The most ominous implication of the Malacca general election is that Najib may become the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia

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The most ominous implication of the Malacca general election is that Najib Razak may become the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia in the national 15th General

Election.

Is this what Malaysians deserve, to get rid of the man who made Malaysia infamous as a “kleptocracy at its worst” and to receive him back four years later as a saviour of the nation freed of all corruption charges as if to install a model kleptocracy for the world?

No wonder a “letter to the editor” asked and commented:

“How did a convicted felon become a sensation in the Malacca election campaign?

“How a political coalition stacked with humongous corruption allegations and court proceedings won the hearts of voters is mind-blowing.”

Fortunately, this is not a foregone outcome in the forthcoming 15th general election.

Barisan Nasional won two-thirds majority of the seats in the new Malacca State Assembly but it did not win two-thirds of the votes cast in the polls on Nov. 20, 2021.

In fact, Barisan Nasional secured only 38.39% of the votes cast, an infinitesimal increase of 0.55 per cent of the votes cast as compared to the 2018 general election.

Clearly, Barisan Nasional does not have the mandate of the majority of Malaccans, let alone two-thirds majority of Malaccans, to rule the state.

There were 11 seats which Barisan Nasional won with less than 1,000-vote majority, eight against Pakatan Harapan (PH) and three against Perikatan Nasional (PN).

The voter turnout in the Malacca general election is 19% lower than in the 14th general election – 83.52% in the 14th general election as against 64.56% in 21 Malacaa general election.

DAP lost Pengkalan Batu by 131 votes, lost Duyong by 200 votes and lost Gadek by 559 votes; PKR lost Paya Rumput by 629 votes, lost Kelebang by 876 votes, lost Machap Jaya by 938 votes, lost Rembia by 860 votes; Amanah lost Durian Tunggal by 559 votes; Bersatu lost Tanjung Bidara by 364 votes and lost Pantai Kundar by 827 votes while PAS lost Serkam by 789 votes.

If these 11 seats had been won by PH and PN, the distribution of seats among the three coalitions in Malacca on Polling Day would be PH 13, BN 10 and PN 5.

The Malacca general election results remind me of my visit to Hang Tuah’s grave in Duyong, where I wondered whether the curse of corruption which had caused the fall of the Malacca empire more than 500 years ago would also be the cause of the downfall of Malacca and Malaysia in the 21st century.

Undoubtedly, the Malacca General Election is a setback for the DAP and Pakatan Harapan’s cause of Malaysian First, the Malaysian Constitution, the Rukun Negara, good governance and the rule of law.

Malaysians must not give up hope and the struggle for Malaysia to leverage on the best virtues and values of the four great civilizations which meet in Malaysia to make Malaysia a world-class great nation – even if the deadline is Malaysia’s Centennial in 2057.

Although there are political analysts who say the Malaysians are not interested in these principles, I am fortified by my visit to Bukit China during the Malacca election campaign, as Malaccans and Malaysians united to make a success of the “Save Bukit China campaign” as a national heritage 37 years ago, proof that Malaysians can and will also fight for principles and the national interests.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 23rd November 2021)

Kesan terburuk daripada PRN Melaka adalah Najib mungkin akan menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-10 Malaysia

Kesan terburuk daripada Pilihan Raya Negeri Melaka adalah Najib Razak mungkin akan menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-10 Malaysia selepas Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15.

Adakah ini perkara yang layak diterima rakyat Malaysia? Untuk menolak orang yang menjadikan negara kita terkenal sebagai “kleptokrasi terburuk” dan kemudiannya menerimanya semula empat tahun kemudian sebagai seorang penyelamat negara, yang dibebaskan daripada semua pertuduhan rasuah, seakan-akan mencuba untuk mewujudkan satu contoh terbaik kleptokrasi di dunia.

Tidak terkejutlah, sepucuk “surat kepada editor” bertanya perkara berikut:

“Bagaimana seorang yang tersabit bersalah boleh menjadi suatu perkara sensasi dalam kempen PRN Melaka?

“Bagaimana sebuah gabungan politik yang dipenuhi pertuduhan dan kes rasuah di mahkamah berjaya memenangi hati pengundi? Perkara ini amat mengagumkan.”

Nasib baik, perkara ini belum lagi menjadi satu perkara yang tidak boleh diubah sebelum PRU-15 yang akan datang.

Barisan Nasional memenangi majoriti dua pertiga kerusi dalam Dewan Undangan Negeri baharu negeri Melaka, tetapi parti tersebut tidak memenangi dua pertiga undi yang dibuang pada 20 November 2021.

Malah, Barisan Nasional hanya berjaya mendapat 38.39% undian daripada jumlah keseluruhan undian, peningkatan yang sangat kecil, sebanyak 0.55% berbanding dengan PRU pada tahun 2018.

Jelas sekali, Barisan Nasional tidak mempunyai mandat majoriti rakyat Melaka, apatah lagi dua pertiga, untuk memerintah negeri tersebut.

Terdapat 11 kerusi di mana Barisan Nasional menang dengan majoriti kurang daripada seribu undi, lapan di mana Pakatan Harapan berada di tempat kedua dan tiga di mana Perikatan Nasional berada di tempat kedua.

Kadar keluar mengundi di PRN Melaka ini adalah 19% lebih rendah berbanding dengan kadar keluar mengundi dalam PRU-14 — 83.52% dalam PRU-14 berbanding dengan 64.56% dalam PRN Melaka 2021.

DAP telah kalah di kerusi Pengkalan Batu dengan 131 undi, Duyong dengan 200 undi, Gadek dengan 559 undi; PKR pula kalah di Paya Rumput dengan 629 undi, Kelebang dengan 876 undi, Machap Jaya dengan 938 undi, dan Rembia dengan 860 undi; manakala Amanah kalah di Durian Tunggal dengan 559 undi. Bersatu kalah di Tanjung Bidara dan Pantai Kumbar dengan 364 dan 827 undi, dan PAS kalah di Serkam dengan 789 undi.

Sekiranya 11 kerusi ini telah dimenangi oleh PH dan PN, pembahagian kerusi di antara tiga gabungan politik ini akan menjadi PH 13, BN 10, dan PN5.

Keputusan Pilihan Raya Negeri Melaka ini mengingatkan saya kepada lawatan saya ke Makam Hang Tuah di Duyong, di mana saya terfikir sejenak, sama ada sumpahan rasuah yang telah menyebabkan kejatuhan empayar Melaka 500 tahun yang lalu juga akan sekali lagi menyebabkan kejatuhan Melaka dan Malaysia di abad ke-21.

Tidak ada ragu-ragu, PRN Melaka ini merupakan satu halangan kepada matlamat DAP dan Pakatan Harapan untuk Utamakan Malaysia, Perlembagaan Malaysia, Rukun Negara, tadbir urus yang baik, dan kedaulatan undang-undang.

Rakyat Malaysia tidak boleh berputus asa untuk terus menggunakan nilai terbaik pertemuan empat tamadun hebat dalam negara kita untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia — walaupun sekiranya perkara ini hanya dapat dicapai pada ulang tahun ke-100 penubuhan negara pada tahun 2057.

Walaupun terdapat penganalisa politik yang mengatakan rakyat Malaysia tidak berminat kepada prinsip-prinsip ini semua, saya diperkuatkan lagi selepas lawatan saya ke Bukit Cina semasa kempen PRN Melaka ini, kerana kejayaan kempen rakyat Melaka dan rakyat Malaysia, 37 tahun yang lepas, untuk “Selamatkan Bukit Cina” sebagai sebuah warisan kebangsaan adalah bukti yang kita boleh dan akan berjuang demi prinsip dan kepentingan negara.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 23 November 2021)

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Najib is hoping that he can sneak in and  become the 10th Malaysian Prime Minister  in the 15 GE without the question becoming the focal  issue of the country

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Najib Razak is hoping that he can sneak in and become the 10th Malaysian Prime Minister in the 15 General Election without the question become the focal issue of the country.

If Najib succeeds, Malaysia will again become the laughing stock of the world, in particular in Indonesia which had been catching up on Malaysia in the fight against corruption in the last two decades.

Malaysia is becoming more and more corrupt while Indonesia is becoming less and less corrupt – a trend which will be confirmed when Transparency International (TI) releases its 2021 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) in January 2022.

It will be a double whammy for Malaysia if the 15th General Election is held next year, with Najib returning as the 10th Prime Minister to coincide with the 2021 TI CPI, marking the downward trend for Malaysia in the war against corruption.

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that Malaysia is performing worse than Indonesia in the war against Covid-19.

Yesterday Indonesia recorded 394 daily new Covid-19 cases and nine daily Covid-19 deaths, as compared to 5,594 daily new Covid-19 cases and 47 daily Covid-19 deaths for Malaysia, marking the 111th consecutive day since August 18 when Indonesia recorded less daily new Covid-19 cases and the 50th consecutive day since Oct. 5 less daily Covid-19 deaths than Malaysia.

Yesterday was the third day since 19th November when daily Covid-19 deaths in Indonesia fell to single-digit numbers.

Are we to lose out to Indonesia in the war against Covid-19 pandemic as well as in fighting corruption?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, November 24, 2021)

Najib Razak berharap yang beliau boleh menyusup masuk dan menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-10 selepas Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 tanpa persoalan tersebut menjadi isu tumpuan negara

Najib Razak berharap yang beliau boleh menyusup masuk dan menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-10 dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 tanpa persoalan tersebut menjadi isu tumpuan negara.

Jika Najib berjaya, Malaysia akan sekali lagi menjadi bahan ketawa dunia, lebih-lebih lagi selepas Indonesia kini dilihat semakin mengejar Malaysia dalam perang melawan rasuah sejak dua dekad lalu.

Malaysia menjadi semakin korup, sementara Indonesia semakin pulih daripada amalan rasuah — sebuah trend yang akan disahkan selepas Transparency International (TI) mengeluarkan Indeks Persepsi Rasuah (CPI) 2021 pada Januari 2022 nanti.

Malaysia akan berdepan masalah berganda jika PRU15 diadakan tahun hadapan, dengan Najib kembali menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-10 dan dalam masa yang sama CPI pula mengeluarkan laporan TI 2021, yang bakal menandakan trend penurunan untuk Malaysia dalam perang melawan rasuah.

Wabak Covid-19 telah menyerlahkan kelemahan Malaysia berbanding Indonesia dalam perang melawan Covid-19.

Semalam, Indonesia merekodkan 394 kes harian Covid-19 dan 9 korban Covid-19, berbanding 5,599 kes Covid-19 dan 47 korban yang direkodkan di Malaysia, menandakan 111 hari berturut-turut sejak 18 Ogos di mana Indonesia merekodkan kes harian baharu Covid-19 lebih rendah berbanding Malaysia dan 50 hari berturut-turut sejak 5 Oktober merekodkan kes kematian harian baharu lebih rendah berbanding Malaysia.

Semalam adalah hari ketiga sejak 19 November di mana jumlah kematian akibat Covid-19 di Indonesia direkodkan dalam julat satu angka.

Adakah kita telah tewas kepada Indonesia dalam perang melawan Covid-19, malah dalam perang melawan rasuah?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 24 November 2021)

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Some fallacies about the Malacca general election result  of Nov. 20

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There are many fallacies about the outcome of the Malacca general election of November 20, 2021.

Firstly, that it was a landslide victory of UMNO and Barisan Nasional, when it was landslide victory of seats but not of votes – as although the BN won two-thirds majority of the state assembly seats, it won only an infinitesimal increase of 0.55 per cent of the 2018 votes cast to secure 38.39% of the votes in the Malacca general election last Saturday.

Secondly, UMNO leaders expected Perikatan Nasional (PN), in particular Bersatu, to be wiped out in the Malacca general election. Instead, PN secured 24.31% of the votes in the Malacca general election and proved that it is a political force to be reckoned with.

Thirdly, that the Malacca general election results signified the revival of MCA – when in actual fact, MCA joined the Gerakan for their candidates in losing their deposits in the Bandar Hilir and Kota Laksamana seats. Even in the two seats of Klebang and Machap Jaya won by MCA, the win was because of UMNO’s votes rather than MCA’s votes!

However, the Gerakan president Dominic Lau has created history of sorts in being appointed Senator after a disastrous electoral outing in Malacca general election, leading to the resignation of the former Gerakan state youth chief who denounced Lau for incompetence and lack of accountability.

Fourthly, based on the results, Najib Razak and UMNO leaders envisage a landslide victory for Barisan Nasional in the 15th General Election, and the Malacca general election a stepping stone for Najib to return as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia, causing them to want the 15th General Election to be held early.

This is the reason why Najib is trying very hard to mock the whole idea, desperately trying to keep the question from being pondered by more and more Malaysians whether they want a kleptocrat to return as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

In 2004, Transparency International released the names of the ten most corrupt politicians in the past two decades – led by Suharto of Indonesia, Marcos of Philippines, Mobutu of Zaire, Sani Abacha of Nigeria and Milosevic of Serbia.

If in 2024, Transparency International released a new list of the names of the ten leading Kleptocrats in the past two decades, will Najib’s name be on the list?

It is debatable whether the 15th General Election could replicate the results of the Malacca general election, one of which was the absence of Covid-19 pandemic as an election issue in the Malacca general election.

Many Malaccans mistakenly regard this as a national issue and not a Malacca general election issue.

Yesterday, Malaysia recorded 5,755 daily new Covid-19 cases and 37 Covid-19 deaths, bringing the cumulative totals to 2,602,855 Covid-19 cases and 30,147 (including 6,096 Brought-in-Dead) Covid-19 deaths.

Malaysia’s global ranking in the cumulative number of confirmed cases rose from 89th position on November 18, 2020 to 20th position on September 27, 2021 and it is quite an achievement that in the last two months, we have not overtaken more countries. However, it is a failure of our Covid-19 pandemic strategy that other nations have not overtaken Malaysia’s global ranking.

Malaysia’s deaths per million population is the highest in ASEAN, and the third highest in Asia.

Yesterday, Dr. Milton Lum, past president of the Federation of Private Medical Associations and Malaysian Medical Association, wrote a two-part article on “Fatal Errors in Covid Management” in CodeBlue, referring to “not just a single error, but a series of errors, some of which occurred concurrently that contributed significantly to the cases and deaths”.

He concluded his article with the question:”Who was accountable in Malaysia? Will the unpalatable question of the high number of Covid-19 deaths per capita be addressed?

“How many of the deaths were preventable? What about those who were brought-in-dead? Will there be an independent investigation into Covid-19 management in Malaysia?”

These questions should be answered in the Malacca general election, but they were not. Will the answers be given during the First Hundred Days of Khairy Jamaluddin as the Health Minister on December 7, 2021?

The atrocious handling of the Covid-19 pandemic by the PN/BN governments were not addressed in Malacca general election on Nov. 20, but they will be the focal issues in the 15th General Election!

(Media Statement by DAP MP to Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 25th November 2021)

Beberapa falasi berkaitan keputusan pilihan raya negeri Melaka pada 20 November

Terdapat begitu banyak falasi berkaitan keputusan pilihan raya negeri Melaka 20 November 2021.

Pertamanya, ada yang mengatakan UMNO dan Barisan Nasional menang besar, tetapi mereka hanya memperolehi kerusi majoriti tetapi kemenangan itu tidak tercermin pada jumlah undi — meskipun BN menang dua pertiga majoriti daripada kerusi DUN yang dipertandingkan, jumlah undi yang diterima mereka hanya meningkat sebanyak 0.55 peratus berbanding jumlah undi yang diperolehi mereka pada Pilihan Raya Umum 2018 iaitu sebanyak 38.39 peratus.

Kedua, pemimpin UMNO menjangkakan Perikatan Nasional (PN), terutamanya Bersatu, akan kalah teruk dalam pilihan raya negeri Melaka. Realitinya, PN menerima 24.31 peratus undi dalam pilihan raya tersebut, sekaligus membuktikan kekuatannya yang tersendiri.

Ketiga, pilihan raya negeri Melaka menandakan kebangkitan semula MCA — sedangkan, calon MCA dan Gerakan hilang wang pertaruhan di kerusi Bandar Hilir dan Kota Laksamana. Meskipun MCA menang di kerusi Klebang dan Machap, kemenangan tersebut didorong oleh sokongan penyokong UMNO dan bukannya penyokong akar umbi MCA.

Bagaimanapun, Presiden Gerakan, Dominic Lau telah mencipta sejarah selepas dilantik sebagai Senator meskipun kalah teruk dalam pilihan raya negeri Melaka, yang mana disusuli dengan peletakan jawatan ketua pemuda negeri Gerakan yang menyelar Lau sebagai tidak cekap dan tiada akautabiliti.

Keempat, berdasarkan keputusan berkenaan, Najib Razak dan pemimpin UMNO meramalkan kemenangan besar Barisan Nasional dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, dan pilihan raya negeri Melaka menjadi semacam batu loncatan buat Najib untuk kembali menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-10 Malaysia, membuatkan mereka yakin untuk melaksanakan PRU-15 lebih awal.

Ini sebabnya Najib bermati-matian menafikan perkara itu, malah cuba menutup persoalan berkenaan daripada bermain di fikiran rakyat — sama ada rakyat mahu kleptokrat kembali sebagai Perdana Menteri ke-10 Malaysia.

Pada 2004, Transparency International (TI) mengeluarkan senarai 10 nama kleptokrat baharu yang muncul sepanjang dua dekad lalu — didahului dengan Suharto dari Indonesia, Marcos dari Filipina, Mobutu dari Zaire, Sani Abacha dari Nigeria dan Milosevic dari Serbia.

Jika pada 2024, TI mengeluarkan satu senarai nama baharu 10 kleptokrat utama sepanjang dua dekad lalu, adakah nama Najib akan berada dalam senarai tersebut?

Masih belum pasti sama ada keputusan PRU15 akan sama dengan keputusan pilihan raya negeri Melaka, lebih-lebih lagi isu wabak Covid-19 tidak menjadi topik tumpuan dalam pilihan raya negeri Melaka.

Ramai rakyat Melaka yang telah tersalah anggap dengan merasakan bahawa perkara ini adalah isu nasional dan tidak seharusnya dijadikan isu dalam pilihan raya negeri Melaka.

Semalam, Malaysia merekodkan 5,755 kes harian baharu Covid-19 dengan 37 korban, menjadikan jumlah terkumpul kes Covid-19 sebanyak 2,602,855 dan korban sebanyak 30,147 (termasuk 6,096 kes BID).

Kedudukan global Malaysia dalam kategori jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 tertinggi meningkat dari kedudukan ke-89 pada 18 November 2020 kepada kedudukan ke-20 pada 27 September 2021, dan boleh dikatakan sebagai satu pencapaian apabila kita tidak memintas negara-negara lain sepanjang dua bulan yang lalu.

Bagaimanapun, strategi Covid-19 kita masih dilihat gagal kerana negara-negara lain tidak memintas kedudukan global Malaysia.

Kematian per sejuta penduduk di Malaysia adalah tertinggi di rantau ASEAN, dan ketiga tertinggi di Asia.

Semalam, Dr. Milton Lun, bekas presiden Bekas presiden Persatuan Perubatan Malaysia, menulis dalam dua siri artikel berhubung “Kesalahan besar dalam pengurusan Covid” dalam CodeBlue, merujuk kepada “bukan hanya saja satu kesalahan, tetapi kesalahan yang berulang-ulang, yang mana menyebabkan peningkatan kes dan kematian.”

Beliau merumuskan artikel beliau dengan satu persoalan “Siapa yang bertanggungjawab? Adakah persoalan tentang jumlah kematian akibat Covid-19 per kapita yang tinggi akan dijawab?

“Berapa banyak kematian yang boleh dielakkan? Bagaimanapun pula dengan kes BID? Adakah akan ada siasatan bebas berhubung pengurusan Covid-19 di Malaysia?”

Persoalan-persoalan ini sepatutnya dijawab dalam pilihan raya negeri Melaka, namun ia tidak dijawab. Adakah persoalan itu akan terjawab pada 100 hari Khairy Jamaluddin menjadi Menteri Kesihatan pada 7 Disember 2021?

Pengurusan wabak Covid-19 yang lemah oleh kerajaan PN/BN tidak dijawab dalam pilihan raya negeri Melaka pada 20 November, tetapi ia akan menjadi isu tumpuan dalam PRU15!

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis 25 November 2021)

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Three  bad news for  Malaysia in one day  – when will the fall of Malaysia end?

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Three bad news for Malaysia in one day – when will the fall of Malaysia end?

Firstly, there was the report that Malaysia’s mobile internet connection experience is at the bottom at the global and regional level, according to several global research reports.

Among 100 countries, Malaysia ranked lower than Asean neighbours Vietnam, Thailand, and even poverty-stricken Laos when it came to “Best Mobile Experience” related to 4G LTE wireless broadband speeds, based on global independent data company Tutela’s report recently.

The Tutela report titled “Global Mobile Experience: Country-level Comparison”, ranked Malaysia at 81, three notches below Indonesia’s 78.

Laos is number 75 on the ranking, below Thailand’s 74 and Vietnam’s 50. Meanwhile, Singapore is among the best 20 in the world at the 17th spot.

How low has Malaysia fallen.

Twenty-six years ago in 1995, Malaysia proclaimed the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) as “a gift to the world” and the centrepiece of the country’s strategic initiative to leapfrog the nation into the IT era to become one of the world IT powers.

Since then, MSC and Malaysia have faded away from the world radar screen as an international IT hotspot – with Malaysia’s unchecked plunge in IT international competitiveness in the past two-and-a-half decades.

This was confirmed by the 2009 Oxford/Cisco Global Broadband Quality Score on global state of broadband quality which put Malaysia 53rd out of 66 countries in terms of the quality and reach of its networks – understandably behind countries like Korea, Japan, Sweden, Denmark, United States but also trailing countries Malaysia should be leading like Turkey, Chile, China, Qatar, Brazil, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Costa Rica, Bahrain, Thailand, Tunisia, Mexico, Philippines and UAE.

According to network quality reports between May-July this year by mobile analytics company OpenSignal and finance house JP Morgan, Digi had the highest download speed in Malaysia at 15.0 Mbps, followed by Maxis (13.4), U Mobile (11.5), Unifi (11.0), and Celcom (8.2).

In East Asia, South Korea enjoys an average download speed of 61.3 Mbps, followed by Japan at 40.4 Mbps, and Taiwan at 27.4 Mbps.

The second bad news is the inability of Malaysia to end the 14-month third Covid-19 wave in Malaysia since the Sabah general election in September last year.

Yesterday Indonesia recorded 451 daily new Covid-19 cases and 13 daily Covid-19 deaths, as compared to 5,755 daily new Covid-19 cases and 37 daily Covid-19 deaths for Malaysia, marking the 112nd consecutive day since August 18 when Indonesia recorded less daily new Covid-19 cases and the 51st consecutive day since Oct. 5 less daily Covid-19 deaths than Malaysia.

The cumulative totals for Malaysia yesterday were 2,602,855 Covid-19 cases and 30,147 (including 6,096 Brought-in-Dead) Covid-19 deaths.

The third bad news for Malaysia is that the household appliance manufacturer Dyson has dumped Malaysian supplier ATA IMS Bhd, after allegations of forced labour and a subsequent audit.

The shares of ATA, which is already in the spotlight in the US, plummeted 30%. While ATA did not comment on Dyson’s move, it has previously stated that Dyson accounted for 80% of its business.

According to Dyson, it was tipped off about forced labour by a whistle-blower, prompting it to launch an investigation.

How long can Malaysia take these body-blows and remain internationally competitive?

We tried to call on the voters of Malacca to use the recently-concluded Malacca general election to launch a “Centennial Save Malaysia Campaign” for Malaysia to stop the regression of the past half-a-century and to become a world-class great nation by before 2057.

Many felt a sense of disappointment, hopelessness and even desolation that the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government had not introduced many institutional and structural reforms and changes in Malaysia, ignoring the fact that the PH government had a five-year mandate.

It was robbed of the five-year mandate by the Sheraton Move conspiracy which ushered in two backdoor, illegitimate and undemocratic governments under two Prime Ministers, Muhyiddin Yassin and Ismail Sabri.

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

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

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

I had called on the voters of Malacca to use the Malacca general election on November 20, 2021 to launch a “Centennial Save Malaysia Campaign“ for Malaysia to stop the regression of the past half-a-century and to become a world-class great nation by 2057.

But this message to the Malacca voters was a failure.

Is it too late to save Malaysia by 2057 for it to become a world-class great nation?

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 25th November 2021)

Tiga berita buruk untuk Malaysia dalam masa satu hari — bilakah kejatuhan Malaysia akan berakhir?

Tiga berita buruk untuk Malaysia dalam masa satu hari — bilakah kejatuhan Malaysia ini akan berakhir?

Pertama, terdapat laporan yang mengatakan pengalaman sambungan internet mudah alih Malaysia berada di tahap paling bawah di peringkat global dan serantau, menurut beberapa laporan penyelidikan global.

Antara 100 negara, Malaysia berada di kedudukan lebih rendah berbanding negara jiran Asean, Vietnam, Thailand, malah Laos yang dilanda kemiskinan dari segi “Pengalaman Mudah Alih Terbaik” berkaitan dengan kelajuan jalur lebar tanpa wayar 4G LTE, berdasarkan laporan syarikat data bebas global Tutela baru-baru ini.

Laporan Tutela bertajuk “Pengalaman Mudah Alih Global: Perbandingan Peringkat Negara”, meletakkan Malaysia pada kedudukan ke-81, tiga tangga di bawah Indonesia (78).

Laos berada di kedudukan ke-75 dalam ranking, di bawah Thailand (74) dan Vietnam (50). Sementara itu, Singapura adalah antara 20 negara terbaik di dunia di tempat ke-17.

Begitu teruk kejatuhan Malaysia.

Dua puluh enam tahun yang lalu pada 1995, Malaysia mengisytiharkan Koridor Raya Multimedia (MSC) sebagai “hadiah kepada dunia” dan teras inisiatif strategik negara untuk melonjakkan negara ke era IT untuk menjadi salah satu kuasa IT dunia.

Sejak itu, MSC dan Malaysia telah lenyap daripada radar dunia sebagai hotspot IT antarabangsa – dengan kejatuhan Malaysia yang tidak terkawal dalam daya saing IT antarabangsa dalam tempoh dua setengah dekad yang lalu.

Ini disahkan oleh Skor Kualiti Jalur Lebar Global Oxford/Cisco 2009 mengenai kualiti jalur lebar global yang meletakkan Malaysia di tempat ke-53 daripada 66 negara dari segi kualiti dan jangkauan rangkaiannya – boleh difahami jika kita ketinggalan di belakang negara seperti Korea, Jepun, Sweden, Denmark, Amerika Syarikat tetapi kita juga nampaknya ketinggalan di belakang negara-negara seperti Turki, Chile, China, Qatar, Brazil, Argentina, Arab Saudi, Cyprus, Costa Rica, Bahrain, Thailand, Tunisia, Mexico, Filipina dan UAE.

Menurut laporan kualiti rangkaian antara Mei-Julai tahun ini oleh syarikat analitik mudah alih OpenSignal dan firma kewangan JP Morgan, Digi mempunyai kelajuan muat turun tertinggi di Malaysia pada 15.0 Mbps, diikuti oleh Maxis (13.4), U Mobile (11.5), Unifi (11.0), dan Celcom (8.2).

Di Asia Timur, Korea Selatan menikmati purata kelajuan muat turun 61.3 Mbps, diikuti Jepun pada 40.4 Mbps, dan Taiwan pada 27.4 Mbps.

Berita buruk kedua ialah ketidakupayaan Malaysia menamatkan gelombang ketiga Covid-19 selama 14 bulan di Malaysia sejak pilihan raya umum Sabah pada September tahun lalu.

Semalam Indonesia mencatatkan 451 kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan 13 kes kematian harian Covid-19, berbanding 5,755 kes harian baharu Covid-19 harian dan 37 kes kematian harian Covid-19 bagi Malaysia, menandakan hari ke-112 berturut-turut sejak 18 Ogos yang memperlihatkan Indonesia mencatatkan lebih rendah kes Covid-19 baharu setiap hari dan hari ke-51 berturut-turut sejak 5 Okt kurang kematian harian Covid-19 berbanding Malaysia.

Jumlah terkumpul kes Covid-19 Malaysia semalam ialah 2,602,855 kes dan 30,147 (termasuk 6,096 BID) kematian akibat Covid-19.

Berita buruk ketiga bagi Malaysia ialah pengeluar perkakas rumah Dyson telah menamatkan hubungan dengan pembekal Malaysia ATA IMS Bhd, selepas dakwaan buruh paksa dan audit.

Saham ATA, yang sudah menjadi tumpuan di AS, menjunam 30%. Walaupun ATA tidak mengulas mengenai langkah Dyson, ia sebelum ini telah menyatakan bahawa Dyson menyumbang 80% daripada perniagaannya.

Menurut Dyson, ia dimaklumkan mengenai buruh paksa oleh pemberi maklumat, mendorongnya untuk melancarkan siasatan.

Berapa lama Malaysia boleh bertahan dengan tamparan ini dan kekal berdaya saing di peringkat antarabangsa?

Kami cuba menyeru pengundi Melaka untuk menggunakan pilihan raya umum Melaka yang baru berakhir untuk melancarkan “Kempen Selamatkan Malaysia Seratus Tahun” bagi Malaysia untuk menghentikan kemunduran setengah abad yang lalu dan menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia sebelum 2057.

Ramai yang berasa kecewa, putus asa malah berang kerana kerajaan Pakatan Harapan selama 22 bulan tidak memperkenalkan banyak reformasi dan perubahan institusi dan struktur di Malaysia, tanpa menghiraukan hakikat bahawa kerajaan PH mempunyai mandat lima tahun.

Mandat lima tahun itu pula telah dirampas oleh konspirasi Langkah Sheraton yang membawa kepada dua kerajaan pintu belakang, tidak sah dan tidak demokratik di bawah dua Perdana Menteri, Muhyiddin Yassin dan Ismail Sabri.

Satu fakta tidak dapat dinafikan. Malaysia tidak memenuhi janjinya untuk menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia kerana Malaysia telah diatasi oleh satu demi satu negara dalam tempoh setengah abad yang lalu – Taiwan, Korea Selatan, Singapura dan Vietnam.

Jika Malaysia tidak bangkit dan berusaha untuk mencapai pencapaian yang lebih besar, dalam satu atau dua dekad, anak muda Malaysia akan pergi ke Indonesia untuk mencari pekerjaan dan bukannya sebaliknya.

Malaysia tidak boleh menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia dalam masa satu atau dua tahun, malah dalam satu atau dua dekad. Ia akan menjadi satu cabaran besar bagi Malaysia untuk menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia dalam masa 36 tahun pada tahun 2057.

Saya telah menyeru pengundi Melaka untuk menggunakan pilihan raya umum Melaka pada 20 November 2021 untuk melancarkan “Kempen Selamatkan Malaysia Seratus Tahun” untuk Malaysia menghentikan kemunduran setengah abad yang lalu dan menjadi hebat bertaraf dunia menjelang 2057.

Tetapi mesej kepada pengundi Melaka ini gagal.

Adakah sudah terlambat untuk menyelamatkan Malaysia menjelang 2057 untuk menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia?

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis, 25 November 2021)

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Najib Razak has  undoubtedly the largest election  war chest in the country  and has bought over many operatives to serve his cause to return as 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia in the 15GE

(Versi BM)

What a contrast – one brother asking for a reset of national policies and institutions and another brother dreaming about returning as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Undoubtedly, Najib Razak has the largest election war chest in the country and has bought over many operatives to serve his cause to return as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia in the 15th General Election.

In the initiative started by Nazir Razak and 54 others for a reset of national policies and institutions to realize the original aspirations of becoming a nation of Malaysians, there is recognition that there had been “negative side effects” of the nation-building policies in the past half-a-century which has led to “heightened corruption, the hardening of identity politics and concentration of power” which “feed on each other and are at the heart of Malaysia’s systemic dysfunction today”.

The signatories for a “Better Malaysia Assembly” said Malaysia suffered more from Covid-19 pandemic in both healthcare and economic terms than their counterparts in most nations – endemic corruption, political instability, slow economic growth, high talent outflow and persistent inter-communal tensions.

Malaysia must reset its nation-building policies if we are to arrest the process where one country after another is overtaking us, whether in international competitiveness or in establishing good governance in the country especially in the war against corruption.

We have lost out to Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam – and if we do pull ourselves up by the bootstraps, we will be overtaken by Indonesia.

Recently, a political analyst wrote about “The Dark Forces Changing Malaysian Society”, and one of these “dark forces” identified is “Corruption”, where 1MDB scandal is described as “only the tip of the iceberg”.

The return of Najib as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia in the 15th general election will be against all ideas of a reset of national policies and institutions – in fact kill all possibility of the country becoming a world-class great nation by before Malaysia’s Centennial in 2057.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Friday, 26th November 2021)

Najib Razak sudah pasti mempunyai dana pilihan raya terbesar di negara ini dan telah mengupah banyak pihak dengan kepakaran tertentu untuk membantu beliau kembali sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia ke-10 pada PRU-15

Sungguh berbeza – adik meminta penetapan semula dasar dan institusi negara dan abangnya pula bermimpi untuk kembali sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia ke-10.

Tidak dinafikan, Najib Razak sudah pasti mempunyai dana pilihan raya terbesar di negara ini dan telah mengupah ramai orang dengan kepakaran tertentu untuk membantu beliau kembali sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia ke-10 pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15.

Dalam inisiatif yang dimulakan oleh Nazir Razak dan 54 yang lain untuk menetapkan semula dasar dan institusi negara bagi merealisasikan aspirasi asal menjadi sebuah negara milik semua rakyat Malaysia, terdapat pengesahan terhadap “kesan sampingan negatif” daripada dasar pembinaan negara dalam setengah abad yang lalu yang telah membawa kepada “rasuah yang semakin meningkat, pengerasan politik identiti dan penumpuan kuasa” yang “memakan antara satu sama lain dan menjadi nadi kepada ketimpangan sistemik Malaysia hari ini”.

Penandatangan “Perhimpunan Malaysia Yang Lebih Baik” berkata Malaysia lebih menderita akibat pandemik Covid-19 dalam kedua-dua aspek penjagaan kesihatan dan ekonomi berbanding rakan sejawatan mereka di kebanyakan negara – rasuah endemik, ketidakstabilan politik, pertumbuhan ekonomi yang perlahan, aliran keluar bakat yang tinggi dan ketegangan antara kaum yang berterusan.

Malaysia mesti menetapkan semula dasar pembinaan negara jika kita mahu menghentikan proses di mana satu demi satu negara mengatasi kita, sama ada dalam daya saing antarabangsa atau dalam mewujudkan tadbir urus yang baik di negara ini terutamanya dalam perang menentang rasuah.

Kita telah tewas kepada Taiwan, Korea Selatan, Singapura dan Vietnam – dan jika kita tidak bangkit, kita akan dipintas oleh Indonesia.

Baru-baru ini, seorang penganalisis politik menulis mengenai “The Dark Forces Changing Malaysian Society”, dan salah satu daripada “dark forces” yang dikenal pasti ialah “Corruption (rasuah)”, di mana skandal 1MDB digambarkan sebagai “bahagian kecil daripada masalah yang lebih besar” (a tip of the iceberg) .

Kembalinya Najib sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia ke-10 dalam pilihan raya umum ke-15 akan menimbulkan konflik terhadap semua idea penetapan semula dasar dan institusi negara – malah memadam semua kemungkinan negara kita menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia menjelang Seratus Tahun Malaysia pada tahun 2057.

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Jumaat, 26 November 2021)

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Will “Keluarga Malaysia” save Malaysia from becoming a failed state?

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The day after tomorrow on Sunday will be Ismail Sabri’s 100th Day as the 9th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

He has coined “Keluarga Malaysia” as his signature brand for his premiership of Malaysia.

Will “Keluarga Malaysia” save Malaysia from being a failed state, as Malaysia had been slipping from the international table of competitiveness and successful nations?

Malaysia did badly as a nation according to the Covid-19 pandemic index.

When Ismail Sabri was sworn in as the ninth Prime Minister on August 21, Malaysia had 22,262 daily new Covid-19 cases and 223 daily Covid deaths, and the cumulative totals were 1,535,286 Covid-19 cases and 13,936 Covid-19 deaths.

On the 100th day of Ismail Sabri as the ninth Prime Minister on August 28, the cumulative totals of the Covid-19 pandemic of Malaysia are likely to be over 2.62 million cases and 30,300 deaths – an increase of over one million Covid-19 cases and 16,359 Covid-19 deaths.

We have slowed down exponential increases of Covid-19 cases (at one time reaching the daily peak of 24,599 on 26th August) and Covid-19 deaths (at one time reaching the daily peak 463 deaths on Sept. 14), but still too slow, as we recorded 6,144 daily new Covid-19 cases and 48 daily Covid-19 deaths yesterday.

In contrast, on August 21, Indonesia had 16,744 daily new cases and 1,361 daily deaths, Philippines 16,234 daily new cases and 397 daily deaths and India 31,043 daily new Covid-19 cases and 401 daily Covid-19 deaths.

Yesterday, Indoneseia recorded 372 daily new cases and 16 daily deaths; Philippines recorded 975 daily new cases and 193 daily deaths; and India recorded 2,044 daily new cases.

We have not only lost out to Indonesia which have fewer daily new Covid-19 cases for the entire period of Ismail Sabri’s 100 Days as ninth Prime Minister of Malaysia, Indonesia has six weeks of daily new cases in three-digit figures since Oct. 15 while we are still struggling in the 4,000-6,000 cases zone.

We have also lost out to Indonesia for over seven weeks since 5th October in having more daily Covid-19 deaths than Indonesia.l

We have also lost out to Philippines, which has entered into its second day three-digit daily new cases, and most seriously, we are losing out to India in daily new Covid-19 cases.

Can Ismail Sabri on Sunday explain how his “Keluarga Malaysia” will save Malaysia from becoming a failed state”?

I fully support the proposal by Nazir Razak and a group of 54 other prominent individuals who have urged the Yang di Pertuan Agong and the Conference of Rulers to endorse the establishment of a non-partisan platform, A “Better Malaysia Assembly”, to propose reforms and reset of national institutions and systems.

As the letter to the Yang di Pertuan Agong and the Conference of Rulers have said, successive prime ministers have come into power promising substantial reforms, but these promises often give way to racial and religious overtones and little change is ultimately achieved.

The assembly will deliberate on issues of nationhood and institutional reforms, including matters such as the electoral system, political funding, federal-state relations, role of institutions, affirmative action and education.

It would identify specific policies and legislative changes that are required, which is estimated would take 18 to 24 months of deliberation behind closed doors to reach a consensus.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Friday, 26th November 2021)

Adakah “Keluarga Malaysia” akan menyelamatkan kita daripada menjadi negara gagal?

Lusa, hari Ahad, akan menjadi hari ke-100 Ismail Sabri sebagai Perdana Menteri ke-9 Malaysia.

Beliau telah mencipta “Keluarga Malaysia” sebagai jenama beliau sebagai seorang perdana menteri.

Adakah “Keluarga Malaysia” ini akan menyelamatkan negara kita daripada menjadi sebuah negara gagal, memandangkan Malaysia sering kali tercicir daripada senarai negara-negara berdaya saing dan berjaya?

Sebagai sebuah negara, kita menunjukkan prestasi yang buruk dalam menguruskan wabak Covid-19.

Semasa Ismail Sabri mengangkat sumpah sebagai Perdana Menteri ke-9 pada 21 Ogos, Malaysia mencatatkan 22,262 kes baharu harian dan 223 kematian akibat Covid-19 dengan sejumlah 1,535,286 kes terkumpul dan 13,936 kematian terkumpul.

Pada hari ke-100 beliau menjadi Perdana Menteri jumlah kes terkumpul ini akan berada pada paras lebih dari 2.62 juta kes dan 30,300 kematian — peningkatan lebih sejuta kes dan lebih 16,359 kematian.

Kita telah memperlahankan peningkatan mendadak jumlah kes ini (yang mencapai kemuncak 24,599 kes pada 26 Ogos) dan jumlah kematian (yang mencapai kemuncak 463 kematian pada 14 September), tetapi penurunan ini masih terlalu perlahan memandangkan kita masih mencatatkan 6,144 kes baharu dan 48 kematian semalam.

Sebagai perbandingan, pada 21 Ogos, Indonesia mencatatkan 16,744 kes baharu dan 1,361 kematian, Filipina mencatatkan 16,234 kes baharu dan 397 kematian, dan India mencatatkan 31,043 kes dengan 401 kematian.

Semalam, Indonesia mencatatkan 372 kes baharu dengan 16 kematian; Filipina mencatatkan 975 kes baharu dengan 193 kematian; dan India mencatatkan 2,044 kes baharu.

Kita bukan sahaja telah kalah dengan Indonesia yang mencatatkan kadar jangkitan harian yang lebih rendah untuk keseluruhan 100 hari Ismail Sabri menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-9, Indonesia mencatatkan enam minggu dengan jumlah kes harian dalam julat tiga angka sejak 15 Oktober sedangkan kita pula sedang bergelut dalam julat 4,000-6,000 kes.

Kita juga telah kalah dengan Indonesia untuk lebih daripada tujuh minggu sejak 5 Oktober dengan mencatatkan lebih banyak kematian akibat Covid-19!

Kita juga telah kalah dengan Filipina yang telah memasuki hari keduanya dengan angka kes dalam julat tiga angka, dan apa yang lebih serious adalah apabila kita sedang kalah dengan India dengan lebih banyak jumlah kes harian.

Adakah Ismail Sabri boleh menjelaskan pada hari Ahad ini, bagaimana “Keluarga Malaysia” beliau ini dapat menyelamatkan negara daripada menjadi sebuah negara gagal?

Saya menyokong penuh cadangan daripada Nazir Razak dan sekumpulan 54 orang individu tersohor yang menyeru Yang di Pertuan Agong dan Majlis Raja-raja untuk menyokong cadangan penubuhan suatu platform bukan partisan, “Better Malaysia Assembly”, untuk mencadangkan reformasi dan menetapkan semula institusi dan sistem negara.

Seperti yang dikatakan dalam surat kepada Yang di Pertuan Agong dan Majlis Raja-raja, ramai perdana menteri telah menduduki tampuk kekuasaan dengan menjanjikan reformasi, tetapi janji-janji ini sering diketepikan dengan isu-isu perkauman dan keagamaan dan akhirnya tidak banyak yang dicapai.

Perhimpunan ini akan mempertimbangkan perkara-perkara seperti kenegaraan dan reformasi institusi, termasuklah mengenai perkara seperti sistem pilihan raya, pendanaan politik, hubungan kerajaan persekutuan-negeri, peranan institusi, tindakan afirmatif dan pendidikan.

Ia boleh mengenal pasti dasar-dasar dan perubahan khusus yang diperlukan, yang dijangkakan akan mengambil masa 18 ke 24 bulan untuk pertimbangan di sebalik pintu tertutup untuk mencapai suatu konsensus.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Jumaat, 26 November 2021)

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There should be a ten-year  plan to undo the deviations and injustices of the NEP and the curse of corruption  which are the major causes for Malaysia losing out to other countries in the past half-a-century

The 23-month Covid-19 Pandemic should be a wake-up call to Malaysians that in the last half-a-century, Malaysia had been failing to live up to our potential whether in talents or resources, and one nation after another is  overtaking Malaysia whether in terms of international competitiveness, good governance, the fight against corruption or providing an effective and successful government.

We must pull ourselves up  by our  bootstraps and stop regressing and work to fulfil our promise to be a world-class great nation.

This is not going to be achieved in a year or two, not even in a decade or two, but let all Malaysians have  common vision to achieve the objective of a world-class great nation by before Malaysia’s Centennial in 2057 – in 36 years’ time.

The proposal  by Nazir Razak and 57 other prominent Malaysians, including former Deputy Prime Minister Musa Hitam,  former Johore Mentri Besar Ghani Othman, outstanding personalities like  Ambiga Sreeenevasan, Andrew Sheng  and Sheriff Kassim,  for a  national re-set of national policies and institutions cannot have come at a more appropriate time and their proposal for a Better Malaysia must be given serious consideration by all Malaysians.

They proposed the formation of a deliberative platform under the auspices of the Conference of Rulers “to deliberate and recommend systemic reforms towards a better Malaysia: one that is politically more democratic and stable; economically more dynamic and conditioned to face pressing challenges such the 4th Industrial Revolution and climate change; and socially more just and aligned with our original aspirations of becoming a nation of Malaysians”.

As admitted  by them, the reforms of the nation in the early 70s, including the introduction of the New Economic Policy, were to cater to the needs of the nation at that time.

They said:

“But these reforms were not designed to last indefinitely, and in the case of the New Economic Policy (NEP), a 20-year term limit was set. This national reset took place over 50 years ago, and even though so much has changed for Malaysia and Malaysians, the system remains substantially in place.

“In its early years, the new system was largely successful, bringing much needed political stability, accelerating economic growth, reducing poverty and rebalancing wealth between communities.

“But the system also had negative side effects, namely heightened corruption, the hardening of identity politics and concentration of power, which grew in prominence as the system was prolonged. These negative side effects feed on each other and are at the heart of Malaysia’s systemic dysfunctions today.

“Furthermore, the system grew resistant to reforms: the Abdullah Badawi, Najib and second Mahathir administrations all began with promises of substantial reforms, but failed to achieve material change. In many instances, piecemeal reform proposals were quickly given racial or religious overtones by vested interests and effectively resisted.”

The time has come for a major reset of national policies and institutions.

There should be a ten-year  plan to undo the deviations and injustices of the NEP and the curse of corruption  which are the major causes for Malaysia losing out to other countries in the past half-a-century.

Malaysians should be shocked and upset that Malaysia is heading towards a worse report for Malaysia in the next Transparency International 2021 Corruption Perception Index but this is not the case. Instead, we seem to be creating the conditions for the person who turned Malaysia into a kleptocracy to return as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

We must inculcate among  Malaysians the mindset of “Malaysian First”, whether they are Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Ibans or whether they are Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Sikkhists or Taoists.

This is in fact embodied in the five  Rukun Negara principles, which must be given new life as we cannot have Cabinet Ministers who do not subscribe to these  basic nation-building polices in  Malaysia’s plural society.

In fact, an appropriate occasion for the reaffirmation of the Rukun Negara principles is  on Sunday, which is the last day of  Prime Minister Ismail Sabri’s First  100 Days. I hope he would declare that his “Keluarga Malaysia” concept is fully  founded on the five Rukun Negara principles.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a dialogue at Iskandar Puteri DAP service centre on Friday, November 26, 2021 at 8 pm)

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Malaysia is not faced with Chinese vs Malay contest but how to inculcate among Malaysians, whether Malays Chinese, Indians, Kadazans or Ibans a “Malaysian First” mindset, mentality and loyalty

Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Anwar Ibrahim, said in Machap, Johore earlier today where former Education Minister, Mazlee Malik, joined PKR as a member, that Pakatan Harapan’s enemies have painted a picture that if PH came into power, the Chinese community would dominate the Malays.

Anwar said the same propaganda was used by its enemies in the Malacca state elections last Saturday.

He said: “Their campaign revolved around painting the perception that if PH ruled, the Chinese community would dominate the Malays.

“We know that is not true, and we have denied this in the 22 months that we were in government, but we have not been able to convince the people.”

Anwar  said though PH’s performance in the 22 months was well received, racial issues against the coalition had been too ingrained and difficult to shake off.

“Though our policies were good, we still found it a challenge to get rid of this perception among the people,” he noted.

The problem described by Anwar is a very real one, and the most despicable  underhand tactics of those who through  lies, falsehoods and misinformation practise their divisive politics of race and religion.

Although Ismail Sabri has coined the “Keluarga Malaysia” slogan after he became Prime Minister, he was one of the most rabid racialist UMNO politicians before he became Prime Minister.

Let us hear from Ismail Sabri on his first 100 days tomorrow how he is going to reconcile his rabid racialism of the past and the “Keluarga Malaysia” slogan after he became Prime Minister.

The ICERD (International Covenant for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination) issue at the end of 2018 is the best example of the lies, falsehoods and misinformation that were used to arouse racial animosity and public emotions against the PH government.

The DAP leadership knew nothing about the ICERD ratification issue beforehand and we were taken by surprise by the then Prime Minister, Tun Mahathir Mohamad’s speech at the United Nations that Malaysia was going to ratify ICERD.

The ICERD ratification issue gave the Malay-first politicians the opportunity to go on a racist rampage and Ismail Sabri was one of the leading proponents.

We are still living with the consequences of the toxic politics of lies, misinformation, hatred, race and religion, so deftly mobilised during the ICERD ratification fiasco in 2018, whether it be the “Sheraton Move” conspiracy in February 2020 to topple a democratic and legitimate government and replace it with a backdoor and illegitimate government, or the deadly Covid-19 pandemic which had killed over 30,000 people and caused over 2.6 million Covid-19 infections in the past 22 months.

The Foreign Minister  Saifuddin Abdullah at that time is now back as the Foreign Minister.

I call on Saifuddin Abdullah to speak the truth that the ICERD ratification issue at the end of 2008 had nothing to do with the DAP although DAP was accused of being the instigator behind the issue.

Let Malaysians know who was responsible for Mahathir’s speech in UN in 2018 – Mahathir or Saifuddin?

Will Saifuddin Abdullah speak the truth?

Malaysia is not faced with Chinese vs Malay contest but how to build a Malaysian First nation by inculcating in every Malaysian  whether Malays Chinese, Indians, Kadazans or Ibans a “Malaysian First” mindset, mentality and loyalty.

The Government should be main driver of this mission but unfortunately, UMNO, Barisan Nasional and Perikatan Nasional governments have done the opposite – and during the Malacca general election, we heard the confession of Muhyiddin Yassin how he and others in Bersatu and PKR were working against the “Malaysian First” campaign from within the Pakatan Harapan government for 22 months culminating in the Sheraton Move conspiracy.

Malaysia can only succeed as a world-class great nation if all Malaysians are united in having a “Malaysian First” mindset, mentality and loyalty.

If Malaysia ends up as a failed state, all Malaysians, regardless of race or religion, will suffer.

This must be our mission, We must not continue as in the past half a century with one country after another overtaking us – Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam.  The 23-month Covid-19 pandemic has shown that Malaysia is now  lagging  behind Indonesia, having more  daily Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths for months.

Shouldn’t this be a wake-up call that unless we unite with Malaysian First mission to make Malaysia a  world-class great nation, we are condemned to further straggle behind other nations and may end up as a failed state.

On May 9, 2018, Malaysians declared they do want to be a kleptocracy.

We cannot be a world-class great nation in 2021. Can we  become a world-class great nation before Malaysia’s Centennial in 2057?

(Speech by DAP MP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a DAP dialogue in Johore Bahru on Saturday, November 27 2021 at 8 pm)

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Malaysians will know on Dec. 8 whether Najib will be making a serious bid to become the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia

Malaysians will know on Dec. 8 whether Najib will be making a serious bid to become the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

If on that date, the Court of  Appeal quashes his conviction in the RM42 million SRC International corruption case and sentencing of 12 years imprisonment and RM210 million fine, the likelihood is that Najib will put into action his  plan for his return as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia  in the 15th general election and that the 15th General Election is likely to be held in the first half of next year,

UMNO President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has already said that the confidence-supply-reform (SCR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and Pakatan Harapan leaders is not “scripture” that will prevent the 15th general election from being held earlier than July next year as it can be changed.

Umno Youth leader Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki had  said there is no certainty that the MOU will last until next July while Umno deputy president Mohamad Hasan also called on  Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob to consider bringing forward GE15, saying that the sentiments of the people are now firmly with BN.

At the back of the mind of those who are urging early 15th general election are two factors: firstly, that  the “landslide” UMNO victory in the Malacca general election could be duplicated in the 15th General Election; and secondly, the freeing of the UMNO “court cluster” including Najib and  the UMNO President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi  from corruption charges.

Undoubtedly, Najib Razak has the largest election war chest in the country and has bought up many operatives to serve his cause to return as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia in the 15th General Election.

His operatives are already writing and placing articles and reports online and in the mainstream media welcoming Najib’s return as 10th Prime Minister in glowing terms.

But while Najib is getting ready to trigger plans for his return as 10th Prime Minister, his youngest brother, Nazir Razak and other prominent Malaysians have announced plans for a reset of national policies and institutions to realise the original aspiration of becoming a nation of Malaysians.

Unlike Najib, there is recognition that there had been “negative side effects” of the nation-building policies in the past half-a-century which has led to “heightened corruption, the hardening of identity politics and concentration of power” which “feed on each other and are at the heart of Malaysia’s systemic dysfunction today”.

As the initiators of the Better Malaysia movement admitted, the reforms like the New Economic Policy (NEP) were not designed to last indefinitely, like the NEP which has a 20-year term limit.

They said:

“In its early years, the new system was largely successful, bringing much needed political stability, accelerating economic growth, reducing poverty and rebalancing wealth between communities.

“But the system also had negative side effects, namely heightened corruption, the hardening of identity politics and concentration of power, which grew in prominence as the system was prolonged. These negative side effects feed on each other and are at the heart of Malaysia’s systemic dysfunctions today.

“Furthermore, the system grew resistant to reforms: the Abdullah Badawi, Najib and second Mahathir administrations all began with promises of substantial reforms, but failed to achieve material change. In many instances, piecemeal reform proposals were quickly given racial or religious overtones by vested interests and effectively resisted.”

This is why the initiators called for a  major reset of national policies and institutions.

Here is a remarkable contrast of two brothers, both sons of Tun Razak  – one calling for a major reset of national policies and institutions while the other brother, Najib Razak is dreaming of becoming the 10th Prime Minister which will end in Malaysia deeply-mired in kleptocracy.

Is the return of Najib as 10th Prime Minister in keeping with the original aspiration of the founders for the country to become a nation of Malaysians?

The Malaysian electorate had saved Malaysia from a kleptoracy under Najib’s premiership, but can they  fulfil the original aspiration of the founding fathers of the nation to become a nation of Malaysians?

Are they prepared for a long-term struggle lasting two to three decades to make Malaysia a world-class great  nation by before Malaysia Centennial in 2057?

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a DAP dialogue in Kluang on Sunday, November 28 2021)

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There is widespread misunderstanding of the CSR MOU that it meant DAP and PH now support the  racialist, one-sided and divisive 2022 Budget when this is not the case

There is widespread misunderstanding of the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that it meant that DAP and  Pakatan Harapan (PH) now support the racialist, one-sided and divisive 2022 Budget when this is not the case.

DAP and Pakatan Harapan leaders and MPs will continue to oppose the racism, injustices and discrimination of  the 2022 budget, which does not reflect the “Keluarga Malaysia” concept advocated by Ismail Sabri.

I do not know how many Malacca voters had been  misled and misguided by this misconception that there is  now no difference between the government and the opposition, and that a vote for DAP and Pakatan Harapan was as good as a vote for the government parties.

It is the challenge of all DAP and Pakatan Harapan members and supporters to disabuse the people of this misconception.

What the CSR MOU has achieved is some political stability so that Ismail Sabri will not be toppled as the Prime Minister in the way Muhyiddin Yassin was  toppled as the eighth Prime Minister, and whoever  new Prime Minister who  emerges from the political turmoil will be from  among the Perikatan Nasional-Barisan Nasional nexus but not from the Pakatan Harapan as PH is unable to command a parliamentary majority to name a new Prime Minister.

Instead of the political instability and turmoil  of the country searching for a 10th Prime Minister from within the PN-BN framework, the CSR MOU is to ensure a modicum of political stability whereby PH will not vote out the 2022 Budget which meant a vote of no confidence in Ismail Sabri as Prime Minister and his resignation, sending the country on a new spree looking for a new Prime Minister from PN-BN framework, in exchange for the Ismail  Sabri promise to focus on bringing the Covid-19 pandemic under control to save  lives and livelihoods.

When Ismail Sabri  became Prime Minister on August 21, Malaysia had 1,535,286 Covid-19 cases and 13, 936 Covid-19 deaths.

If the crazy increase of Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia had not been ended,  we might see on Sabri Ismail’s 100 days as ninth Prime Minister of Malaysia on Sunday the  cumulative totals of five million Covid-19 cases and close to 100,000 Covid-19 deaths instead of 2.6 million Covid-19 cases and  over 30,000 Covid-19 deaths.

When the country is faced with an existential threat piling  up  millions of Covid-19 cases and  tens of thousands of  Covid-19 fatalities, all Malaysians must put their differences aside to protect the lives, livelihoods and the national fabrics of Malaysian society.

This is why Pakatan Harapan insisted that there must be a RM45 billion allocation to save not only lives but livelihoods as a result of the prolonged  Covid-19 pandemic.

UMNO Youth leader, Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki has said there is no certainty that the CSR MOU between  Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and Pakatan Harapan will last until July next year.

Obviously,  the UMNO leadership  is pressing for the tearing up of the CSR MOU and for early 15th General Election to be held, believing its “landslide” victory and the momentum of the Malacca general election could lead to the restoration of UMNO as the largest political party in  Parliament with the requisite majority to form the next government and top UMNO leaders being freed from corruption charges.

But will  Ismail Sabri agree?

Apart from the dubious UMNO claim of a “landslide”  Malacca General Election victory as UMNO did not even win additional one percent of the votes cast, and the emergence of Bersatu as a political force to be reckoned with, Ismail Sabri does not want to  be the Prime Minister with the shortest tenure, shorter than that of Muhyiddin Yassin.

There is no guarantee that Ismail Sabri will be chosen to be appointed Prime Minister if UMNO wins a majority in the 15GE – in fact, Najib Razak is working very hard to rehabilitate himself and return as the 10th Prime Minister  of Maaysia after the 15 GE.

Ismail Sabri is no reformer, but the only way he could avoid ending up as the Prime Minister with the shortest tenure in Malaysia is to uphold the CSR MOU and  drag out the 15GE until 2023.

Malaysia is in new and uncertain political waters, seeking to find a new political equilibrium from the mould for half a century where one political party, UMNO, could exercise political hegemony. How will it end?

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a DAP  dialogue in Kulai on Saturday, 27th November 2021 at 5 pm)

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I welcome Ismail Sabri’s statement that the “Keluarga Malaysia” concept  is based on Rukun Negara but what is he doing to ensure that Cabinet comprises Ministers who  uphold the Rukun Negara?

(Versi BM)

I welcome Prime Minister Ismail Sabri’s statement that his “Keluarga Malaysia” concept is based on Rukun Negara and that the National Unity Plan 2021-2030 is an effort to restore the original dream of unity expressed in the five principles of Rukun Negara.

But the National Unity Plan got off on a bad start when the Unity Minister, Halimah Mohamed Sadique dared not answer questions about the issue surrounding the new signboards for several publicly-funded Chinese primary schools in Pahang, passing the buck to the Education Ministry and the Pahang State government.

The National Unity Plan cannot be beautiful on paper but with no effect or worth on the ground, as it must be an overarching plan affecting every Ministry and all state governments, with the Unity Minister mandated to correct all deviations and idionsyncracies of any Ministry or any State Government.

The Unity Minister must have the mandate and the authority to intervene where any Ministry or state government contravenes the objectives of the National Unity Plan to ensure that there is national unity in the country.

If the National Unity Plan affects only the National Unity Ministry but has no relevance to the whole country or other Ministries and the state governments, then it is not a National Unity Plan worth the paper it is printed on.

In this connection, I would like the ask Ismail Sabri what is he is going to do to ensure that his Cabinet only comprises Ministers who uphold the Rukun Negara?

Tun Razak, the second Prime Minister under whose premiership the five Rukun Negara nation-building principles were enunciated, would have been shocked if he had been asked if he expected Malaysia to have a Cabinet with Ministers who do not support or uphold the Rukun Negara principles!

Would Ismai Sabri ask everyone of his Cabinet Minister to publicly declare support and commitment to uphold the five Rukun Negara principles, and to dismiss Ministers who are not prepared to make such a public commitment?

I doubt Ismail Sabri would dare to do so, because it would result in him losing the premiership and making him the Malaysian Prime Minister with the shortest tenure on the post, shorter than Muhyiddin Yassin.

If Ismail Sabri’s Cabinet cannot set an example of national unity, what is the use of Ismail Sabri’s national unity plan which he launched yesterday.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 29th November 2021)

Saya alu-alukan kenyataan Ismail Sabri bahawa konsep “Keluarga Malaysia” ini berteraskan kepada Rukun Negara, tetapi apakah yang sedang dilakukan beliau untuk memastikan Kabinet terdiri daripada kalangan Menteri yang berpegang kepada Rukun Negara?

Saya alu-alukan kenyataan Ismail Sabri bahawa konsep “Keluarga Malaysia” ini berteraskan kepada Rukun Negara dan Pelan Perpaduan Negara 2021-2030 adalah satu usaha untuk mengembalikan impian perpaduan yang disematkan dalam kelima-lima prinsip Rukun Negara.

Namun, Pelan Perpaduan Negara ini mempunyai permulaan yang buruk apabila Menteri Perpaduan, Halimah Mohamed Sadique tidak berani menjawab soalan berkenaan isu mengenai papan tanda untuk beberapa sekolah awam jenis kebangsaan Cina di Pahang, sebaliknya mengalihkan isu ini kepada Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kerajaan Negeri Pahang.

Pelan Perpaduan Negara ini tidak boleh hanya kelihatan cantik di atas kertas tetapi tidak mempunyai sebarang kesan atau nilai di lapangan, sebaliknya ia perlu menjadi satu rancangan yang melibatkan semua Kementerian dan semua kerajaan negeri, dengan Menteri Perpaduan diberikan mandat untuk memperbetulkan sebarang kelarian dalam mana-mana Kementerian atau Kerajaan Negeri.

Menteri Perpaduan perlu mempunyai mandat dan kuasa untuk masuk campur apabila mana-mana Kementerian atau kerajaan negeri melakukan perkara yang bertentangan dengan objektif Pelan Perpaduan Negara ini untuk memastikan terdapatnya perpaduan dalam negara kita.

Sekiranya Pelan Perpaduan Negara ini hanya melibatkan Kementerian Perpaduan tetapi tidak relevan kepada keseluruhan negara atau Kementerian atau kerajaan negeri yang lain, ia bukanlah sebuah Pelan Perpaduan Negara yang mempunyai sebarang nilai selain daripada nilai kertas di mana ianya dicetak.

Dalam perkara ini juga, saya ingin bertanya kepada Ismail Sabri mengenai apakah yang dilakukan beliau untuk memastikan Kabinet beliau terdiri hanya daripada kalangan mereka yang menegakkan prinsip Rukun Negara ini?

Tun Razak, Perdana Menteri kedua, di mana di bawah pentadbiran beliaulah Rukun Negara ini dirangka, pastinya akan terkejut sekiranya ditanya sama ada beliau akan menjangkakan yang Malaysia akan mempunyai Kabinet dengan Menteri yang tidak menyokong prinsip-prinsip Rukun Negara!

Adakah Ismail Sabri akan meminta semua Menteri Kabinet beliau untuk menyata sokongan dan komitmen mereka terhadap kelima-lima prinsip Rukun Negara dan untuk memecat mana-mana Menteri yang enggan berbuat demikian?

Saya tidak berasa Ismail Sabri berani berbuat demikian, kerana ia akan menyebabkan beliau kehilangan sokongan dan menjadikannya Perdana Menteri dengan penggal perkhidmatan terpendek dalam sejarah, lebih pendek berbanding dengan Muhyiddin Yassin.

Sekiranya Kabinet Ismail Sabri tidak boleh menjadi contoh perpaduan negara, apakah gunanya Pelan Perpaduan Negara yang dilancarkan beliau semalam.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin, 29 November 2021)

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Some good news at last on the Covid-19 pandemic front on the last day of Ismail Sabri’s first hundred days – lowest daily new Covid-19 cases since May 16 and second  lowest daily Covid-19 deaths in six months

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After 99 days of depressing, gloomy or at best “not bad news”, it is great to have some good news at last on the Covid-19 pandemic front on the last day of Ismail Sabri’s first hundred days as the ninth Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Yesterday, Malaysia recorded 4,239 daily new Covid-19 cases, the lowest in 196 days since May 16, and 29 daily Covid-19 deaths – second lowest in over six months.

I had hoped that at least by the first 100 Days of Ismail Sabri as the ninth Prime Minister of Malaysia, we can at least undo the damage of the proclamation of emergency by the Muhyiddin Yassin Government on January 11, 2021, when we had 2,232 daily new Covid-19 cases and four Covid-19 deaths, with the cumulative totals of 138,224 Covid-19 cases and 555 Covid-19 deaths.

When Ismail Sabri took his oath of office as the ninth Prime Minster of Malaysia on August 21, there was a ten-fold increase in the daily new Covid-19 cases to 22,262 cases from the date of declaration of Emergency and an increase by more than 50 times in number of daily Covid-19 casualties to 223 Covid-19 deaths on that day.

We had not won the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, and if the crazy rate increases of cases and deaths had continued, at the end of Ismail Sabri’s first 100 days yesterday, we might have cumulative totals of five million Covid-19 cases and some 100,000 Covid-19 deaths.

This was one main reason why I supported the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan leaders, for when the country is faced with an existential threat involving millions of Covid-19 cases and tens of thousands of human lives, Malaysians must put their differences aside to protect lives, livelihoods and the national fabrics of Malaysian society.

We have ended the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic but we have not yet won the war against it.

Instead of cumulative totals of five million Covid-19 cases and 100,000 Covid-19 deaths, the cumulative totals at the end of the first 100 days of Ismail Sabri as the ninth Prime Minister was 2,623,816 Covid-19 cases and 30,309 Covid-19 deaths – which means the CSR MOU had prevented some 2.4 million Covid-19 cases and saved the lives of 60,000-70,000 lives.

From a losing position, the CSR MOU has turned the tides of defeat to end the crazy increase of Covid-19 case and Covid-19 deaths but we have not won the war against Covid-19 pandemic by at least returning to the pre-Emergency days before January 11, 2021.

For 99 days, we descended from the peak of daily new cases of 24,599 cases on 26th August and the peak of 592 daily Covid-19 deaths on Sept. 11, 2021 but the process of reduction of daily new cases and daily deaths was too agonisingly slow – as for six weeks, we were struggling in the 4,500 – 6,500 region for daily new cases.

On the last day of Ismail Sabri’s first 100 days as the ninth Prime Minister, Malaysia has broken the jinx of being trapped in the 4,500 – 6,500 region for daily new Covid-19 cases and recorded 4,239 daily new cases.

Hopefully, this will mark Malaysia gaining firmer grip of the Covid-19 pandemic situation in the second 100 days of Ismail Sabri as Prime Minister, where we can not only bring Malaysia to pre-emergency situation but end the longest Covid-19 wave in the world in Malaysia which had lasted 14 months since the Sabah general election last year.

We must look forward to the day where the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases is in double-digit figure while the daily Covid-19 fatalities are in single-digit figure.

Indonesia yesterday recorded 264 daily new cases and one Covid-19 death, while India recorded 6,226 daily new cases and 20 Covid-19 deaths.

Indonesia had been recording daily Covid-19 new cases in triple digit numbers for seven weeks since Oct. 14 and double-digit numbers for daily Covid-19 deaths for eight weeks since Oct. 3.

Now Indonesia is recording Covid-19 deaths in single-digit number.

When will Malaysia be able to do so?

This question becomes more urgent with reports that a new Covid variant, Omicron, is spreading around the world although it is not yet clear whether Omicron is more transmissible than other variants or if it causes more severe disease.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, November 29, 2021)

Akhirnya berita baik mengenai Covid-19 pada hari terakhir 100 hari pertama Ismail Sabri — kadar jangkitan terendah sejak 16 Mei dan juga kadar kematian akibat Covid-19 kedua terendah dalam enam bulan yang lepas

Selepas 99 hari dengan berita yang suram, di mana situasi yang paling baik sekalipun hanyalah apabila kita didatangkan dengan berita yang “tidak buruk”, kita akhirnya menerima berita yang baik pada hari terakhir 100 hari pertama Ismail Sabri sebagai Perdana Menteri kesembilan.

Semalam, Malaysia mencatatkan 4,239 kes baharu Covid-19, kadar terendah dalam 196 hari sejak 16 Mei, dan pada masa yang sama mencatatkan 29 kematian akibat Covid-19 — kadar kematian kedua terendah dalam enam bulan yang lepas.

Saya telah berharap sekurang-kurangnya dalam 100 hari pertama Ismail Sabri menjadi Perdana Menteri kesembilan ini, kita dapat memulihkan semula kerosakan yang telah disebabkan oleh Proklamasi Darurat oleh kerajaan Muhyiddin Yassin pada 11 Januari 2021, di mana kita mencatatkan 2,232 kes baharu dengan empat kematian akibat Covid-19 dan sejumlah 138,224 kes dan 555 kematian terkumpul.

Semasa Ismail Sabri mengangkat sumpah sebagai Perdana Menteri kesembilan pada 21 Ogos 2021, kadar kes Covid-19 dalam negara adalah sepuluh kali ganda berbanding dengan semasa darurat diisytiharkan dengan 22,262 kes baharu, manakala kadar kematian pula telah meningkat 50 kali ganda kepada 223 kematian pada hari tersebut.

Kita belum memenangi perang melawan wabak Covid-19 ini dan sekiranya kadar yang tidak masuk akal tersebut berterusan sehingga ke penghujung 100 hari pertama Ismail Sabri, kita sudah akan mencatatkan lima juta kes dengan lebih kurang 100,000 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Inilah sebab utama saya menyokong memorandum persefahaman (MOU) kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) di antara Ismail Sabri dan pemimpin Pakatan Harapan, kerana apabila negara kita sedang berhadapan dengan ancaman besar yang melibatkan jutaan kes dan ribuan korban nyawa, kita perlu ketepikan perbezaan kita untuk melindungi nyawa, punca pendapatan, dan fabrik masyarakat Malaysia.

Kita telah menghentikan keadaan terburuk Covid-19 tetapi kita belum memenangi perang melawan wabak ini.

Daripada mengumpulkan lima juta kes dan 100,000 kematian akibat Covid-19, kita sebaliknya mencatatkan 2,623,816 kes dan 30,309 kematian akibat Covid-19 menjelang 100 hari pertama Ismail Sabri — perkara ini bermakna MOU CSR ini berjaya mengelakkan 2.4 juta jangkitan Covid-19 dan berjaya menyelamatkan kira-kira 60,000 ke 70,000 nyawa.

Daripada berada dalam kedudukan sedang kalah, MOU CSR ini mengubah arah tuju negara untuk menghentikan peningkatan melampau kes dan kematian akibat Covid-19, tetapi kita masih belum berjaya dalam perang ini selagi mana kita belum mencapai sekurang-kurangnya kadar kes yang dicatatkan pada era pra-darurat pada 11 Januari 2021.m

Untuk 99 hari, kita turun daripada kemuncak 24,599 kes pada 26 Ogos dan kemuncak 592 kematian pada 11 September, tetapi proses ini bergerak dengan terlalu perlahan — memandangkan selepas enam minggu, kita masih berada dalam julat 4,500 ke 6,500 kes setiap hari.

Pada hari terakhir 100 hari pertama Ismail Sabri ini, negara kita akhirnya terkeluar daripada jerat 4,500-6,500 kes ini dengan 4,239 kes baharu.

Harapnya, perkara ini mencatatkan permulaan di mana kita mula berjaya mengawal penularan Covid-19 dengan lebih baik dalam 100 hari kedua Ismail Sabri, di mana kita tidak boleh hanya mengurangkan kes ini kepada kadar pra-darurat, tetapi kita juga perlu menamatkan gelombang penularan terpanjang di dunia yang telah berlarutan selama 14 bulan sejak daripada PRN Sabah pada tahun lepas.

Kita perlu terus berharap kepada suatu hari di mana kadar peningkatan kes baharu ini berada dalam julat dua angka dengan kadar kematian dalam julat satu angka.

Indonesia semalam mencatatkan 264 kes baharu dengan satu kematian akibat Covid-19. Sedangkan India pula mencatatkan 6,226 kes baharu dengan 20 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Indonesia telah mencatatkan kadar kes baharu dalam julat tiga angka sejak untuk tujuh minggu sejak 14 Oktober dan mencatatkan kematian dalam julat dua angka selama lapan minggu sejak 3 Oktober.

Kini Indonesia mencatatkan kadar kematian akibat Covid-19 dalam julat satu angka.

Bilakah kita akan menyaksikan perkara seperti ini?

Persoalan ini menjadi lebih mendesak apabila terdapat laporan mengenai varian baharu Covid-19, Omicron, yang sedang tular di seluruh dunia walaupun masih belum jelas sama ada varian Omicron ini lebih mudah berjangkit berbanding dengan varian-varian lain atau sama ada ia menyebabkan penyakit yang lebih parah.

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin, 29 November 2021)

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The light at the end of the Covid-19 pandemic tunnel is getting brighter but we must remain vigilant in view of the advent of omnicron variant of Covid-19 virus

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The light at the end of the Covid-19 pandemic tunnel is getting brighter but we must remain vigilant in view of the omnicron variant of Covid-19 virus – to adhere to mask wearing, to use good ventilation and to avoid close contact with too many people and to get vaccinated or get booster shots.

Yesterday, we recorded 4,087 daily new Covid-19 cases – the lowest in 197 days – the strongest indication that we can look forward to breaching the 4,000-line to go below 4,000 daily new Covid-19 cases after struggling for six weeks in the 4,500 – 6,500 cases region for daily new cases, and even to return to pre-Emergency days of January 11, 2021 when we had 2,232 daily new Covid-19 cases and four Covid-19 deaths.

But we must go back further to end the longest Covid-19 wave in the world for Malaysia had been having the third Covid-19 wave since the Sabah state general elections in September last year – lasting over 14 months!

Many Malaysians have still a misconception of the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) which Pakatan Harapan signed with Prime Minister Ismail Sabri, as if Pakatan Harapan had ceased to be an Opposition coalition and been corralled into the Ismai Sabri government.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The Covid-19 pandemic was one of the chief reasons for the CSR MOU.

When Ismail Sabri was sworn in as the ninth Prime Minster of Malaysia, we recorded 22,262 daily new Covid-19 cases with 233 daily Covid-19 deaths, with cumulative totals of 1,535,286 Covid-19 cases and 13,936 Covid-19 deaths.

If the exponential increase of Covid-19 cases and deaths had not been checked, we could have reached cumulative totals of five million Covid-19 cases and some 100,000 Covid-19 deaths.

The CSR MOU had probably saved the lives of some 60,000 – 70,000 people as the cumulative totals today are 2,627,903 Covid-19 cases and 30,370 deaths.

But the pace of decreasing the exponential increase of daily new Covid-19 cases and daily Covid-19 deaths have been agonisingly slow and unacceptable, to the extent that we are behind Indonesia and even India.

Indonesia yesterday recorded 176 daily new cases and eleven Covid-19 deaths and had been recording daily Covid-19 new cases in triple digit numbers for seven weeks since Oct. 14 and double-digit numbers for daily Covid-19 deaths for eight weeks since Oct. 3.

Yesterday, Malaysia has even lost out to India in daily new Covid-19 cases, as India recorded 2,765 cases as against Malaysia’s 4,807 cases.

If we had not achieved a modicum of political stability with the CSR MOU, the political game of “Who is the Prime Minister of Malaysia” would have been the main game in town.

DAP and Pakatan Harapan do not support the 2022 Budget but we do not want to made pawns of the “Who is the Prime Minister of Malaysia” game and we do not fancy those who were eyeing the Prime Minister’s position, including Azmin Ali and Hamzah Zainuddin of Bersatu and Zahid Hamidi, Hishammudin Hussein, Ahmad Mazlan and even Najib Razak of UMNO, to become the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Only one thing was certain: It would not be Anwar Ibrahim as Pakatan Harapan could not muster majority support in Parliament to name him as the Prime Minister.

The CSR MOU did not commit DAP and Pakatan Harapan to support the racialist, unjust and one-sided 2022 Budget. It only committed the DAP and PH not to vote down the 2022 Budget, which will mean Ismail Sabri’s resignation as Prime Minister as it tantamount to a vote of no confidence.

Now, whether the CSR MOU could last until July 2022 is in question as a result of the “landslide” victory of UMNO in the Malacca general election – in seats but not in votes.

While UMNO leaders, like UMNO President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Deputy President, Mohamad Hassn, UMNO Youth leader Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki and even Najib Razak are pressing for early 15th general election, political analysts are unanimous in their view that BN victory n Malacca is bad news for Ismail Sabri.

This is because Ismail Sabri must decide on whether to give in to the pressure of the UMNO leaders to tear up the CSR MOU and have early 15th General Election, and become the Prime Minister with the shortest tenure shorter than Muhyiddin Yassin, or be a Prime Minister who kept his word in the CSR MOU not to have general election until July 2022.

Malaysians will know on Dec. 8 whether Najib will be making a serious bid to become the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

If on that date, the Court of Appeal quashes his conviction in the RM42 million SRC International corruption case and sentencing of 12 years imprisonment and RM210 million fine, the likelihood is that Najib will put into action his plan for his return as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia in the 15th general election, shoving Ismail Sabri aside.

Malaysians will know in nine days whether there will be a serious bid for the return of kleptocracy in the country.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 30th November 2021)

Cahaya di penghujung terowong pandemik Covid-19 semakin cerah tetapi kita harus tetap waspada memandangkan telah muncul varian baharu Omicron Covid-19

Cahaya di penghujung terowong pandemik Covid-19 semakin cerah tetapi kita mesti kekal berwaspada memandangkan kemunculan varian virus Covid-19 baharu, Omicron — untuk terus mematuhi arahan pemakaian pelitup muka, menggunakan pengudaraan yang baik dan mengelakkan sentuhan rapat dengan terlalu ramai orang dan untuk mendapatkan vaksin atau mendapatkan suntikan penggalak.

Semalam, kita merekodkan 4,087 kes harian baharu Covid-19 – terendah dalam 197 hari – petunjuk paling kuat yang kita boleh berharap untuk melepasi garisan 4,000 untuk turun di bawah paras 4,000 kes harian baharu Covid-19 selepas bergelut selama enam minggu dengan jumlah kes dalam lingkungan 4,500 – 6,500 untuk kes harian baharu, malah kembali ke hari pra-Darurat pada 11 Januari 2021 apabila kita merekodkan 2,232 kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan empat korban Covid-19.

Tetapi kita mesti kembali lebih jauh untuk menamatkan gelombang Covid-19 terpanjang di dunia kerana Malaysia telah mengalami gelombang Covid-19 ketiga sejak pilihan raya negeri Sabah pada September tahun lepas – berlangsung selama 14 bulan!

Ramai rakyat Malaysia masih mempunyai tanggapan yang salah mengenai memorandum persefahaman (MOU) keyakinan-pembekalan-pembaharuan (CSR) yang ditandatangani Pakatan Harapan dengan Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri, seolah-olah Pakatan Harapan telah tidak lagi menjadi gabungan Pembangkang dan telah dikaitkan dengan kerajaan Ismail Sabri. kerajaan.

Semua ini tidak benar. Pandemik Covid-19 adalah salah satu sebab utama MOU CSR ditandatangani.

Semasa Ismail Sabri mengangkat sumpah sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang kesembilan, kita merekodkan 22,262 kes harian baharu Covid-19 dengan 233 kematian harian Covid-19, dengan jumlah kumulatif 1,535,286 kes Covid-19 dan 13,936 kematian Covid-19.

Sekiranya peningkatan mendadak kes Covid-19 dan kematian tidak diawasi, kita boleh mencapai jumlah kumulatif lima juta kes Covid-19 dan kira-kira 100,000 kematian Covid-19.

MOU CSR mungkin telah menyelamatkan nyawa kira-kira 60,000 – 70,000 orang kerana jumlah kumulatif hari ini ialah 2,627,903 kes Covid-19 dan 30,370 kematian.

Tetapi kadar penurunan lonjakan kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan kematian harian Covid-19 adalah sangat perlahan dan tidak boleh diterima, sehingga kita ketinggalan di belakang Indonesia dan juga India.

Indonesia semalam merekodkan 176 kes harian baharu dan 11 kematian Covid-19 dan telah merekodkan kes harian baharu Covid-19 dalam julat tiga digit selama tujuh minggu sejak 14 Oktober dan julat dua digit untuk kematian harian Covid-19 selama lapan minggu sejak 3 Oktober.

Semalam, Malaysia kalah kepada India dalam kes harian baharu Covid-19 — India merekodkan 2,765 kes berbanding 4,807 kes di Malaysia.

Jika kita tidak mencapai sedikit kestabilan politik dengan MOU CSR, permainan politik “Siapa Perdana Menteri Malaysia” akan menjadi permainan utama.

DAP dan Pakatan Harapan tidak menyokong Belanjawan 2022 tetapi kita tidak mahu menjadikan permainan “Siapa Perdana Menteri Malaysia” dan kami tidak gemar terhadap mereka yang mengintai kedudukan Perdana Menteri, termasuk Azmin Ali dan Hamzah Zainuddin dari Bersatu and Zahid Hamidi, Hishammuddin Hussein, Ahmad Mazlan malah Najib Razak dari UMNO, menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia.

Hanya satu perkara yang pasti: Bukan Anwar Ibrahim kerana Pakatan Harapan tidak dapat memperoleh sokongan majoriti di Parlimen untuk menamakan beliau sebagai Perdana Menteri.

MOU CSR tidak mengikat DAP dan Pakatan Harapan untuk menyokong Belanjawan 2022 yang bersifat perkauman, tidak adil dan berat sebelah. Ia hanya mengikat DAP dan PH untuk tidak menolak Belanjawan 2022, yang bermakna Ismail Sabri terpaksa meletakkan jawatan sebagai Perdana Menteri kerana ia sama dengan undi tidak percaya.

Kini, sama ada MOU CSR boleh bertahan sehingga Julai 2022 menjadi persoalan berikutan kemenangan besar UMNO dalam pilihan raya negeri Melaka – di kerusi tetapi bukan dalam undi.

Sementara pemimpin UMNO, seperti Presiden UMNO Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Timbalan Presiden, Mohamad Hassan, Ketua Pemuda UMNO Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki dan juga Najib Razak mendesak untuk pilihan raya umum ke-15 diadakan lebih awal, penganalisis politik sebulat suara dalam pandangan mereka bahawa kemenangan BN di Melaka adalah berita buruk untuk Ismail Sabri.

Ini kerana Ismail Sabri mesti membuat keputusan sama ada mahu mengalah kepada tekanan pemimpin UMNO untuk membatalkan MOU CSR dan mengadakan Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 lebih awal, dan menjadi Perdana Menteri dengan tempoh paling singkat lebih pendek daripada Muhyiddin Yassin, atau menjadi Perdana Menteri yang mengotakan janjinya dalam MOU CSR untuk tidak mengadakan pilihan raya umum sehingga Julai 2022.

Rakyat Malaysia akan mengetahui pada 8 Disember sama ada Najib akan berjuang untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia ke-10.

Jika pada tarikh itu, Mahkamah Rayuan membatalkan sabitan kes rasuah RM42 juta SRC International dan hukuman penjara 12 tahun dan denda RM210 juta, berkemungkinan Najib akan melaksanakan rancangannya untuk kembali sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10 dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, sekaligus mengetepikan Ismail Sabri.

Dalam masa sembilan hari, rakyat Malaysia akan tahu sama ada kleptokrasi akan kembali mencengkam negara kita.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 30 November 2021)

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We can agree or disagree with the modus operandi but Malaysians must  be concerned about the need for a  reset of national policies and institutions if we are not to end up as a failed state near Malaysia’s Centennial in 2057

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The proposal by Nazir Razak, the youngest brother of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, and 54 other prominent Malaysians for a reset of national policies and institutions has created a lot of waves, some agreeing while others quite dubious about the initiative.

While we can agree or disagree with the modus operandi of the proposal, Malaysians must be concerned about the need for a reset of national policies and institutions if we are not to end up as a failed state near Malaysia’s Centennial in 2057.

I congratulate Malaysiakini reporter Wong Kah Hui for winning this year’s prestigious Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award chosen from among 200 entrants from 55 countries.

It is an affirmation that Malaysian talents are second to none in the world and there is no reason why Malaysia cannot be a world-class great nation as we are at the confluence of four great civilisations – Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western – if are able to leverage on their values and virtues to create a great Malaysian civilization.

But it cannot be denied that in the past half a century, we have lost our way and one nation after another has overtaken us, whether in international competitiveness, good governance or having an effective and efficient government.

The 22-month Covid-19 Pandemic should be a mirror of Malaysia’s fall from the highest international standards to the extent that we are losing out to Indonesia.

In the last ten days, for instance, Malaysia recorded 52,015 Covid-19 cases and 432 Covid-19 deaths while Indonesia recorded 3,407 Covid-19 cases and 95 Covid-19 deaths.

Even the new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, could not explain the reasons for Malaysia losing out to Indonesia in handling the Covid-19 pandemic.

Nazir and 54 prominent Malaysians have given their reason for Malaysia straggling behind other nations:

“Our prevailing system remains essentially the one designed in the early 1970s, following deliberations by the National Consultative Council (NCC). Reforms such as amendments to the Sedition Act and affirmative action were innovative ways to cater to the needs of the nation at that time.

“But these reforms were not designed to last indefinitely, and, in the case of the New Economic Policy (NEP), a 20-year term limit was set. This national reset took place over 50 years ago, and even though so much has changed for Malaysia and Malaysians, the system remains substantially in place.

“In its early years, the new system was largely successful, bringing much needed political stability, accelerating economic growth, reducing poverty and rebalancing wealth between communities.

“But the system also had negative side effects, namely heightened corruption, the hardening of identity politics and concentration of power, which grew in prominence as the system was prolonged. These negative side effects feed on each other and are at the heart of Malaysia’s systemic dysfunctions today.”

Why have Malaysia’s great plans in the past, including Vision 2020, 1Malaysia and the latest Keluarga Malaysia concept of Prime Minter Ismail Sabri, failed to achieve Malaysia’s objective to be a world-class great nation?

If Malaysia is to regain its lost glory, we must find the reasons for Malaysia’s decline in the past half-a-century so that we can be back on track to become a world-class great nation before Malaysia’s Centennial in 2057.

(Media statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 30th November 2021)

Kita boleh bersetuju atau tidak bersetuju mengenai cara dan bentuknya, tetapi rakyat Malaysia wajar menunjukkan keprihatinan terhadap keperluan untuk menetapkan semula dasar dan institusi negara jika kita tidak mahu menjadi sebuah negara yang gagal menjelang ulang tahun ke-100 penubuhan Malaysia pada 2057

Cadangan Nazir Razak, adik bongsu kepada mantan Perdana Menteri Najib Razak, dan 54 rakyat Malaysia terkemuka lain untuk menetapkan semula dasar dan institusi negara telah menimbulkan banyak reaksi, ada yang bersetuju manakala yang lain agak meragui tentang inisiatif itu.

Walaupun kita mungkin bersetuju atau tidak bersetuju dengan cara dan bentuk cadangan tersebut, rakyat Malaysia wajar menunjukkan keprihatinan tentang keperluan untuk menetapkan semula dasar dan institusi negara jika kita tidak mahu berakhir sebagai sebuah negara gagal menjelang ulang tahun ke-100 penubuhan Malaysia pada 2057.

Saya mengucapkan tahniah kepada wartawan Malaysiakini Wong Kah Hui kerana memenangi Anugerah Wartawan Muda Yayasan Thomson yang berprestij tahun ini yang dipilih daripada 200 peserta dari 55 negara.

Ia adalah satu penegasan bahawa bakat Malaysia tiada tolok tandingannya di dunia dan tidak ada sebab mengapa Malaysia tidak boleh menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia kerana Malaysia adalah titik pertemuan empat tamadun besar – Melayu/Islam, Cina, India dan Barat – jika mampu memanfaatkan nilai-nilai murni empat tamadun tersebut untuk melahirkan tamadun Malaysia yang hebat.

Tetapi tidak dapat dinafikan bahawa dalam setengah abad yang lalu, kita telah kehilangan arah dan satu demi satu negara telah mengatasi kita, sama ada dalam daya saing antarabangsa, tadbir urus yang baik atau mempunyai kerajaan yang berkesan dan cekap.

Pandemik Covid-19 yang berpanjangan selama 22 bulan sepatutnya menjadi cerminan kejatuhan Malaysia daripada piawaian tertinggi antarabangsa sehingga kita tewas kepada Indonesia.

Dalam tempoh sepuluh hari terakhir, misalnya, Malaysia merekodkan 52,015 kes Covid-19 dan 432 korban Covid-19 manakala Indonesia mencatatkan 3,407 kes Covid-19 dan 95 korban Covid-19.

Malah Menteri Kesihatan baharu, Khairy Jamaluddin, tidak dapat menjelaskan punca Malaysia tewas kepada Indonesia dalam menangani wabak Covid-19.

Nazir dan 54 rakyat Malaysia terkemuka telah memberikan alasan mereka mengapa Malaysia ketinggalan berbanding negara lain:

“Sistem lazim kita pada dasarnya kekal yang direka pada awal 1970-an, berikutan perbincangan oleh Majlis Perundingan Kebangsaan (NCC). Pembaharuan seperti pindaan Akta Hasutan dan tindakan afirmatif adalah cara inovatif untuk memenuhi keperluan negara pada masa itu.

“Tetapi pembaharuan ini tidak direka untuk bertahan selama-lamanya, dan dalam kes Dasar Ekonomi Baru (DEB), had penggal 20 tahun telah ditetapkan. Tetapan semula nasional ini berlaku lebih 50 tahun yang lalu, dan walaupun begitu banyak yang telah berubah untuk Malaysia dan rakyat Malaysia, sistem itu kekal dengan ketara.

“Pada tahun-tahun awalnya, sistem baharu itu sebahagian besarnya berjaya, membawa kestabilan politik yang amat diperlukan, mempercepatkan pertumbuhan ekonomi, mengurangkan kemiskinan dan mengimbangi semula kekayaan antara masyarakat.

“Tetapi sistem itu juga mempunyai kesan sampingan yang negatif, iaitu peningkatan rasuah, pengerasan politik identiti dan penumpuan kuasa, yang semakin menonjol apabila sistem itu berpanjangan. Kesan sampingan negatif ini memberi kesan kepada satu sama lain dan merupakan nadi kepada disfungsi sistemik Malaysia hari ini.”

Mengapakah rancangan hebat Malaysia pada masa lalu, termasuk Wawasan 2020, 1Malaysia dan konsep Keluarga Malaysia yang diperkenalkan Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri baru-baru ini, gagal mencapai objektif Malaysia untuk menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia?

Jika Malaysia ingin mendapatkan semula kejayaannya yang hilang, kita mesti mencari punca kemerosotan Malaysia dalam tempoh setengah abad yang lalu supaya kita boleh kembali ke landasan untuk menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia sebelum menjelang ulang tahun ke-100 penubuhan Malaysia pada 2057.

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 30 November 2021)

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