not have a great judiciary and justice system, although the country has outstanding lawyers, jurists and even judges.

How can Malaysia be great again under Barisan Nasional when the Barisan Nasional is responsible for Malaysia’s fall from greatness.

Only a new Pakatan Harapan Federal Government in Putrajaya and a new PH Johore State Government in Nusajaya  can make Malaysia great again!

(Speech at the Pakatan Harapan ceramah at Bukit Gambir, Johor on Saturday, 14th April 2018 at 5 pm)

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DAP Mersing organizing fund-raising dinner although DAP not contesting in Mersing parliamentary or Tenggaroh and Endau State Assembly seats testimony of DAP commitment to ensure all Pakatan Harapan candidates win in 14GE

Tonight’s fund-raising dinner by the Mersing DAP Branch is most unique and significant.

DAP is not contesting in Mersing parliamentary or the two constituent Tenggaroh and Endau State Assembly seats.  PPBM will be contesting in Mersing parliamentary and  Endau State Assembly seat while PKR is contesting in the  Tenggaroh State Assembly seat.

Yet I am here tonight with the DAP’s candidate for Bakri, Yeo Bee Yin, to give full support for this dinner to urge the people of Mersing to solidly vote for the Bersatu candidates for Mersing parliamenentary seat and Endau State Assembly seat as well as PKR candidate for the Tenggaroh state assembly seat –  testimony of DAP’s commitment to ensure the victory of all Pakatan Harapan candidates,  whether PKR, Amanah, Bersatu or DAP, to win in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018.

This was the DAP’s supreme commitment to a victory by all Pakatan Harapan candidates in both Parliamentary and state assembly seats, not only in Johore, but in every state in Peninsular Malaysia that was behind the DAP leadership’s difficult and agonizing decision to make the great sacrifice not to use the Rocket logo in the 14th General Election but to use the Pakatan Harapan common logo of PKR’s blue-eyes logo.

This is why although this is a DAP and Rocket dinner, there is no Rocket logo, but only the Pakatah Harapan common logo of the PKR’s blue-eyes symbol!  This makes tonight’s dinner most historic in Malaysia  – as the first of its  kind in Malaysia for over half a century!

Let every Malaysian, organization and political party be prepared to make sacrifices for the supreme collective effort – first time in the nation’s 61-year history – to Save Malaysia from becoming  a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state to become an united, democratic, progressive, prosperous top-class world nation.

Our message to all Malaysians tonight is to unite as one strong and solid Malaysian people in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 regardless of race, religion, region or even political party, including the 3.6 million UMNO members, the one million MCA members and another million PAS members, to unite in the 14th General Election to vote for Pakatan Harapan on May 9, 2018 to Save Malaysia.

(Speech at the DAP Mersing Branch 14th General Election fund-raising dinner in Mersing on Sunday, April 15, 2018 at 8.30 pm)

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Will Malaysians create history and change the national leadership on May 9, as the Filipinos did on May 9, 2016 and the South Koreans did on May 9, 2017

Will Malaysians create history and change the national leadership on May 9, 2018 as the Filipinos did on May 9, 2016 when they changed their President and the South Koreans did on May 9, 2017 when they also changed their President.

Will there be a change of Federal Government in Putrajaya and a  new Johore State Government in Nusajaya on May 9, 2018?

The is the enormity of the historic decision the 15 million Malaysian voters will make on May 9, 2018, whether Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad will be elected as the seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia,  with Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as Deputy Prime Minister, to be followed by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia.

I am glad to come to Kampong Gajah in Paloh for the first time. I understand that this is a MCA fortress.

MCA does not have many fortresses left  in Malaysia or it would not have been reduced to a 7/11 political party, winning only seven MPs and 11 State Assembly representatives in the last general election.

Why did this happen?  The reasons were very simple – over the decades,  the MCA has failed the Malaysian Chinese and the Malaysian nation, with the country today being scorned and mocked worldwide as a global kleptocracy.

In my first visit to Kampong Gajah, I should have come with the Rocket logo – but we have instead the Pakatan Harapan common logo of the PKR blue-eye.

The DAP decision not to use the Rocket symbol is not an easy one. I had used the Rocket logo for 11 general elections and one by-election since 1968.

But we have to overcome the personal pain and agony not to use  the Rocket symbol so as to use the Pakatan Harapan common logo of PKR’s blue-eyes – a supreme sacrifice and strategy, a game changer, to affirm that the time has come for all Malaysians regardless of race, religion, region or even political party, including the 3.6 million UMNO members, the one million MCA members and another million PAS members,  to unite in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 to Save Malaysia from a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state to become an united, democratic, progressive, prosperous top-class world nation.

(Speech at the ceramah at Kampong Gajah, Paloh on Sunday, April 15, 2018 at 5 pm)

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