List of UMNO/BN slander will be as thick as Encyclopaedia Brittanica and challenge to a Najib-Kit Siang public encounter where each could cite 5 – 10  lies, fake news and false information over the past five years the other must be held personally responsible

The Prime Minister and UMNO President Datuk Seri Najib said that today that if he were to list down the slander from the opposition since the last general election, it would be as thick as the Kamus Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.

In a blog posting this morning, the BN chairperson noted how he and his family often fall victim to the opposition’s slander.

I have the greatest sympathy for Najib when he and his family fell victim to slander, but how could he be certain that Opposition leaders were responsible for them?

I myself have fallen victim to slander but can I hold him personally responsible?

My response to Najib blog is that if I am to list down the slander from UMNO/Barisan Nasional quarters since the last general election, it would be as thick as Encyclopaedia Brittanica, putting the Kamus Dewan to shame.

For general information, the last printed edition of Encyclopaedia Brittanica is a 32-volume running into 32,640 pages.

But let us focus on  slander which political leaders can be held to be responsible personally and directly – and I challenge the Prime Minister and UMNO/BN President to a  Najib-Kit Siang public encounter where each of us can cite five to ten lies, fake news and false information in the past five years  which the other must be held responsible.

If Najib’s conscience is clean and he is prepared for such a one-to-one public encounter, let him say so, and  we can move to the next stage of appointing representatives who will finalise the details with regard to the place, date and time as well as the  conditions of such a public encounter – live telecast, audience participation, etc.

Najib had said that  opposition leaders who spread such slander do not know the meaning of respect of their responsibilities as an elected leader of the people.

I agree. Let Najib respond to my challenge to a  one-to-one public encounter to  let the Malaysian public know whether we have a Prime Minister who does not know the meaning of respect or responsibility as Prime Minister of Malaysia!

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

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Najib should set a good example of  clean and honest politics  instead of being  the chief exponent of politics of fear, race and lies as Malays will continue to exercise political power in Malaysia whether UMNO is defeated in 14GE or not

The Prime Minister and UMNO President, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s fall-back to the politics of race, fear and lies in Lipis yesterday is  an indication of his  growing desperation  that UMNO will be ousted from Putrajaya by a Malay tsunami in the 14GE with the election of a new Pakatan Harapan Federal Government with Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad as the seventh Prime Minister and Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as the Deputy Prime Minister – with Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia.

In Lipis yesterday, Najib claimed that under the Pakatan Harapan, “absolute power rests in the hands of DAP”, portraying the 14th General Election as a fight between UMNO-led Barisan Nasional and DAP-led Pakatan Harapan.

Najib knows in his heart of hearts that what he said that “absolute power rests in the hands of DAP” or that Pakatan Harapan is “DAP-led” are not true, and that Pakatan Harapan operates on the principle of genuine consensus of the four component parties unlike Barisan Nasional where, to borrow the language of Tan Sri Shahrir Samad, what UMNO wants UMNO gets and what UMNO wants UMNO takes.

But these politics of race, fear and lies highlight the make-up of the Prime Minister and the length he is prepared to go to retain power in Malaysia, even to the extent of manufacturing and peddling lies, fake news and false information – confirming the worst fears that the Anti-Fake News Act bulldozed through Parliament before dissolution was not to combat fake news, but have the double objectives to censor exposes of corruption and abuses of power while giving immunity and impunity to  UMNO/BN leaders to peddle lies, fake news and false information against the Opposition – as what Najib did  in Lipis yesterday.

Najib should set a good example of  clean and honest politics  instead of being  the chief exponent of politics of fear, race and lies as Malays will continue to exercise political power whether UMNO is defeated in 14GE or no

The fears that UMNO leaders have been generating to keep themselves in power – that if UMNO is defeated in a general election, Malays will lose political power and become strangers in their own land – is a great double lie, for the Malays will not lose political power if UMNO is evicted from Putrajaya.

Three demographic factors, and even more important, a critical electoral factor, will prove that UMNO leaders were spouting lies and falsehoods when they try to panic Malays into thinking that without UMNO, Malays will perish.

The incontrovertible fact is that Malays will not lose political power whatever happens to Najib or to UMNO in the next general election.

In 1957, Malaya’s population comprised 49.8% Malays, 37.2% Chinese, 11.1% Indians and 2% Other.s

In 1970 Malaysia’s population comprised 44.32% Malays, 34.34% Chinese, 8.99% Indians, 11.89% non-Malay Bumiputeras, 0.67% others.

In 2010, the percentage of Malays in the Malaysian population increased to 55.07%, Chinese reduced to 24.34%, Indians dropped to 7.35%, non-Malay Bumiputeras maintained at 11.94% and 1.3% others.

The Malaysian Chief Statistician has predicted that the Chinese percentage of the population would shrink to 19.6% in 2030 and 18.9% in 2035.

Why then are the UMNO leaders continue to beat the drum of the “Chinese peril” in Malaysia?

During the 13th general election, 52.63% of the voters were Malays, 29.68% Chinese, 7.31% Indians, 8.96% non-Malay Bumiputeras and 1.43% others.

Out of the 165 Parliamentary seats in Peninsular Malaysia, 114 are Malay majority seats representing some 70%, 22 Chinese majority seats (13%) and 29 mixed seats. There is not a single Indian majority seat.

These triple demographic factors, which will be a continuing trend in the coming years, establish the overwhelming Malay predominance in the Malaysian political scene and why there is no way the Malays can lose political power if UMNO is defeated in a general election!

But apart from these three demographic factors, there is the critical democratic factor which will ensure that the Malays will not lose their rights and become strangers in their own land as warned by UMNO leaders.

We in Pakatan Harapan wants to win not just the 14th General Election, but also future general elections – the 15th, 16th and others thereafter.

A Pakatan Harapan Federal Government which wants its government mandate to be renewed in subsequent General Elections must be able prove in the next five years before the 15GE that a Pakatran Harapan Government in Putrajaya is better than UMNO/BN government for all Malaysians, whether Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Ibans or Orang Asli or be voted out of Putrajaya in the 15th General Election in five years’ time.

The three demographic factors together with this critical electoral factor are the surest guarantee that the UMNO threat that Malays will perish if UMNO is defeated is an empty one, with no basis or truth whatsoever.

But a question that is worth asking is why the Prime Minister is  himself concocting and  peddling such lies, fake news and false information when he should leave such “dirty work” to his underlings, as he should at least put up  an appearance of being anti-fake news after the bulldozing of the Anti-Fake News Act before the dissolution of Parliament.

There can only be one explanation – Najib’s fears that he would be ousted from Putrajaya are  increasing daily by leaps and bounds, and his desperation has made him to spearhead the UMNO/BN campaign of race, hate and lies himself, as he finds that his underlings and subordinates, including those receiving handsome rumerations are not effective at all.

(Media Statement in Ipoh on Thursday, 26th April 2018 after a  kopitam dialogue in Kepayang, Ipoh)

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The view that Iskandar Puteri is a “sure win” is as mistaken  as the view in 2013 that Gelang Patah was a “sure lose” contest

Seven parliamentary constituencies will be the first-line  “star” constituencies in the battle of Save Malaysia to Set Malaysia Free from  UMNO/BN misrule, corruption, abuses of power, injustices and exploitation.

They are Ayer Hitam, Teluk Intan, and Stampin (where Johore, Perak and Sarawak  DAP State Chairman respectively, i.e. Liew Chin Tong, Nga Kor Ming and Chong Chieng Jen have left comparatively safe seats to  contest in high-risk constituencies to spark a Malaysian Tsunami to oust UMNO/BN from Putrajaya for the first time in 61 years), Seremban (where DAP National Organising Secretary and Negri Sembilan State Chairman Anthony Loke has refused to relocate to safer seat but to stay put in Seremban although it has become a very risky seat as  result of the gerrymandering in the constituency redelineation), Langkawai (where Tun Mahathir will contesting), Pagoh (Tan Sri Muhyiddin contesting) and Semporna (Shafie Apdal contesting).

The second-line “star” constituencies in the 14th General Election will include Iskandar Puteri, Jerlun (Mukhriz Mahathir), Kota Raja (Mat Sabu), Kota Baru (Husam Musa), Bentong, Labis and Kluang.

I remember when I moved from Ipoh Timor parliamentary constituency in Perak   to contest in  Gelang Patah in Johor in the 2013 General Election, many felt it was a foolhardy decision to move from a very safe seat to a high-risk one.

There were even those who regard the Gelang Patah seat was a “sure lose” one for me in 2013.

Now there is the view that the Iskandar Puteri parliamentary constituency in Johore is a “sure win” for me.

The view that Iskandar Puteri is a “sure win” in the 14GE  is as mistaken  as the view in  that Gelang Patah was a “sure lose” in the 13GE in 2013.

There is no doubt that as a result of gerrymandering in the latest constituency redelineation exercise, Iskandar Puteri has become a more risky seat than Gelang Patah.

Gelang Patah’s racial breakdown  of the electorate in 2013 was 53% Chinese, 34% Malays and 13% Indians. The racial breakdown of the electorate of Iskandar Puteri in the 14GE is Chinese 49%, Malays 38% and Indians 13%.

I thank the people of Gelang Patah for their vote and support since the 13th General Elelction, and I seek the vote and support of the people of Iskandar Puteri in the 14th General Election on May 9.

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

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

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

The ethnic breakdown for the 148 DAP candidates are:

Orang Asli –  1

Dayak      –  3

KDM        –  3

Malay      –  10

Indian     –  23

Chinese    – 108

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

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

– Jamaliah Jamaluddin, 29 – Bandar Utama, Selangor.

– Michelle Ng, 28 – Subang Jaya, Selangor.

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

– Choy Tsi Jen, 30 – Canning, Perak.

– Teoh Yee Chern, 28 – Astaka, Perak.

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

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

– Phoong Jin Zhe, 29 – Luyang, Sabah.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(Speech 2 at the Pakatan Harapan ceramah at Skudai on Wednesday, 25th April 2018 at 11 pm)

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Two messages to 15 million voters: one, the 14GE is all about Najib as Prime Minister; and two, it is opportunity once-in-61 years to “set Malaysia free”

I want through the first Pakatan Harapan ceramah in Skudai tonight since I was announced as DAP/Pakatan Harapan candidate for Iskandar Puteri to send out two messages to the 15 million voters in Malaysia, one, that the 14th General Election is all about Datuk Seri Najib Razak as Prime Minister; and two, the 14GE is an opportunity once-in-61 years to “set Malaysia free” from UMNO/BN misrule, corruption, abuses of power, injustices and exploitation.

I was in Sarawak three days ago and I found to my shock and horror that the SUPP is campaigning on the basis that the 14th General Election has nothing to do with Najib but about Sarawak’s right to self-determination.

I am sure that in Peninsular Malaysia, the component Barisan Nasional parties like MCA, Gerakan and MIC would be arguing along the same line, that the 14th General Election is not about Najib as the Prime Minister, but other secondary or subordinate issues.

Make no mistake  – the 14th General Election is all about Najib as the Prime Minister and all this signifies including  whether Malaysia should continue to  become a kleptocratic state and a rogue democracy.

When Malaysia was under the first five Prime Ministers, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Abdul Razak, Tun Hussein Onn, Tun Hussein Onn, Tun Mahathir Mohamad and Tun Abdullah Badawi, Malaysia was admired and respected by the world.

But under Najib’s premiership, Malaysia was scorned and looked askance by the international community as a global kleptocracy and a rogue democracy!

On May 9, 2018, Malaysians will have the opportunity, first time in 61 years, to change the Prime Minister by voting out UMNO/BN from Putrajaya, and electing a new Pakatan Harapan Federal Government and Tun Mahathir as the new Prime Minister and Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as the new Deputy Prime Minister.

The stage will also be set for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to become the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia.

The theme of the Barisan Nasional manifesto is “Bersama BN Hebatkan Negaraku” (With BN for a Greater Malaysia).

The BN Manifesto is wrong, misleading and “fake news” of the worst order 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!

The international watchdog group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its World Press Freedom Index today, and Malaysia fell one rank to come in at 145th out of 180 countries.

The country’s score, 47.41, also worsened from last year with an increase of 0.52. According to the index, a higher score indicates deteriorating press freedom.

Malaysia’s current ranking is  below countries like Thailand, Myanmar, India, Pakistan and Cambodia.

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

In the Electoral Integrity Index, Malaysia occupies a lowly ranking of No. 142 out of 158 countries lower than Indonesia ranked No.68, Singapore ranked 94 and Philippines ranked 101. Now, Malaysia will rank lower, with the latest constituency redelineation which is the worst gerrymandering in Malaysia in 61 years!

Is Malaysia great – greater than when we achieved nationhood in 1957 and formed Malaysia in 1963?

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)?

Trump has the dubious honour of scoring the lowest popularity rating of below 40% in his first year as US President, but Najib has “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!

In the international community of nations, Najib has brought odium and disrepute to Malaysia as a global kleptocrat and rogue democrat.

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 could not see me, and I could not participate in parliamentary debates and my vote was not counted during parliamentary votings.

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

I had been a Member of Parliament for 10 terms from 1969 to 2018, except for the tenth Parliament from 1999 to 2004, spanning 45 years from 1969.

However, I have not felt so ashamed as a MP than in the 13th Parliament.

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

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

This brings me to the second message about the 14GE tonight – that the 14GE is an opportunity once-in-61 years to “set Malaysia free” from UMNO/BN misrule, corruption, abuses of power,  injustices and exploitation.

This is why the DAP Central Executive Committee made the unprecedented decision not to use the Rocket logo but a common Pakatan Harapan logo of PKR’s blue-eyes as we want to set an example and send a clear and unmistakable message that the 14th General Election is the time when all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion region or even political party affiliation, should unite as Malaysians to save Malaysia from hurtling along the trajectory towards  failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

Let all Malaysians, including the 3.6 million UMNO members, one million MCA members, one million PAS members, rise above political party affiliation to “set Malaysia free” from UMNO/BN misrule, corruption, abuses of power,  injustices and exploitation so that all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region, could hold their heads high – whether inside or outside the country – as proud Malaysians!

Set Malaysia free by voting for Pakatan Harapan candidates!

(Speech at the Pakatan Harapan ceramah at Skudai on Wednesday, 25th April 2018 at 11 pm)

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Challenge to the 730-odd BN parliamentary and state assembly candidates to declare before Saturday’s nomination of 14GE candidates that they want full investigations into the 1MDB causing Malaysia to become a global kleptocracy and a rogue democracy

Nomination for parliamentary and state assembly candidates for the 14th General Elections is 36 hours away on Saturday.

There are 222 parliamentary constituencies and some 500 State Assembly Constituencies in  the states in Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah up for election on May 9, 2017.

I want to challenge the 730-odd BN parliamentary and state assembly candidates to declare before Nomination on Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 9 a.m. that they want full investigations into the international 1MDB money-laundering scandal, which spans the globe, causing Malaysia the ignominy, infamy and iniquity of a global kleptocray.

This will be a crucial test  as to whether the 730-odd BN parliamentary and State assembly candidates are men and women of principle and substance who are prepared to subordinate  their self-interest of being elected as MP or State Assembly representative to the greater interests of saving Malaysia from becoming a kleptocratic state and rogue democracy.

Let us see whether there is anyone among the 730-odd BN parliamentary and State assembly candidates, whether from UMNO, MCA, MIC, Gerakan or anyone of the Sarawak and Sabah component parties of Barisan Nasional who are prepared to decline nomination as a BN candidate, whether for Parliament or State Assembly elections, because the UMNO/BN leadership must bear full responsibility for the 1MDB scandal and Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy.

Najib believes that he could get away from full accounting for the 1MDB scandal in the 14th general election, by obsfucasting and virtually censoring detailed examination and debate of what the US Attorney-General Jeff Sessions had described as “kleptocracy at its worst”.

If Najib succeeds in burying the 1MDB scandal as an important issue in the 14th General Election, the 1MDB scandal would become not only the “heist of the century”, but the biggest electoral fraud in Malaysian history.

(Speech at the opening of the  DAP Election Centre in Kampar on Sunday, 26th April 2018 at 8 pm)

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Despite  adverse Merdeka Centre findings, 15 million Malaysian voters can create a Brexit-like upset and replace UMNO/BN with Pakatan Harapan Federal Government in 14GE

Yesterday, pollster Merdeka Centre reported that Barisan Nasioal has recovered from its low approval ratings previously caused by the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the revelation of the 1MDB affair.

Its programme director Ibrahim Suffian presented data that showed sentiments towards the incumbent federal government had improved, with approval ratings increasing to 39 percent generally and to 47 percent among the Malays.

Ibahim said this was enough for BN to extend its hold on power in the 14th general election (GE14).

His graphs showed that back in 2015 when the GST was introduced and the 1MDB affair first came to light, general satisfaction with the direction of the country dropped drastically to 16 percent.

I do not accept fully the Merdeka Centre findings but it is a salutary reminder that the battle to defeat UMNO/BN in the 14th General Election is not going to be an easy one, although it is not impossible.

But we can take heart from recent developments where  pollsters were proved wrong, most famously in Brexit in United Kingdom and Donald Trump’s surprise US presidential  victory.

Malaysians can create an upset in the May 9 general elections by proving wrong the pollsters who predict a Barisan Nasional victory.

Despite  adverse Merdeka Centre findings, 15 million Malaysian voters can create a Brexit-like upset and replace UMNO/BN with Pakatan Harapan Federal Government in 14GE

To do this, Pakatan Harapan must aim to win 120 Parliamentary seats.

This is achievable although it is a very tall order, but this is the first opportunity in 61 years to bring about a change of Malaysian government through the ballot box, for if we miss this opportunity, a similar opportunity is unlikely to present itself for next two decades.

(Speech when opening the DAP Ayer Keroh election centre in Malacca on Friday, April 27, 2018 at 2 pm)

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I will sue Najib if he dares to accuse me of being anti-Malay and anti-Islam

Why is the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak playing up the spectre of the “Chinese peril” despite the community’s population having steadily declined over the years?

In 1957, Malaya’s population comprised 49.8% Malays, 37.2% Chinese, 11.1% Indians and 2% Others.

In 1970 Malaysia’s population comprised 44.32% Malays, 34.34% Chinese, 8.99% Indians, 11.89% non-Malay Bumiputeras, 0.67% others.

In 2010, the percentage of Malays in the Malaysian population increased to 55.07%, Chinese reduced to 24.34%, Indians dropped to 7.35%, non-Malay Bumiputeras maintained at 11.94% and 1.3% others.

After 2030, the percentage of the Chinese in the Malaysian population will fall below 20 percent, as the Malaysian Chief Statistician has predicted that the Chinese percentage of the population would shrink to 19.6% in 2030 and 18.9% in 2035.

There can only be one explanation for this paradox – Najib believes that the Malay tsunami is strong enough to defeat UMNO/BN in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 and he is doing his utmost  to scare the Malays about fictitious  “the Chinese peril” to ensure that they stay loyal to him and UMNO.

Najib alleged in  Lipis yesterday that under the Pakatan Harapan, “absolute power rests in the hands of DAP”, and he portrayed  the 14th General Election as a fight between UMNO-led Barisan Nasional and DAP-led Pakatan Harapan.

Najib knows in his heart of hearts that his statement that “absolute power rests in the hands of DAP” or that Pakatan Harapan is “DAP-led” are not true, and that Pakatan Harapan operates on the principle of genuine consensus of the four component parties unlike Barisan Nasional where, to borrow the language of Tan Sri Shahrir Samad, what UMNO wants UMNO gets and what UMNO wants UMNO takes.

I follow Najib’s speeches and statements very closely, and I notice that he has always been careful  not to accuse DAP and myself as anti-Malay and anti-Islam, but he always quoted Tun Mahathir’s statements in the past as authority  for such an allegation.

For instance, in his latest posts on his Facebook and Twitter accounts, Najib said:

“From my observation, Dr Mahathir is being merely used by DAP to split the Malay vote, as if the DAP is good to the Malays.

“The fact is, where’s the truth? Is DAP good to the Malays, to Islam? Dr Mahathir himself said the DAP is anti-Malay and anti-Islam.”

It is sad that a Malaysian Prime Minister who at one time had coined the 1Malaysia slogan to unite all Malaysians, regardless of race or religion, should now resort to such base  politics of race, fear, lies and hate to perpetuate his position as Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Yes, Tun Mahathir had previously accused the DAP as anti-Malay and anti-Islam – but that was before he learnt about the DAP’s true objectives and principles.

Now Mahathir has realised that his previous allegations against the DAP were misplaced and wrong, that DAP is very Malaysian-centric and Malaysian-minded, in keeping with the DAP objectives and principles that we must be Malaysian first and our race and religion second.

Is Najib prepared to acknowledge Mahathir’s admission that his past attacks on the DAP as anti-Malay and anti-Islam were wrong and misplaced, and accept Mahahtir’s discovery that the DAP is not anti-Malay and anti-Islam but very Malaysian-centric and Malaysian-minded.

Let me declare tonight that I will sue Najib in the courts if he dares to accuse me of being anti-Malay and anti-Islam, as this will be a downright lie and defamation.

I give Najib three days to accuse me of being anti-Malay and anti-Islam.

DAP is a Malaysian party, dedicated to promote the rights and welfare of all Malaysians, regardless of race or religion.

There is no place in DAP for anyone who is anti-Malay, anti-Chinese, anti-Indian, anti-Kadazan or anti-Dayak just as there is no place in DAP for anyone who is anti-Islam, anti-Buddhism, anti-Christianity, anti-Hinduism, anti-Sikhhism or anti-Taoism.

Najib has abandoned his 1Malaysia policy which shows his shallow commitment to Malaysia as a nation of many diversities. DAP however remains committed to the promotion of values and relations among Malaysians which transcend race and religion and promote national unity, harmony, tolerance and respect for the diverse ethnicities, languages, religions and cultures in Malaysia.

I urge Najib to  set a good example of  clean and honest politics in the 14th General Elections  instead of being  the chief exponent of politics of fear, race, lies and hate among the diverse races and religions in the country.

(Speech at the DAP/Pakatan Harapan ceramah in Ipoh on Thursday, 26th April 2018 at 10.30 pm)

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Johor State Government is now winnable for the first time in 61 years

One new feature of the 14th General Election is presented by Johore, where for the first time in 61 years, Johor State Government is winnable for the Opposition.

I have just seen the Malaysiakini report entitldd “Survey: Harapan, BN neck and neck in Johor popular vote” which fortifies this possibility.

The Malaysiakini report reads:

“Pakatan Harapan and BN are neck and neck in terms of popular vote in Johor, which is the birthplace of Umno, with less than two weeks to go before the May 9 general election.

“According to a survey by Merdeka Centre, the popular vote is 47 percent for BN and 42 percent for Harapan while PAS is at 11 percent.

“According to a racial breakdown, 60.9 percent Malays, 22.4 percent Chinese and 64.3 percent Indians are supporting BN as of April 9.

“For Harapan, 19.4 percent Malay, 77.6 percent Chinese and 32.7 percent Indian are supporting the opposition coalition.

“PAS has 19.2 percent Malay and three percent Indian support while Chinese backing is negligible for the Islamist party.

“However, for Harapan to have a realistic chance of capturing Nusajaya, it needs to win substantially more support than BN to overcome gerrymandering.

“Specifically, Harapan needs 10 percent more Malay support and five percent more Chinese support, according to Merdeka Centre executive director Ibrahim Suffian.

“’At this moment, they (Harapan) are not here yet.

“’You can see BN support among Malays in Johor have dropped but those who are not voting BN appear to be split between PAS and Harapan,’ he pointed out.”

“Merdeka Centre estimated that around 20.9 percent of Malay voters had moved from BN since the last general election.

“However, BN is still ahead in Johor despite suffering the worst drop in Malay support compared to other states due to a high base effect from the last general election.

“’If Harapan really wants to win, they need 10 percent more Malay support and up the Chinese support in order to cross the line and they have less than 14 days left to get things done,’ said Ibrahim.”

Be that as it may, the Merdeka Centre report shows that the Pakatan Harapan plan to replace UMNO/BN as the Johor State Government in Nusajaya is do-able; and even more important, that Johore can contribute a quota of 14 Parliamentary seats to the target of winning 120 Parliamentary seats in the 14GE to form the Malaysian Government in Putrajaya is within the realm of possibility on May 9 2018.

(Speech at the opening of the Cha’ah Election Centre in Labis Parliamentary seat, Johor on Friday, 27th April 2018 at 6.30 pm)

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Set Malaysia Free – let this be the objective of all Malaysians in the 14GE

This is my 12th General Elections participation, but for the first time in five decades, I will not be using the Rocket symbol. Instead I will be using the Pakatan Harapan common logo of the PKR’s blue-eyes.

This is not an easy decision for DAP leaders to make, as for more than half a century, DAP leaders and members have fought and suffered in the name of the Rocket, endured the ups and downs, the trials and tribulations of staying true to the DAP objectives and principles for Malaysian unity, harmony, integrity, justice, freedom and the rule of law.

I  was detained twice under the Internal Security Act, prosecuted in court and underwent various harassments as a DAP Member of Parliament; the DAP Secretary-General and Penang Chief Minister; Lim Guan Eng  was detained under the ISA, disqualified as MP for Kota Melaka and went to Kajang Prison for a year for defending the honour and dignity of an underaged Malay girl and was disenfranchised  and unable to cast his vote or stand for elective office for five years; many DAP leaders were jailed, prosecuted in court and their livelihood harassed in the past five decades because DAP leaders had remained true and loyal to DAP objectives and principles.

All this we did under the Roket symbol – so it was a most painful and heart-wrenching decision for DAP leaders to take not to use the Rocket symbol.

But extraordinary times call all for extraordinary responses  – and the 14th General Election is indeed an extraordinary occasion.

The DAP decision not to use the Rocket logo in the 14GE but to use a Pakatan Harapan common logo of PKR’s blue eyes is to send a message to all Malaysians to make sacrifices in the 14th General Election to rise above race, religion and even political party affiliation to unite as one Malaysian people to vote Pakatan Harapan for change of Malaysian Government in Putrajaya to save Malaysia and re-set nation-building policies and direction to fulfill the Malaysian Dream in the hearts and minds of every Malaysian.

It is a message to the 3.6 million UMNO members, one million MCA members and one million PAS members that under these extraordinary times, when Malaysia is the laughing stock of the world as a kleptocratic state and rogue democracy,  that it is our patriotic duty to unite as one Malaysian people transcending race, religion, region and political party affiliation to to Save Malaysia from a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state by voting for the Blue Eyes logo on May 9, 2018.

There are three reasons why the 14GE is unprecedented and historic.

Firstly, is the transformation of Johore from a UMNO/BN fixed deposit state into the front-line state for political change and national renewal in the 14GE.

Until the 2008 General Election, Johor was the impregnable and invincible state of Umno/BN, so much so that UMNO/BN leaders boasted about making Johore a zero-Opposition state in the 12th GE in 2008.

However, the political landscape in Johor underwent a drastic and fundamental change in the 12th and 13th General Elections, and Johor politics will never be the same again as compared to the first five decades after Merdeka in 1957.

In the 13th GE in 2013, the Opposition achieved the “Great Leap” forward in Johor trebling its  representation in the Johor State Assembly from six to 18 seats, and with the formation of PPBM which had one State Assemblyman in the Johore State Assembly, the UMNO/BN lost its two-thirds majority in the Johore State Assembly for the first time since Merdeka in 1957.

In fact, if there was a fair and democratic “one man, one vote” delineation of constituencies in the 13th General Election, the Opposition  should have won another eight seats, i.e.26 out of a total of 56 State Assembly seat in Johore, as the Opposition  secured 46% per cent of the total votes cast for the Johore State Assembly seats.

Now Johor is one of the state governments that Pakatan Harapan hopes to win in the 14GE, paving the way to the capture of Federal power in Putrajaya.

Secondly, this is not just a general election to elect the MP and State Assembly representative for the area.

Although general elections in Malaysia are held at least once in five years, the 2014 General Election is different from all the previous thirteen General Elections as it will also decide who is going to be the Prime Minister of Malaysia – Najib or Tun Mahathir.

The 14th General Election is virtually a direct Prime Ministerial election, which will not come the way of Malaysian voters for a long time.

If on May 9 two years ago the Filipinos can change their President, and on the same day last year, South Korean can also change their President, the question on May 9 this year is whether Malaysians can change the Prime Minister!

Thirdly, most important of all, the 14th General Election presents a golden opportunity for the first time in the 61-year history of the nation for the country to  apply the brakes and change course – to stop hurtling along the trajectory towards a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state and to begin to fulfill the Malaysian Dream of Malaysia as a world top-class natiohn.

Let me summarise the objectives of the 14th General Election in three words: “Set Malaysia Free” – from corruption, abuses of power, injustices and all forms of exploitation.

(Media Conference Statement at the Iskandar Puteri Nomination Centre in Johor Baru on Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 11 am)

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Although Pakatan Harapan has lost one seat on Nomination Day, efforts must be trebled nation-wide to reach the target of  winning 119 parliamentary seats on Polling Day on May 9

Ten day ago, I said that Pakatan Harapan should set a target of winning 120  of the total of 222 parliamentary  seats to earn the clear and unmistakable  right to form the new Malaysian Government in Putrajaya  which would show that a decisive majority of Malaysians no longer a kleptocratic and corrupt Barisan Nasional.

I said that this target is achievable especially if a Malaysian tsunami  sweeps across the nation bringing together Malays, Chinese, Indians, Ibans, Kadazans and others to vote against the BN and to strongly support Pakatan Harapan to form the next federal government.

To achieve this target of winning 120 parliamentary seats, Pakatan Harapan must defend all 89 parliament seats won by the opposition in the 13th General Election in 2013 and win another 31 out of the 56 marginal BN parliament seats in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak.

But Pakatan Harapan has started badly on Nomination Day, losing one parliamentary seat of Batu parliamentary seat when the PKR vice-president Tian Chua was disqualified from contesting on the ground that Tian Chua had been fined RM2,000 recently by the Shah Alam High Court, which was at odd with the decision in the 13th General Election, when Tian Chua  was allowed to contest in Batu despite a similar  conviction where Tian Chua was also fined RM2,000.

This is latest example of the bias and dirty tactics of the  entire Election Commission machinery to help Datuk Seri Najib Razak and UMNO/BN to steal the 14th General Election from the people of Malaysia

Although Pakatan Harapan has lost one seat on Nomination Day, efforts must now  be trebled nation-wide to reach the target of  winning 119 parliamentary seats on Polling Day on May 9.

All Malaysians who subscribe to the Malaysian Dream of wanting Malaysia to be a global  top-class nation which is a show-case and a model to the world of how a  nation of diverse races, religions, languages and cultures could unite and build a successful, harmonious, tolerant, democratic, progressive and prosperous nation must now redouble and even treble their efforts to win the last chance for democratic change in Malaysia for many generations.

The May 9, 2018 general election is not just one of 14 general elections since Merdeka in 1957  once-in-at-least-every-five-years to elect the State Assembly representative and Member of Parliament for the area, but the first time in 61 years for ordinary Malaysians to elect the Prime Minister of Malaysia for the next five years.

For there is no doubt that the vote every Malaysian voter will cast on May 9 will decide not only who is the State Assembly representative and MP for the area, but who will be the Prime Minister of Malaysia – whether Datuk Seri Najib Razak will continue as Prime Minister despite making Malaysia a global kleptocracy and rogue democracy, or whether Tun Dr. Mahahir Mohamad will return to Putrajaya as the seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia with Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as the Deputy Prime Minister, and Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Under  the Malaysian electoral system, voters do not elect Prime Ministers, but a concatenation of forces and developments have made the 14th General Election a most unique and unusual one where the voters will in effect be deciding on who will be the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

But Malaysians not only want a new Prime Minister, they want a new Malaysia. They do not want Datuk Seri Najib Razak to be Prime Minister of Malaysia, but even more important, they do not want a second Najib as Prime Minister.

This is what I told Tun Mahathir in February 2016 when he approached me for support for the Citizens’ Declaration campaign.

At that time, Mahathir’s main preoccupation was to force Najib’s resignation as Prime Minister, which was main thrust of  the draft Citizens’ Declaration.

I was of the view that while it is important to force Najib’s resignation as Prime Minister to end Malaysia’s ignominy, infamy and iniquity as a global kleptocracy as a result of the international 1MDB money-laundering scandal, it is even more important to ensue that there must be systemic reforms to ensure that there cannot be a second Najib in Putrajaya!

I suggested additions to the draft Citizens’ Declaration to affirm a commitment to institutional and systemic reforms to ensure that there cannot be a second Najib in Malaysia, and to his credit, Mahathir accepted my proposals which was incorporated into the  final Citizens’ Declaration.

In the ensuing months, Mahathir’s political development saw his full embrace of the programme for institutional and democratic reforms – that it is not only necessary to oust Najib from Putrajaya but to bring in a wholesale change and reforms to ensure that there cannot be a second Najib in Putrajaya in the future.

When Mahathir was Prime Minister and UMNO President for 22 years from 1981-2003, he was operating in a political milieu and environment  on UMNO hegemony, which was best indicated  by the UMNO veteran and Johor Bahru Member of Parliament, Shahrir Samad to mean: “What UMNO wants, UMNO gets; what UMNO wants, UMNO takes”.

This is still the Barisan Nasional political environment, milieu and culture – where the other 12 component parties in Barisan Nasional’s only role is to kow-tow to the wishes of UMNO “Big Brother”, even though UMNO is today an illegal political party.

Pakatan Harapan, which Mahathir leads, introduces a new political environment, milieu and culture – for none of  the four PH component parties exercises hegemony in the coalition.  All the four PH component parties of PKR, DAP, Amanah and Bersatu are equal and the PH coalition operates by consensus of the four, and not the hegemony of one, as in the case UMNO in Barisan Nasional.

This if the new political environment, milieu and culture which Pakatan Harapan is introducing replacing the UMNO hegemony in Barisan Nasional – and a commitment to institutional reforms in Malaysia when Pakatan Harapan forms the Malaysian Government on May 9, 2018.

(Speech at the Pakatan Harapan election ceramah at Skudai on Nomination Night on 28th April 2018 at 11 pm)

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Call on people of Iskandar Puteri to be the pivot of the national campaign to Save Malaysia and to take the first step for Malaysia to become a normal democracy

UMNO is confident that Barisan Nasional can defeat me in Iskander Puteri parliamentary constituency, believing that if MCA can get the support of 30 per cent of the Chinese votes, UMNO would do the rest.

UMNO strategists on how Barisan Nasional could defeat me in Iskander Puteri may be right or wrong, as only when the votes are opened and counted on May 9 would we know whether the UMNO/BN plan to end my 52-year political career in Iskandar Puteri will succeed.

But it is very sad that everywhere, BN coalition is just a political contraption to hide UMNO’s real  design to further marginalse the other Barisan Nasional component parties.

I am reminded of the words of the UMNO veteran and Johor Baru Member of Parliament, when we met 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”.

In Malaysia, there is only one political party which has such a mentality, mindset and culture of “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.

This could be seen in the recent Barisan Nasional decision on candidatures for the 14th General Election, and what happened to Tan Sri M. Kayveas, the MyPPP President, which is a case of UMNO dictating to one of the BN component parties about the sacking of its President!

The 14th General Election is a most unique one.

In the previous 13 general elections, voters decided who should be their MP or State Assembly representative.

This time, it is very different and more onerous. This is because the voters on May 9. 2018 will not only elect their MP and ADUN, but also the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Malaysian voters do not normally have such a right to elect the Prime Minister, but a combination of factors and forces have brought this about resulting in the 15 million voters  electoing  the Prime Minister of Malaysia on May 9 – whether Najib or Tun Mahathir.

This is why in the 14GE, we want not only to win Iskander Puteri, we want all candidates from Pakatan Harapan – whether DAP, PKR, Amanah or Bersatu – to win a minimum of 119 parliamentary seats to form the new Malaysian Government in Putrajaya.

Today, after my programme here, I have another six programmes – in Johor Jaya, Simpang Rengam, Batu Pahat, Kluang, Paloh and Labis. In the next few days, I will be visiting Johore, Negri Sembilan, Selangor, Pahang, Penang, Kedah, Sabah and Sarawak before returning to Iskander Puteri, and setting out again to Malacca and Perak and ending back in Iskander Puteri for Polling Day.

I call on the people of Iskander Puteri to help me to ensure that the highly-funded Barisan Nasional campaign to win Iskander Puteri does not succeed. In fact, I will go one step further, and ask the people of Iskandar Puteri to be the pivot of the national campaign to Save Malaysia and to take the first step for Malaysia to become a normal democracy.

(Speech at the  14GE kopitiam ceramah at Taman Universiti, Skudai on  Sunday, 29th April 2018 at 8.30 am)

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Malaysians must not be disheartened by loss of one parliamentary and five state assembly seats during Nomination Day yesterday but must work harder for People’s Power to triumph over Najib and UMNO/BN

I was confronted by a concerned Malaysian during the Johor Jaya walkabout asking what to do now that Pakatan Harapan has lost one parliamentary and five state assembly seats during Nomination Day yesterday.

I am sure that this is a question many Malaysians are asking, and my answer is that we should not be disheartened but must treble  our efforts to bring about political change in Malaysia and demonstrate that People’s Power can triump over the chicaneries and trickeries of Datuk Seri Najib Razak and UMNO/BN.

What has happened so far has only validated what the international magazine Economist reported recently that Najib Razak is a thief and would steal the 2018 general election.

The constituency redelineation, which is the worst gerrymandering in the nation’s 61-year history, together with the 3Ms of money, mass media and (government) machinery, the biggest theft of elections is set to take place on May 9, 2018.

This is why we must change the rules of the game, so that these calculations of these UMNO/BN strategists could be proven wrong.

We have so far three “game-changers”. Firstly, the Prime Minister and UMNO President for 22 years, Tun Mahathir Mohamad, leading Pakatan Harapan to bring about the downfall of UMNO/BN, changing considerably the dynamics of Malaysian politics, although UMNO/BN is escalating the politics of race, fear and hatred.

Secondly, the DAP decision not to use the Rocket logo which had been used for 52 years, to send a clear and unmistakable message that Malaysians must be prepared to make sacrifices and vote as a Malaysian, transcending race, religion, region and even political party affiliation, to support Pakatan Harapan to effect political change in Malaysia. This message is directed in particular at the 3.6 million UMNO members, one million MCA members and one million PAS members.

Thirdly, DAP leaders contesting in comparatively more risky constituencies to ensure that Pakatan Harapan can win every possible parliamentary seat so that Pakatan Harapan can win at least 119 parliamentary constituencies to form the new Malaysian Government on May 9, 2018.

Let Malaysians form and demonstrate People’s Power in the 14th General Elections by voting solidly for a Pakatan Harapan government in Putrajaya and in Nusajaya for a new Johor State Government as well.

(Speech at the  14GE kopitiam hustings at  Johor Jaya  on  Sunday, 29th April 2018 at 9.30 am)

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A Pakatan Harapan Malaysian Government will give priority to restore justice, freedom, rule of law and a clean and good government to Malaysians

If the Filipinos can change their President on May 9 two years ago, and the South Koreans can change their President on May 9 last year, the question is whether Malaysians can change their Prime Minister on May 9 this year.

If there is a change of Prime Minister on May 9, Datuk Seri Najib Razak will be the new Parliamentary Opposition Leader if he survives in UMNO, and Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad will be the seventh Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail the new Deputy Prime Minister creating history as the first Malaysian woman to hold this high post, while Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will be set to become the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia.

This will herald a political change and a re-set of nation-building policies and directions in Malaysia, and Malaysians will again dare to dream and work to achieve the Malaysian Dream to make Malaysia a world top-class nation instead of as at present, hurtling in the trajectory towards a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

A top priority if Pakatan Harapan forms the new Malaysian Government on May 9 will be to set up a high-powered commission to find ways to get the million-odd best and brightest Malaysians who form the Malaysian Diaspora all over the world to return to rebuild Malaysia; and secondly, to ensure that the new generation of Malaysians do not have to emigrate overseas so that their capabilities and talents can find fulfilment.

I am glad that we have with us the former Penang Deputy Chief Minister who is contesting as the Pakatan Harapan parliamentary candidate for Batu Pahat, Mohd Rashid Hasnor, who with the former Johore State Assembly leader Gan Peck Cheng (contesting in the Bandar Penggaram state assembly seat), Amanah’s Khairuddin Rahim (Senggarang), and PKR’s  Malik Faisal bin Ahmad (Rengit) make up a strong and impressive slate of candidates for the Batu Pahat parliamentary and state assembly seats.

We are all committed that a  Pakatan Harapan Malaysian Government in Putrajaya and a new PH Johore state government in Nusajaya will give priority to restore justice, freedom, rule of law and a clean and good government to Malaysians.

The 14th General Election is an opportunity for the 15 millions voters to “Set Malaysia Free” from corruption, abuses of power, injustices and exploitation which have become the hallmark of UMNO/BN rule in Malaysia – the most infamous of which is the 1MDB scandal which has given Malaysia the infamy, ignominy and iniquity as  global kleptocracy.

Only Malaysians can save Malaysia from UMNO/BN misrule, which is the most important issue to be decided on May 9, 2018.

(Speech in Batu Pahat on Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 3 pm)

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Has the MCA leadership, starting with MCA President Liow Tiong Lai, lost confidence in Najib that it is putting up Xi Jinping’s photograph on MCA election billboards instead of Najib?

The question swirling in the minds of Malaysians is whether the MCA leadership, starting with the MCA President, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai,  has lost confidence in the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, believing that Barisan Nasional would lose in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 that MCA is putting up the photograph of the China’s President, Xi Jinping on MCA billboards instead of that of Najib?

This is the latest sign of the political bankruptcy of MCA.

But what is shocking is the rude and inexcusable action of the Election Commission tearing out the image of Malaysia’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad – the most blatant being the Election Commission’s action this morning cutting out  Mahathir’s image from the billboard in Ayer Hitam, which had displayed the photographs of DAP/Pakatan Harapan candidate, Liew Ching Tong on the right, Tun Mahathir at the centre and the DAP/PH candidate for Yong Peng state assembly seat, Chew Pek Choo on the left.

I do not believe that the enforcement officers are happy at all in carrying out the most unreasonable and excessive orders to cut out Mahathir’s image from the election billboard, and the Prime Minister must explain why government servants are forced to do such an unpopular and unreasonable directive.

In my 52 years of political activities, I have not come across the majority of civil servants – who now constitute 1.6 million of the population – are so restive and unprepared to blindly follow the government’s directives, and I dare believe that what happened today  – to arbitrarily cut out the image of Mahathir from Pakatan Harapan election billboards – will further antagonize the majority of civil servants (excluding of course the top echelon of civil servants).

I call on Najib to send a clear and unmistakable directive, with him setting the example, that the 14th General Election should be a clean, fair and honest one, and that there should be no resort to the irresponsible politics of race, fear and hatred and that this should also be observed by all government authorities, including the Election Commission.

(Speech in Bahau on Monday, 29th April 2018 at 5 pm)

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Just as Chinese in Malaysia do not perish without MCA, Indians do not perish without MIC, Malays will not perish without UMNO

The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, said there is no Malay tsunami, but his actions belie his words.

He appears to be increasingly desperate that there will be a Malay tsunami, making him resort to the politics of race, hate and fear to an extent which had never been done by any Prime Minister and UMNO President before.

He even alleged that it is the DAP which is inventing the Malay tsunami.

But up and down the country, a Malay tsunami is in the making, and  the question is whether the Malay tsunami will be strong and powerful enough by Polling Day on May 9, 2018 to dislodge Najib and the UMNO/BN coalition from Putrajaya.

Pollster Merdeka Centre confirms that there is a Malay tsunami at the beginning of April,  but was of view that it was not strong enough to put  Pakatan Harapan in power.

But in Johore, Merdeka Centre reported that Pakatan Harapan and BN are neck and neck in terms of popular vote with less than two weeks to go before the May 9 general election.

According to the Merdeka Centre  survey, the popular vote is 47 percent for BN and 42 percent for Harapan while PAS is at 11 percent.

Everybody knows that in a general elections, events and perceptions are telescoped and shortened in an extraordinary way.

Such reports, however, have intensified the panic of Najib and UMNO/BN, threatening the Malays that if UMNO loses power in the 14GE, the Malays in Malaysia will perish.

This is nothing but the politics of fear and intimidation, which is not grounded in reality.

Just as the Chinese in Malaysia do not perish without MCA, Indians do not perish without MIC, Malays will not perish without UMNO!

The trouble with UMNO is that after  half a century of nationhood and being the party in power, UMNO leaders at all levels have forgotten that they are servants of the Malay race and the Malaysian people, and are acting as the  masters not only of the Malay race but the Malaysian people as well.

A defeat for UMNO in the 14GE will be a salutary lesson for the UMNO leaders to never forget the lessons of democracy – that leaders are always the servants of the people and never their masters.

(Speech in Paloh on Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 8 pm)

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Loss of one parliamentary and five state assembly seats on Nomination Day will fire up the spirit of Pakatan Harapan leaders, members and supporters to work trebly hard to effect change of the Prime Minister, governments and policies on May 9, 2018

The loss of one parliamentary seat and five state assembly seats on Nomination Day, instead of acting like a wet rag to dampen the enthusiasm of Pakatan Harapan leaders, members and supporters, will have the opposite effect of firing up their spirit and determination to work trebly hard to effect change of the Prime Minister, governments and policies on May 9, 2018.

Pakatan Harapan does not deny that the loss of one parliamentary and five state assembly seats on Nomination Day is a setback, but this is not the result of the choice of the voters but further example of the wholesale cheating, underhand and undemocratic tactics of the Najib administration to “steal” the 14th General Election so that he could stay in power as Prime Minister.

But Najib is very wrong if he thinks that the loss of one parliamentary and five state assembly seats will break the spirit of Pakatan Harapan for political change on May 9.

On the contrary, it will be regarded as a further but costly reminder that  the stakes on May 9, 2018 are very high, that this golden opportunity for the first political change in the country in 61 years must not be wasted, for such opportunity is not  going to return for a very long time.

Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the Chairman of Pakatan Harapan, is now 93 years old and nobody expects him to lead any movement for political change in the 15th General Election in five years’ time in  2023.

I am 77 years old and the 13th General Election is going to be my 12th and last general election battle.

Even Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will turn 71 in less than four months, and if Pakatan Harapan fails on May 9 to form the Malaysian Government in Putrajaya, which means that Anwar will not be the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia as earlier decided by the Pakatan Harapan Presidential Council, it is difficult to imagine him as in the forefront of a national campaign for political change in the 15th General Election in another five years.

The 14th General Election is a “now or never” and “Do or Die” Battle to effect political change which means a change of the Prime Minister, a new Malaysian Government in Putrajaya and a new Johore State Government in Nusajaya, as well new policies and nation-building directions for the country.

(Speech in Kluang on Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 5.30 pm)

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Pakatan Harapan has sent the brightest of the new generation of Malaysians to Johor to transform the state into a  frontier for political change in Malaysia

Pakatan Harapan has sent the brightest of the new generation of Malaysians in the 14th General Election to Johore to transform the state into a frontier for political change in Malaysia.

In the 13th General Election, DAP sent  party strategist Liew Chin Tong from Bukit Bendera in Penang to Kluang and DAP woman leader Teo Nie Ching from Serdang in Selangor to Kulai.

For the 14th General Election, Yeo Bee Yin, who won the Selangor State Assembly seat of Damansara with a majority of over 30,000 votes in 2013, have left a very safe seat to contest in a risky Bakri parliamentary seat in Johore.

Pakatan Harapan has sent a Malay intellectual, Dr. Maszlee Malik from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) to contest for the parliamentary seat of Simpang Renggam and three-time winner of Asia’s Best Speaker Award, Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman, 25, to contest in the parliamentary seat of Muar.

PKR has sent its youth leader, Akmal Nasir, INVOKE Chief Resource Office and Executive Director of National Oversight and Whistleblowers (NOW) to contest the Johor Bahru parliamentary seat while Amanah has sent its national organizing secretary and long-time champion of the rights of Felda settlers,   Suhaizan Kaiat to contest the Kukup state assembly seat.

For the first time in the nation’s 61-year history, the best of all Malaysian generations from all races and religions are coming together to bring about political change in Malaysia in the 14th General Elections on May 9, 2018.

I confess that I had to ask Bee Yin just now for the full name of the MP for Simpang Renggam. Although Liang Teck Meng had been a Member of Parliament for Simpang Renggam, he has failed to make any impression in Parliament in the past 10 years.

However, I must congratulate Teck Meng for creating world history – for as Chairman of the National Water Services Commission (SPAN), he must be the only Chairman of a water commission whose parliamentary constituency suffers from repeated rupture of water supplies, or polluted pipe-water supplies, whenever it rains – a problem which has afflicted Simpang Renggam for years with no solution in sight.

For his failure to resolve this most basic infrastructure problem, Liang should have resigned either as MP for Simpang Rengam or Chairman of SPAN or even both, but Liang had instead clung to both positions.

Can Liang give satisfactory explanation?

If Pakatan Harapan wins the 14GE and forms the Malaysian Government in Putrajaya, the piped water supply problem will be the top priority of the new government.

(Speech in Simpang Rengam n/v on Sunday, 29th April 2018 at 11 am)

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People of Buloh Kasap and Segamat join Malaysians to condemn the cutting out of Mahathir’s image from giant billboard in Ayer Hitam contest

The people of Buloh Kasap and Segamat join all right-thinking Malaysians to condemn the cutting out of the image of Malaysia’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad from a giant billboard in Ayer Hitam, featuring DAP/PH candidate for Ayer Hitam parliamentary constituency, Liew Ching Tong, Tun Mahathir and the DAP/PH candidate for Yong Peng state assembly seat, Chew Pek Choo.

I saw the photographs on Malaysiakini report on the cutting out of Mahathir’s image from the giant billboard half an hour ago, and I must confess that I was utterly shocked that such disrespect and contempt for the seniors and elders in the country could happen in so blatant and brazen a manner.

Let me say that it is not only the Chinese and Indians in Malaysia who are outraged at the contempt shown to Mahathir, I believe that the overwhelming majority of Malays in Malaysia will be equally outraged.

Why is Najib so frightened of Mahathir?

What has become of Malaysia where the most basic moral and religious precepts are being flouted, where the seniors and elders are treated with utter contempt while the thieves and liars are given exalted positions?

I must ask the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, whether this is the way he wants to win the 14th General Elections, as if the unfair and undemocratic disqualification of one parliamentary candidate and five state assembly candidates from Pakatan Harapan were not enough?

(Speech in Buloh Kasap, Segamat on Monday, April 3o, 2018 at 2 pm)

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14GE on May 9, 2018 is the “last mile” for Malaysians, who have been waiting for 61 years for political change – for a change of Prime Minister, the Malaysian Government and national policies for the fulfillment of the Malaysian Dream

The 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 is the “last mile” for Malaysians, who have been waiting for 61 years for political change – for a change of Prime Minister, the Malaysian Government and national policies for the fulfillment of the Malaysian Dream.

The 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 is unlike all the previous thirteen general elections in the six decades of Malaysian nationhood, when voters elected the Member of Parliament and the State Assembly representative in their respective areas.

But in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018, the 15 million Malaysians voters will not only elect their Member of Parliament and State Assembly representative, they will also elect the Prime Minister of Malaysia – whether Datuk Seri Najib Razak will continue as Prime Minister through a combination dirty electoral tactics, worst gerrymanderying in the nation’s history, and undemocratic laws and measures making a mockery of a free, fair and honest election, or whether Najib will be ousted from Putrajaya to be replaced by Tun Mahathir as the new Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as the new  Deputy Prime Mijnister – and Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Furthermore, a Malay tsunami is in the making.

The question is whether the Malay tsunami will be strong and powerful enough by Polling Day on May 9, 2018 to dislodge Najib and the UMNO/BN coalition from Putrajaya.

Pollster Merdeka Centre confirms that there is a Malay tsunami at the beginning of April, but was of view that it was not strong enough to put Pakatan Harapan in power.

Everybody knows that in a general election, events and perceptions are telescoped and shortened in an extraordinary way. A phenomena which normally take months to shape can happen within a matter of days.

The stakes on May 9, 2018 are very high and we must not waste this golden opportunity for the first political change in the country in 61 years for such an opportunity is not going to return for a very long time.

Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the Chairman of Pakatan Harapan, is now 93 years old and nobody expects him to lead any movement for political change in the 15th General Election in five years’ time in 2023.

I am 77 years old and the 13th General Election is going to be my 12th and last general election battle.

Even Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will turn 71 in less than four months, and if Pakatan Harapan fails on May 9 to form the Malaysian Government in Putrajaya, which means that Anwar will not be the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia as earlier decided by the Pakatan Harapan Presidential Council, it is difficult to imagine him as in the forefront of a national campaign for political change in the 15th General Election in another five years.

The 14th General Election is a “now or never” and “Do or Die” Battle to effect political change which means a change of the Prime Minister, a new Malaysian Government in Putrajaya as well new policies and nation-building directions for the country.

If the 15 million voters can walk the “last mile” for the first political change of Prime Minister, Malaysian Government and national policies on May 9, 2018, and vote for Pakatan Harapan, then it will embrace all the “last mile” which Barisan Nasional and its component parties had been promising but unable to complete in the past few decades.

(Speech in Nilai, Seremban on Monday, 30th April 2018 at 10.30 pm)

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I congratulate Rafidah for a most fantastic explanation why there must be a change of Prime Minister, Malaysian Government and national policies on May 9, 2018 – Old ginger is spicier

I congratulate former Cabinet Minister, Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, for a most fantastic explanation of why there must be a change of Prime Minister, Malaysian Government and national policies on May 9, 2018.

She said the house is falling apart, infested with pests, and it is time for a new contractor to fix it before it collapses.

Rafidah likened Malaysia to a large house, which provides shelter to its landlord – citizens of all races and creed.

She blamed the current contractor, prime minister Najib Abdul Razak and his workers, for its deplorable state.

Rafidah said it is imperative that BN’s five-year contract is terminated and the task is passed to someone with a proven track record like Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

She called on the people not to be sentimental about ending the old contract, cautioning that the house could collapse.

She said in her FaceBook posting:

“We need the new contractor to fix it now… don’t wait until the house which has stood strong all this while collapses.”

The former international trade and industry minister cited several reasons to hire a new contractor on May 9:

*Economic development is not as expected. There are only statistics to give the impression of growth. The fact is, people are facing cost of living issues

and increasing prices of goods.

*The burden of managing the country is placed on the shoulders of the people, for example, GST.

*The nation’s debt is worsening. This burden will be borne by the younger generation and coming generation.

*The erosion of foreign investor confidence, except China firms which have a plethora of agendas, which are related to the sale and purchase of land and 1MDB.

*The erosion of integrity among important institutions such as the police, attorney-general’s chambers, MACC, judiciary and so forth.

*But what is most glaring are the actions related to the 1MDB scandal.

Rafidah said the management of our house – Malaysia – by Najib & Co has become the laughing stock of the world and the subject of ridicule with Malaysians continue to bear the shame.

It has been said that old ginger is spicier, and I agree that this saying is fully apt in this particular case.

(Media Conference Statement in Karak on Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 5 pm)

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Najib has no equal as the best actor in Malaysian political arena

Although the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak has accused Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad as the No. 1 actor, who should get an Oscar for his acting, there is no doubt that Najib has no equal as the best actor in the Malaysian political arena.

Najib has three acting roles in the 14th General Election:

Firstly, pretending that the international multi-billion-dollar 1MDB money-laundering scandal which had given Malaysia the infamy of a global kleptocracy does not exist, that Malaysia had not lost a single sen from 1MDB scandal, and that there is good governance and full public accountability in Malaysia.

This requires acting of the first order, for the whole world knows that 1MDB is the  world’s “worst kleptocracy” to use the words of the United States Attorney-General, some 10 countries are investigating the 1MDB money-laundering scandal with several of them closing down financial institutions involved in the money-laundering scandal including several former bankers found guilty of money-laundering crimes and some serving prison time; and there is the evidence of the ill-gotten gains of 1MDB money-laundering gains like  the billion-ringgit Equanimity luxury superyacht impounded in Indonesia in February and the RM144 million pink diamond necklace bought for the wife of “MO1”.

Najib even claimed that the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) had cleared him of any wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal but he dared not accept my challenge  to a public encounter to quote chapter and verse to prove that the PAC report had indeed cleared him of wrongdoing – as what Najib claimed was a pure lie.

Najib planned for 1MDB CEO Arul Kandasamy to go on a national roadshow before the 14GE to explain the 1MDB scandal, but Arul has such absence of  credibility that nobody believes his fairy tales about the 1MDB scandal, as Najib himself dare not accept full accountability for the biggest kleptocratic scandal in the world

Secondly, acting and pretending that the 14th General Election is fair, honest and clean, when it is held under the most unfair and undemocratic circumstances,  with the worst gerrymandering of electoral constituencies, which will plunge Malaysia’s already very low ranking in the Electoral Integrity index further downwards, to the extent that the international media has reported about the “theft” of the 14GE in Malaysia – confirmed by the unfair and undemocratic disqualification of one parliamentary and five state assembly candidates from Pakatan Harapan on Nomination day.

Thirdly, pretending that he is a popular Prime Minister, when he is in fact the most unpopular Prime Minister in the nation’s 61-year history, to the extent that the MCA is putting up election billboards displaying the image of China President Xi Jinping and not that of the Malaysian Prime Minister.

Who then is the greater actor – Najib or Mahathir?

(Media Statement in Mentakab on Tuesday, 1st May 2018)

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Reject UMNO/BN on May 9, 2018 to Save Malaysia  from a kakistocracy now that we have become a global kleptocracy

The 14th General Election will be the most important general election Malaysians have ever had to face.

It will mark the first time in our history when a former prime minister leads the Opposition into battle against the party and coalition he once led. In doing so, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has rejected his old party, Umno, and condemned it as a party that no longer fights for the interests of the Malays and Malaysians. He has accused Umno’s leaders as being greedy, corrupt, power-crazy, and serving their own interests.

Many Malays who still revere Tun Mahathir may now be convinced to vote against Umno for the first time in their lives. They may now see in Pakatan Harapan an alternative to Barisan Nasional (BN). This will spark a new voting trend for many Malays. And it brings hope to Pakatan Harapan. For we cannot ignore the fact that GE14 will largely be decided by the Malays.

At the same time, we must also take note that Malaysians of all races have never been so distrustful and contemptuous of BN than now. The 1MDB scandal has tarnished the country’s good name throughout the world, with billions of ringgit of the people’s money stolen from the fund, some of it going to a high public official known as MO1. Other scandals have emerged, like those involving Felda and Mara, which further show how untrustworthy the so-called protectors of the people have become.

After a long-overdue reign of 61 years, the BN government has become not only a kleptocracy (i.e. government of thieves) but also a kakistocracy (i.e. government by the worst).

As a result of this, it is not only the Malays but the non-Malays as well who are suffering under the Najib Razak administration. They have been subjected to the rising cost of living, withdrawals of subsidies for essential items, the imposition of GST.

At the same time, they see the gap between the haves and the have-nots widening. BN leaders, particularly those from Umno, wear super-expensive watches, own luxury cars and huge houses, go on shopping sprees overseas, stay in six-star hotels when they travel, while the average Malaysians are eking out a living, some from hand to mouth.

These long-suffering Malaysians hear of money being siphoned from public projects, money being thrown around to secure positions in Umno, money being stolen by public officials from public funds, RM2.6 billion deposited in the private bank account of Najib Razak, the head of Umno and BN.

They have had enough. BN has lost its moral compass. When Cabinet members and leaders of the MCA, Gerakan and the MIC who are supposedly people of a certain level of intelligence can go on supporting MO1 who has been shamefully recognised globally as a kleptocrat, it is a sign that BN has lost its moral compass.

This is why GE14 is so important. It gives Malaysians the chance to vote BN out.

But as we go about this all-important task, we must be vigilant. We must not allow BN to steal the elections. It has tried to do so by passing the new redelineation proposals which are supposed to put the Opposition at a severe disadvantage. Najib Razak forsook his 1Malaysia slogan by endorsing new electoral boundaries that polarise the races, based on his belief that the Chinese are anti-BN and the Malays pro-BN. He also devalued the democratic rights of Opposition voters by corralling them in big numbers in some constituencies, the biggest being the mega parliamentary constituency of Damansara, which is disproportionately crammed with 174,000 voters.

BN has also bulldozed through Parliament in an unscrupulously hasty manner the Anti-Fake News Bill. With this law, it can denounce as “fake news” any reports about 1MDB that the Government has not first verified!

Meanwhile, BN itself can manufacture and peddle its own fake news with impunity, through the mainstream mass media that it owns and controls and also through unfounded claims made by BN leaders. The DAP, for instance, has been the victim of such fake news and claims, falsely accused of attempting to Christianise Malaysia and, most unjustly, of being anti-Malay and anti-Islam.

I, too, have had to face false claims made against me. One said I received RM1 billion from Mahathir, more than a RM1 billion from Israeli sources, RM100 million from tycoon Robert Kuok.

Another said I was Pakatan Harapan’s choice for prime minister, even after we had announced that Tun Mahathir was our prime minister-designate!

BN is also using underhand tactics to prevent the people from voting, from exercising their democratic right to choose the government they want. BN openly showed this when it set polling day on a weekday – and not just any weekday but a Wednesday, right in the middle of the week!

This is BN’s ploy to deter Malaysians working far away from their voting constituencies from returning to vote, as well as Malaysians working in Singapore or living overseas. This is because BN is afraid that a large voter turnout will work against it. The caretaker government was initially not even going to declare that day a public holiday, but pressure from the rakyat forced it to eventually back down.

The rakyat showed they had the power. Now all the more so Malaysians must make it a point to return and vote – to thwart BN’s dirty tactics and use their power to decide who should form the next government.

It is clear that BN desperately wants to remain in government. And it will stop at nothing to achieve this goal, including flouting the rule of law. After the dissolution of Parliament, when it had become merely a caretaker government, it violated election laws by, for instance, announcing goodies for taxi drivers worth RM53.6 million. A caretaker government is not allowed to dole out financial aids to anyone, and the Election Commission should take action against BN for this breach. But will it? No. Our institutions have become too compromised. The EC is not the neutral body it is supposed to be. Neither are the police, nor the MACC. And the mainstream media cannot be trusted to give balanced news.

What we need to do for the country after GE14 is to restore its moral compass and the rule of law, and resuscitate our institutions. BN will not be the coalition to do that. This is all the more reason why we must not let Najib and BN steal the elections. If we let them, we will be letting them steal the future of the country, the future of our children.

Under the BN hegemony, our democracy will suffer, our freedom will be curtailed, our public coffers will not be safe. Let us therefore seize this chance to make the two-coalition system a reality. For only when it has become a reality will Malaysian voters appreciate that BN is not the only coalition that can rule the country, that there can be good governance without BN.

When the country achieved Merdeka in 1957 and Malaysia was formed in 1963, we had a national vision expressed in the 1957 Merdeka and 1963 Malaysia Proclamations. Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman called on everyone in the country “to work and strive with hand and brain to create a new nation, inspired by the ideals of justice and liberty”, to pursue the great dream of a Malaysia of Excellence, Justice, Integrity, Compassion and Freedom, “ever seeking the welfare and happiness of its people and the maintenance of a just peace among all nations”.

This is our Malaysian Dream.

Let us dare to dream again the Malaysian Dream and showcase to the world our united, harmonious, successful, progressive and prosperous nation created out of the best of the diverse races, languages, religions and cultures that enrich Malaysia.

Let us shake off the disrepute we have acquired as a rogue state and a global kleptocracy, ruled by a false democrat. Let us have a great prime minister who is held in high esteem, respected and admired by the world, not one who is scorned and ridiculed by the world.

Let us have a great Parliament which will fiercely safeguard the good name of Malaysia by allowing questions and debates on the 1MDB scandal instead of banning it on the most ridiculous grounds. If the people’s representatives cannot question what has been globally acknowledged as one of the biggest corruption cases ever, who can?

Let us have a great judiciary and a great justice system. Let us have an independent MACC to combat corruption. Let us bring about a new Malaysiaand come together to regenerate hope and re-inspire Malaysians, regardless of race or religion.

GE14, more than any of the previous 13 general elections from 1959 to 2013, will be about the future of the country for the next 50 or even 100 years. Malaysians will be asked to cast their vote on May 9 not so much for themselves but for the future of their children and children’s children, and for the fate and state of the nation.

GE14 will be a battle royale of truth versus lies, of the people of Malaysia versus Najib-Umno-BN, of no more kleptocracy versus 2MDB, 3MDB and more!

We need a Malaysian tsunami. Voters need to come out in overwhelming numbers and overwhelmingly vote for Pakatan Harapan. When that happens, no amount of cheating, no amount of postal votes can steal victory from us.

So, people of Malaysia, come out and vote on May 9. Don’t let anything stop you. Vote BN out that day and make history. Then, with the help of the rakyat, Pakatan Harapan will make Malaysia great again!

(Speech when launching  booklet on the 14th General Elections entitled “Set Malaysia Free” in Dusun Tua, Selangor on Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 9 am)

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Xi Jinping is a great China President but a  foreign visitor to Malaysia would think that Xi Jinping is contesting in Malaysia’s 14GE

A foreign visitor to Malaysia would think that China President Xi Jinping is contesting in Malaysia’s 14th General Election on May 9, 2018.

Xi Jinping is an outstanding  leader and great  President of China, but is he contesting in the Malaysian general elections, where his photograph on giant billboards is put up all over the country, when even the image of Malaysia’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Tun Mahathir is summarily and unceremoniously torn out from Pakatan Harapan election billboards by Election Commission?

The MCA President, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, should explain why he is putting up giant billboards of Xi Jinping in Bentong and  in constituencies contested by MCA, and not billboards of the Barisan Nasional President and Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

Is this an admission that in his heart of hearts, the MCA President knows that Najib is the most unpopular Prime Minister in Malaysian history, responsible for the internationally infamous 1MDB money-laundering scandal which, overnight, turned Malaysia into a global kleptocracy and international outcast?

If so, why had there not been a single MCA Minister, Member of Parliament, State Assembly representative or leader who had dared to question Najib whether in Cabinet, Parliament or the Barisan Nasional Supreme Council or other BN forums  in the past five years on the 1MDB scandal?

Pakatan Harapan Members of Parliament persisted in our efforts to demand full accountability for the 1MDB scandal to cleanse and clear Malaysia’s international reputation, but for such patriotic efforts in Parliament, I was twice suspended from Parliament for six months each, and for the last six days of the 13th Parliament, the Parliament Speaker could not see me although I went into the Parliament Chambers every day and sat directly in front of the Speaker.

The failure of any MCA Minister, MP or leader to question the international multi-billion dollar 1MDB money-laundering scandal is the recent greatest betrayal of the Chinese in Malaysia as well as of all Malaysians, and demonstrates the impotence and irrelevance of MCA on serious questions about the future of Malaysia.

It is such political impotence and irrelevance which is the cause of the Malaysian Diaspora in the world, where Malaysians of all races, Chinese, Indians and Malays, are forced by the bad governance in Malaysia to emigrate overseas to seek greener pastures.

If Pakatan Harapan forms the new Malaysian government in Putrajaya in the 14GE on May 9, 2018, I will suggest that a top priority of the new Pakatan Harapan government the setting up a high-level commission to make recommendations to attract over a million of the best and brightest Malaysians in the Malaysian Diaspora all over the world to return to Malaysia to build home, family and country as well as to ensure that new generation of Malaysians do not have to emigrate overseas for their talents and capabilities to be fully recognized.

The recent 2018 Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTIC) report found that Singapore ranks No. 2 in talent competitiveness, while Malaysia ranks No. 27.

It is a shame that with Malaysia’s talents, Malaysia could not rank in the top 25 countries to attract and retain talent to make Malaysia a top world-class nation and this why a top priority of Pakatan Harapan Malaysian Government is for Malaysia to be among the top 25 countries in GTIC, starting with the million-strong Malaysian Diaspora worldwide.

(Speech in Rasah on Monday, 30th April 2018 at 8.30 pm)

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Five historic changes  in 14GE on May 9, 2018

I call on the voters of Kedah to write history by bringing  about five historic changes in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018, viz:

1.       Change the Malaysian Prime Minister;

2.       Change the Malaysian Government in Putrajaya;

3.       Change the Kedah Mentri Besar;

4.       Change the Kedah State Government; and

5.       Change the federal and state government polices which are detrimental to the interests and welfare of Malaysians.

I have just read the Malaysiakini report of a Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) survey which predicted that the Kedah State Assembly will be faced with a hung assembly following the May 9 polls.

According to Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani, who headed the research team, BN was predicted to win 16 out of 36 seats, followed by Pakatan Harapan (12) and PAS (8).

I conducted a straw poll immediately among the people who are here to attend the DAP ceramah, and there is incredulity and disbelief that PAS could win as many as eight seats, some thinking that it would be a miracle if PAS could win two seats!

There is also disbelief that Barisan Nasional could win 16 seats as it seems to be majority view that Pakatan Harapan can win more than half the Kedah State Assembly seats to form the next State Government of Kedah.

May 9 is therefore set to be a historic watershed in Malaysian History.

If the people of Philipines can change their President on May 9 two years ago, and the peop[le of South Korea changed their President  on the same date last year, there is no reason why on May 9 this year, Malaysians cannot change the Prime Minister.

(Speech at Derga, Kedah on Wednesday May 2, 2018 at 5 pm)

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If Mahathir is anti-Chinese, why MCA leaders were  prepared to serve under him as MCA Ministers, MPs, State Excos and State Assembly reps for 22 years?

Midway in the 11-day 14th General Election, the MCA/UMNO/Barisan Nasional election campaign has take a turn towards greater irresponsibility and dangerous trend in the politics of race, religion, fear, hate and lies.

Lies and falsehoods had been spread to accuse me of being anti-Malay and anti-Islam to create fear and hate among the Malays.

Now, there is a new twist that Tun Mahathir is anti-Chinese by MCA propagandists.

Let me ask the MCA leadership to explain why, if Mahathir is anti-Chinese, MCA leaders were prepared to serve under him as MCA Ministers, Members of Parliament, State Executive Councillors and State Assembly representatives for 22 years?

I was in Telemong, Karak and Lurah Bilut earlier before coming to Raub, and in Raub and Bentong parliamentary constituencies, there was the giant billboard of the MCA President Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai with China President, Xi Jinping, giving the impression to foreign visitors that Xi, the  great Chinese leader, is contesting in Pahang in Malaysia’s 14th General Election on May 9, 2018.

Of course, Xi Jinping is not contesting in Malaysia’s general elections, but the reliance of MCA leaders on Xi Jinping rather than on the Prime Minister and Barisan Nasional President, Datuk Seri Najb Razak on their giant election billboards, apart from breaking Election Commission rules, is an admission  of the realization of MCA leaders that Najib is a very unpopular leader in Malaysia.

Malaysians are entitlted to ask why Mahathir and Anwar Ibrahim’s pictures in Pakatan Harapan billboards are being torn out, while MCA leaders are allowed to exploit Xi Jinping’s photographs on their billboards.

If DAP had used Xi Jinping on DAP election billboards or publicity materials, the media and airwaves will be full of accusations by Barisan Nasional leaders  that the DAP is not only anti-Malay, anti-Islam, but also anti-Malaysia, that the DAP is disloyal to Malaysia and the fifth columnists for the Chinese communists in China.

Would the Barisan Nasional leaders make such accusations against the MCA leaders now, that we have Ministers and Barisan Nasional leaders who are unpatriotic and disloyal to Malaysia?

This is the first time in Malaysia’s six decades of nationhood that we have a Prime Minister who is not only unpopular in the country but world-wide, because he has made Malaysia into a global kleptocracy.

Najib has done what the first five Prime Ministers, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak, Tun Hussein, Tun Mahathir and Tun Abdullah in the first five decades of Malaysia have failed to do – to transform the world respect and admiration for Malaysia into a world scorn and humiliation for the country because we have suddenly become a global kleptocracy.

The 15 million voters must save Malaysia on May 9 and cleanse Malaysia of the international infamy and ignominy as a global kleptocracy.

We have seven days left for getting the message of Save Malaysia out to the voters, facing supreme odds from the most unfair and undemocratic election system in Malaysian history. On Nomination Day, Pakatan Harapan lost one parliamentary and five state assembly seats, not because of the will and decision of the voters, but because of the abuse of power by the Najib government.

This is why, for instance, I have to be in nine places in Selangor and Pahang today, and in eight places yesterday – starting with Iskandar Puteri, then Johor Jaya, Simpang Renggam, Batu Pahat, Kluang, Ayer Hitam, Paloh and Labis.

Pakatan Harapan leaders must work doubly, even trebly, hard to ensure that on May 9, Malaysia reaches a historic watershed – where we can change the Prime Minister, the Malaysian Government in Putrajaya as well as all the national policies inimical to the interests of Malaysia and the people of Malaysia.

(Speech in Raub on Tuesday, April 1, 2018 at 8.30 pm)

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