From Lahad Datu, I call on voters in Malaysia to create a political tsunami with voter turnout of over 80 per cent on Polling Day on Nov. 19 to elect Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia  and to save the country from becoming a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state in 30-40 years’ time

(Versi BM)

I call on voters in Malaysia to create a political tsunami with voter turnout of over 80 per cent on Polling Day on Nov. 19 to elect Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia and to save the country from becoming a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state in 30-40 years’ time.

Let this political tsunami of over 80% voter turn-out start with Lahad Datu with Pakatan Harapan winning the 15th General Election – a political tsunami to match the monsoon season of heavy rain and disastrous flooding throughout the country.

The political mood is changing rapidly since the dissolution of Parliament on Oct. 10, 2022 when the UMNO/Barisan Nasional President, Zahid Hamidi said the 15th General Election was the “mother of all elections” to save UMNO/BN leaders from being charged in court for corruption and sent to jail!

Let the Malaysian voters tell the political leaders of all political parties on Nov. 19, 2022 that if they are corrupt, then they should be in jail, like Najib Razak, who is in Kajang Prison for his first batch of 1MDB corruption offences, where he was convicted by nine judges at all levels of the judiciary and sentenced to 12 years’ jail and RM210 million fine.

It is now clear that Malaysians are not so short-sighted as Zahid who want a general election to save UMNO/BN leaders from being charged in court for corruption and being sent to jail, but the 15th General Election’s objective should be to “stop the rot” in Malaysian nation-building and save Malaysia from deteriorating further from a first-rate world-class nation in the early years of Malaysia to a second-rate mediocre country today, and to a failed rogue and kleptocratic state in 30-40 years’ time.

When Parliament was dissolved on Oct. 10, UMNO and BN were sure that they would be returned as the Federal Government in Putrajaya.

After three weeks on Nomination Day on 5th November, 2022, UMNO/BN were not so sure that the 15GE was in their favour.

In the two weeks from Nomination Day to Polling Day on Nov. 19, the political equation has completely changed, and the question is whether there is time to produce a political tsunami on Nov. 19 to send Pakatan Harapan back to Putrajaya, with Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

This will depend on a high voter turnout as a low voter turnout will be advantageous to UMNO/BN, as shown by the Malacca and Johore state general elections earlier.

Let us start from Lahad Datu to make Malaysia great again.

In my school-days in the fifties, two events impressed me considerably:

Firstly, the general Yue Fei, whose mother tattooed on his back the four words, jin Zhong boa guo盡忠報國 (‘serve the country with the utmost loyalty’), but our country is Malaysia and not China.

Secondly, the story of Wen Tianxiang 文天祥 and his immortal words,

人生自古誰無死

留取丹心照汗青

(Humans, since antiquity, have all found death;

(Leave our red hearts to shrine in the writ of history)
 or

(What man is ever immune from death?

(Leave me with a loyal heart shining in the pages of history)

Let all Malaysian voters have the spirit of Ye Fei and Wen Tianxiang.

Let this political tsunami of over 80% voter turn-out start with Lahad Datu with Pakatan Harapan winning the 15th General Election – a political tsunami to match the monsoon season of heavy rain and disastrous flooding throughout the country

I think this is particularly relevant for the 15th General Election, which is probably the most important and critical general election in Malaysian history.

This is probably the last chance to save Malaysia from deteriorating from among the best nations in the world six decades ago to a second-rate mediocre country today, and deteriorating further to become a third-rate failed and rogue kleptocratic state in another 30 to 40 years.

The questions voters in Lahad Datu and Malaysia must ask themselves before Polling Day on Nov. 19 is whether Malaysia is save-able and secondly, whether Malaysia is worth saving. I believe Malaysia is still save-able and worth saving.

In the early years of Malaysia, the nation was among the best countries in the world. We were the most prosperous country in Asia, apart from Japan, but along the way in the last six decades, we have lost our way and we have lost out to Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Vietnam, and if we continue at this rate, we will lose out to more countries in the coming years and decades.

In 1965, one Singapore dollar was equal to one Malaysian ringgit. Fifty-seven years later, in 2022, one Singapore dollar is equal to RM3.39.

Does this show the success or failure of Malaysian nation-building?

A few decades ago, Malaysia was regarded as head and shoulders above China, India and Indonesia in having a good government in the battle against corruption.

But China is likely to overtake Malaysia in the annual Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) before 2030 and Indonesia and India will overtake Malaysia in the TI CPI before 2040.

Why is this so? Why is corruption and abuses of power so prevalent in Malaysia, and will soon be worse than China, Indonesia and India?

Why is Singapore great and world-class?

One of the reasons is Malaysians went to Singapore because they cannot find justice and dignity in Malaysia and went to Singapore to help make Singapore great and world-class.

We have over a million Malaysians in UK, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to help make these nations great when they should remain in Malaysia to make Malaysia great.

This is what the 15GE on Nov. 19 is all about – to have a good government in Putrajaya to make Malaysia great again by returning to the original nation-building principles – constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy, separation of powers, public integrity with minimum of corruption, respect for human rights, and most important of all, recognition that Malaysia can only be great and world-class if the government can unite Malaysians from all races, religions and regions in the country.

(Speech by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang at DAP 15GE ceramah in Lahad Datu on Monday, 14th November 2022 at 8 pm)

Dari Lahad Datu, saya menyeru para pengundi di Malaysia untuk mencipta tsunami politik dengan kadar keluar mengundi melebih 80 peratus pada Hari Mengundi 19 November yang akan datang untuk memilih Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10 dan untuk menyelamatkan negara kita dari menjadi sebuah negara gagal dan kleptokratik dalam 30 ke 40 tahun yang akan datang

Saya menyeru para pengundi di Malaysia untuk mencipta tsunami politik dengan kadar keluar mengundi lebih dari 80 peratus pada hari mengundi 19 November 2020 untuk memilih Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia ke-10 dan untuk menyelamatkan negara kita dari menjadi sebuah negara gagal dan kleptokratik dalam 30 ke 40 tahun yang akan datang.

Biarlah tsunami politik kadar keluar mengundi melebihi 80% ini bermula dengan Lahad Datu dengan kemenangan Pakatan Harapan dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 – satu tsunami politik yang boleh menyaingi cabaran musim tengkujuh dan bencana banjir yang sedang melanda pelbagai tempat di seluruh negara.

Mood politik sedang berubah pantas sejak pembubaran Parlimen pada 10 Oktober 2022, di mana Presiden UMNO/Barisan Nasional, Zahid Hamidi, telah mengatakan Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 adalah “ibu kepada segala pilihan raya” untuk menyelamatkan para pemimpin UMNO/BN dari didakwa di mahkamah atas tuduh rasuah dan dipenjarakan!

Biar rakyat Malaysia tunjukkan kepada semua pemimpin politik dari semua parti politik pada 19 November 2022, yang sekiranya mereka korup, mereka patut berada dalam penjara, seperti Najib Razak yang kini meringkuk dalam Penjara Kajang atas sekumpulan pertama pertuduhan kes rasuah 1MDB, di mana dia telah didapati bersalah oleh sembilan orang hakim di setiap peringkat mahkamah, dan dijatuhkan hukuman penjara 12 tahun dengan denda sebanyak RM210 juta.

Kini sudah jelas, yang rakyat Malaysia tidaklah berpandangan cetek seperti Zahid yang mahukan pilihan raya umum untuk menyelamatkan UMNO/BN dari didakwa di mahkamah atas kesalahan rasuah dan dipenjarakan. Tetapi matlamat sebenar Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 ini sepatutnya untuk “menghentikan kereputan” dalam usaha membina negara Malaysia dan untuk menyelamatkan Malaysia dari terus merosot, daripada sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia pada hari-hari awal negara kita kepada sebuah negara biasa-biasa sahaja hari ini, untuk tidak menjadi sebuah negara gagal dan kleptokratik dalam 30 ke 40 tahun yang akan datang.

Semasa Parlimen dibubarkan pada 10 Oktober, UMNO dan BN amat yakin yang mereka akan kembali sebagai Kerajaan Persekutuan di Putrajaya.

Tiga minggu selepas Hari Penamaan Calon pada 5 November 2022, UMNO/BN tidak lagi sebegitu yakin yang PRU15 akan memihak kepada mereka.

Dalam dua minggu dari Hari Penamaan Calon hingga Hari Mengundi pada 19 November, suasana politik telah berubah sepenuhnya, dan persoalannya adalah sama ada masih ada masa untuk mewujudkan tsunami politik pada 19 November untuk menghantar Pakatan Harapan ke Putrajaya dengan Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10.

Perkara ini bergantung kepada kadar keluar mengundi yang tinggi kerana kadar keluar mengundi yang rendah hanya akan memberikan kelebihan kepada UMNO/BN, seperti yang ditunjukkan dalam pilihan raya negeri Melaka dan Johor sebelum ini.

Marilah kita jadikan Malaysia hebat semula, bermula dengan Lahad Datu.

Dalam zaman persekolahan saya pada tahun 50-an, dua perkara meninggalkan kesan mendalam kepada saya:

Pertama, kisah general Yue Fei, yang mana ibunya telah mencacah empat perkataan, jin Zhong boa guo (berkhidmat untuk negara dengan penuh kesetiaan), tetapi negara di sini merujuk kepada Malaysia dan bukannya China.

Kedua, kisah Wen Tianxhiang dan kata-kata agungnya,

人生自古誰無死

留取丹心照汗青。

Manusia, sejak dari awal zaman, semuanya telah menemui kematian;

Tinggalkan hati keramat kita dalam naskhah sejarah.

Marilah semua pengundi di Malaysia mengambil semangat Yue Fei dan Wen Tianxiang.

Jadikan tsunami politik kadar keluar mengundi melebihi 80% ini bermula dengan Lahad Datu dengan kemenangan Pakatan Harapan dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 – satu tsunami politik yang boleh menyaingi cabaran musim tengkujuh dan bencana banjir yang sedang melanda pelbagai tempat di seluruh negara.

Saya percaya ini amat relevan dengan Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, yang mungkin merupakan pilihan raya umum yang paling penting dan kritikal dalam sejarah negara.

Pilihan raya ini mungkin peluang terakhir untuk kita selamatkan Malaysia dari merosot, daripada sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia pada hari-hari awal negara kita kepada sebuah negara biasa-biasa sahaja hari ini, untuk tidak menjadi sebuah negara gagal dan kleptokratik dalam 30 ke 40 tahun yang akan datang.

Persoalan yang pengundi di Lahad Datuk dan di seluruh negara perlu tanya kepada diri mereka sendiri sebelum Hari Mengundi pada 19 November ini adalah sama ada Malaysia boleh diselamatkan dan patut diselamatkan. Saya percaya Malaysia masih boleh diselamatkan dan patut diselamatkan.

Dalam tahun-tahun awal negara kita, Malaysia adalah antara negara terbaik di dunia. Kita adalah negara yang paling makmur di Asia, selain dari Jepun, tetapi dalam enam dekad yang lepas, kita telah tersesat jalan dan ditinggalkan di belakang Taiwan, Singapura, Hong Kong, Korea Selatan, dan Vietnam, dan jika kita terus berada di dalam hala tuju ini, kita bakal ditinggalkan di belakang lebih banyak negara lagi.

Pada tahun 1965, satu dolar Singapura bersamaan dengan satu Ringgit Malaysia. Lima puluh tujuh tahun kemudian, satu dolar Singapura bersamaan dengan RM3.39.

Adakah perkara ini menunjukkan kejayaan atau kegagalan usaha membina negara?

Beberapa dekad yang lepas, Malaysia dilihat sebagai berada jauh di hadapan China, India, dan Indonesia dalam mempunyai kerajaan yang bagus dalam melawan rasuah.

Tetapi kini China berkemungkinan mengatasi kedudukan Malaysia dalam Indeks Persepsi Rasuah (CPI) Transparency International (TI) sebelum tahun 2030 manakala Indonesia dan India mungkin akan mengatasi kedudukan Malaysia dalam TI-CPI sebelum 2040.

Mengapakah begini? Mengapakah rasuah dan salah guna kuasa sebegitu berleluasa di Malaysia dan tidak lama lagi akan menjadi lebih teruk berbanding di China, Indonesia, dan India?

Mengapakah Singapura boleh jadi hebat?

Salah satu sebabnya adalah rakyat Malaysia yang telah berhijrah ke Singapura kerana mereka tidak dapat mencari keadilan dan kehidupan bermaruah di Malaysia, dan mereka memilih untuk ke Singapura dan dalam berbuat demikian, menjadikan Singapura sebuah negara yang hebat.

Kita ada lebih dari sejuta rakyat Malaysia di UK, Amerika Syarikat, Kanada, Australia, dan New Zealand yang sedang membantu menjadikan negara-negara ini hebat dan bukannya Malaysia.

Inilah perjuangan PRU15 pada 19 November 2022 – untuk meletakkan sebuah kerajaan yang baik di Putrajaya untuk menjadikan Malaysia hebat semula dengan mengembalikan negara kita kepada prinsip-prinsip asas pembinaan negara – raja berperlembagaan, demokrasi berparlimen, pemisahan kuasa, integriti awam dengan rasuah minima, hormat terhadap hak asasi manusia, dan yang paling penting sekali, mengiktiraf yang Malaysia hanya boleh menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia sekiranya kerajaan dapat menyatukan masyarakat majmuk pelbagai kaum, agama, dan kawasan dalam negara.

(Ucapan veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang dalam ceramah PRU15 di Lahad Datu pada hari Isnin, 14 November 2022 jam 8 malam)

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The four candidates for 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia are Zahid Hamidi, Muhyddin Yassin, Hadi Awang and Anwar Ibrahim and not Mahathir Mohamad or Shafie Apdal

I want to  comment on eight issues in the 15th General Election  in this media conference.

Firstly, the 15th General Election is a parliamentary election to vote the coalition which will form the Federal Government in Putrajaya and who is to become the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia, and not to vote for a Sabah State Government or who is to become the Sabah Chief Minister.

Secondly, the four candidates to be the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia in the 15th General Election are UMNO/Barisan Nasional President Zahid Hamidi, Bersatu President Muhyddin Yassin, PAS President  Hadi Awang and Pakatan Harapan President  Anwar Ibrahim.

Dr. Mahathir Mohamad the President of PEJUANG  and the WARISAN chief Shafie Apdal are not candidates for the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia, and neither of them will be the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Thirdly, Sabah cannot be stable and prosperous unless Malaysia is stable and prosperous. It is not possible for Sabah to be stable and prosperous if Malaysia becomes a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state in 30 or 40 years’ time.

Fourthly, there is no country in the world where stability and prosperity is built on rampant corruption and kleptocracy. If Malaysia wants to enjoy stability and prosperity, then there must be an all-out war  to fight corruption.  Najib Razak is responsible for the monstrous 1MDB scandal, but it would not be possible for the 1MDB scandal to continue for so many years if there is a Cabinet of Ministers with honest and upright men and women to stop the scandal.

Fifthly, UMNO is never so divided partly because UMNO members have to defend corruption and UMNO leaders have no money.

There is no 1MDB money like in the last two general election in 2013 and 2018, when money flowed like water because of the 1MDB scandal and Malaysian taxpayers have to pay for such misuse of money in  the mega monstrous 1MDB scandal resulting in Malaysia still owing RM32.08 billion as at June 30, 2022 – according to Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz in Parliament.

It is not that there is no money, but less money and UMNO warlords at the state and divisional level retaining more of the money as UMNO may lose the 15th General Election.

UMNO grassroots should demand that the UMNO warlords at state and divisional level should release 100% of the monies to be used for the election campaign.

Sixthly, the present UMNO leadership should allow UMNO members to return to the nation-building principles of the first four UMNO Presidents, Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein and Hussein Onn.

They should be allowed to condemn corruption and abuses of power, and even  condemn the 1MDB scandal, without having to face disciplinary action.

Seventhly, Pakatan Harapan can win the 15th General Election as the winds of change is blowing in the country, but it depends on  a high voter turnout of more than 80 percent. I call on every voter inside the country and in the Malaysia Diaspora worldwide not only to vote, but to get their family, neighbours and friends to vote to save Malaysia from becoming a failed and kleptocratic state in another 30-40 years and for the sake of our children and children’s children.

Eighthly,  Warisan  15GE campaigners should stop misleading the public, saying in Lahad Datu that a vote for Warisan is a vote for Roket, as Warisan had sent candidates to fight DAP candidates in Sabah and Malaya including Lahad Datu.

(Media Conference Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang at DAP Lahad Datu 15GE Ops Centre on Tuesday, 15th November 2020 at 10 am)

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Call on Malaysian voters inside and outside the country to ensure that the voter turnout is more than 80% so that Anwar Ibrahim can become the 10th Prime Minister and save Malaysia from becoming a failed, rogue, and kleptocratic state in three or four decades

There are only three days of campaigning left for the 15th General Election as polling is on Saturday, November 19, 2022.

From my visit to various parts of the country it is clear that the wind of change is beginning to blow hard, especially after the dissolution of Parliament on Oct. 10, 2022, and the velocity of change took a quantum jump after Nomination Day on Nov. 5, to the extent that the “Court Cluster” in UMNO/BN coalition leadership, headed by their President Zahid Hamidi, is now no more as confident as before that the UMNO/BN coalition would be the clear winner in the 15GE to singly form the Federal Government in Putrajaya.

Zahid is putting up a brave front publicly but, he knows in his heart of hearts that he had dragged down the reputation, popularity and integrity of the UMNO/BN coalition to the lowest level in UMNO history, even to a lower level when UMNO was under the presidency of Najib Razak.

For how long can the UMNO leadership mislead the Malay masses to accept that corruption and kleptocracy are admirable qualities, especially when the early UMNO Presidents like Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein and Hussein Onn are famous for their condemnation of corruption and kleptocracy?

For how long are the UMNO leaders going to frighten the Malays with lies and false information that Malays and Islam are under threat, when there is no anti-Malay, anti-Chinese, anti-Indian, anti-Dayak, anti-Kadazan or anti-Muslim, anti-Buddhist, anti-Christianity and anti-Hindu on the ground at the grassroots?

But whether the velocity for political change has reached the stage that there would be a political tsunami of new hopes and expectations for Malaysia on Polling Day can only be known on Polling Day.

From all accounts, the Pakatan Harapan is likely to win the largest bloc of Members of Parliament on Polling Day, but not enough to reach the simple majority of 112 Parliamentary seats to form the Federal government in Putrajaya, followed by UMNO/BN and Perikatan Nasional — unless there is a high voter turnout, which is favourable to Pakatan Harapan.

As a result, UMNO/BN may team up with Perikatan Nasional to get the simple majority of 112 MPs to form the Federal Government of Malaysia.

I do not expect the 15GE to duplicate the voter turnout of the 14GE, which is some 83% but, I urge all Malaysian voters, inside and outside the country to ensure that the voter turnout is more than 80% so that Anwar Ibrahim can become the 10th Prime Minister and save Malaysia from becoming a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state in three or four decades.

Sarawak cannot be great unless Malaysia is also great. How is Sarawak and Malaysia to get stability and prosperity if Malaysia is a failed, rogue, and kleptocratic nation in three or four decades?

We have failed in nation-building as when Malaysia was formed, we were the richest country in Asia after Japan, but in the past six decades, we have lost out to Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Vietnam.

In 1965, one Singapore dollar was worth one Malaysian ringgit. Today, one Singapore dollar is worth RM3.39.

Do we need more evidence to show the Malaysia had failed in the last six decades?

But Malaysia can still be saved and worth saving, for we have not become a failed, rogue, and kleptocratic state like Sri Lanka or Zimbabwe.

We have fallen from a first-rate world-class great country in six decades to become a second-rate mediocre country, but we have not fallen to a third-class failed, rogue, and kleptocratic state, which will take another three or four decades.

We must save ourselves and return to our earlier promise of a first-rate world-class great country. But we must start now, with Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister, as the other candidates for the 10th Prime Minister, whether Zahid Hamidi, Bersatu President Muhyiddin Yassin or PAS President Hadi Awang do not admit that we have failed in nation-building in the last six decades.

Under them, Malaysia end up as a failed, rogue, and kleptocratic state in three or four decades.

(Media Conference Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang at a media conference in Kuching on Wednesday, 16th November 2022 at 11 am)

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DAP MPs opposed the 1976 Malaysian Constitution Amendment to downgrade Sabah and Sarawak from “territories” to “states” while all government MPs in Sabah and Sarawak voted in support of the Constitution Amendment

(Versi BM)

The 15th General Election on Nov. 19, 2022 is a Malaysian Parliamentary Election to elect the Federal Government in Putrajaya and decide who will be the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia and not a Sabah state election to elect the Sabah state government and the Sabah state chief minister.

DAP had always been in the forefront upholding healthy and proper Federal-State relations in the last six decades.

This is why all the Sabah and Sarawak government Members of Parliament supported the Malaysian Constitution Amendment on July 13, 1976 to downgrade Sabah and Sarawak from “territories” to “states”, which all DAP MPs (including me) opposed and voted against the Malaysian Constitution Amendment.

Now, Sabah and Sarawak want to further amend the Malaysian Constitution to restore the status of Sabah and Sarawak from “states” to “territories”.

Why then amend the Malaysian Constitution in 1976 to downgrade the status of Sabah and Sarawak from “territories” to “states”?

Can all the government political parties explain why in 1976, their Members of Parliament supported the downgrading of Sabah and Sarawak from “territories” to “states”?

This is like the Batu Sumpah to be found in Keningau.

For close to half a century, the Keningau Batu Sumpah had been completely forgotten whether by national or Sabah leaders, and never been raised in the Malaysian Parliament until I visited Keningau in March 2010 together with two DAP MPs, Teo Nie Ching and Lim Lip Eng.

Until then, I had never heard of the Keningau Batu Sumpah because no one ever raised it not even in Parliament by Sabah Barisan Nasional Members of Parliament.

The Keningau Batu Sumpah inscribed the historic guarantees given to Sabahans in the interior for Sabah’s joining in forming Malaysia in 1963 – about freedom of religion, that land will forever be a state matter and customary rights will forever be respected and safeguarded by the government.

After my March 2010 visit to the Keningau Batu Sumpah, it was clear that the solemn pledges laid out in the trinity of rights to Sabahans from the interior in exchange for the formation of Malaysia had not been honoured and fulfilled.

As a result, I became the first Member of Parliament to raise the Keningau Batu Sumpah issue in Parliament, and since then, DAP MPs from Sabah had consistently raised the issue in Parliament.

We also launched a Batu Sumpah Awareness campaign, and Czech writer Milan Kundera’s famous quote “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” was most apt to use during the Batu Sumpah Awareness Campaign.

This is the proof that through the last six decades, the DAP had been better champions of the right of Sabah and Sarawak than Sabah government MPs.

The Pakatan Harapan candidate for the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, had announced in Sarawak that if Pakatan Harapan returns to Putrjayaa in the 15th General Election, it will resolve all the issues to restore the rights of Sabah and Sarawak in accordance with the Malaysia Agreement 1963.

If Pakatan Government had five years, and not toppled by the undemocratic and illegitimate Sheraton Move political conspiracy, the PH government would have implemented its election promises to restore the rights of Sabah and Sarawak in accordance with the Malaysia Agreement 1963.

Many had claimed that the Pakatan Harapan government failed to restore the rights of Sabah and Sarawak – but the PH government had only 22 months before it was toppled when it was an election manifesto for five years.

The two backdoor governments of Muhyiddin Yassin and Ismail Sabri had a total tenure of 31 months – longer than the 22-month PH government – but have these two backdoor governments restored the rights of Sabah and Sarawak according to Malaysia Agreement 1963 ? The answer is a thunderous “NO”.

Who is to be believed – the PH government or the two backdoor governments of Muhyiddin and Ismail Sabri?

(Speech by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang at a DAP 15GE ceramah at Kg Senagang in Keningau parliamentary constituency in Sabah on Tuesday, 15th November 2022 at 5 pm)

MP DAP membantah Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976 untuk menurunkan taraf Sabah dan Sarawak dari “wilayah” kepada “negeri” sedangkan MP kerajaan dari Sabah dan Sarawak mengundi untuk menyokong Pindaan Perlembagaan ini

Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 pada 19 November 2022 adalah satu Pilihan Raya Parlimen untuk memilih siapa yang akan membentuk Kerajaan Persekutuan di Putrajaya dan memutuskan siapa yang akan menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10, bukannya satu pilihan raya negeri Sabah untuk memilih Kerajaan Negeri Sabah dan Ketua Menteri Sabah.

DAP sentiasa berada di barisan hadapan untuk mempertahankan hubungan yang sihat di antara Kerajaan Persekutuan dengan Kerajaan Negeri dalam enam dekad yang lepas.

Kerana inilah ketika semua Ahli-ahli Parlimen Sabah dan Sarawak dari barisan kerajaan menyokong Pindaan Perlembagaan pada 13 Julai 1976 untuk menurunkan taraf Sabah dan Sarawak dari “wilayah” kepada “negeri”, semua Ahli-ahli Parlimen DAP (termasuk saya) telah menentang dan mengundi untuk menolak pindaan ini.

Kini, Sabah dan Sarawak mahukan lebih banyak pindaan kepada Perlembagaan Persekutuan untuk mengembalikan status Sabah dan Sarawak dari sebuah “negeri” ke sebuah “wilayah”.

Mengapa pinda Perlembagaan Malaysia pada tahun 1976 untuk menurunkan status Sabah dan Sarawak dari “wilayah” kepada “negeri”?

Bolehkah semua parti-parti politik dalam kerajaan menjelaskan, mengapa pada tahun 1976. Ahli-ahli Parlimen mereka menyokong pindaan untuk menurunkan taraf Sabah dan Sarawak dari sebuah “wilayah” kepada “negeri”?

Perkara ini sama seperti kes Batu Sumpah yang ditemui di Keningau.

Selama hampir setengah abad, Batu Sumpah Keningau hampir dilupakan sepenuhnya sama ada oleh para pemimpin kebangsaan mahupun pemimpin Sabah dan tidak pernah dibangkitkan di Parlimen Malaysia sehinggalah saya melawat Keningau pada bulan Mac 2010 bersama dengan dua orang lagi Ahli Parlimen DAP, Teo Nie Ching dan Lim Lip Eng.

Sebelum itu, saya sendiri tidak pernah dengar Batu Sumpah Keningau ini kerana tidak ada sesiapa pun pernah menyebut apa-apa mengenainya, malah Ahli-ahli Parlimen Barisan Nasional Sabah sendiri pun tidak pernah menyebut apa-apa mengenai Batu Sumpah ini.

Di Batu Sumpah Keningau ini terpahat satu jaminan bersejarah yang diberikan kepada rakyat Sabah di pedalaman mengenai penyertaan Sabah ke dalam Persekutuan Malaysia pada tahun 1963 – tentang jaminan kebebasan beragama, hal ehwal tanah akan selama-lamanya menjadi bidang kuasa negeri, dan hak adat akan selama-lamanya menjadi dihormati dan dilindungi oleh kerajaan.

Selepas lawatan saya ke Batu Sumpah Keningau pada bulan Mac 2010, jelas sekali janji-janji mengenai tiga hak yang diberikan kepada rakyat Sabah di pedalaman ini tidak ditepati dan dipenuhi.

Hasilnya, saya menjadi Ahli Parlimen pertama yang membangkitkan isu mengenai Batu Sumpah Keningau di Parlimen dan sejak dari waktu itu, Ahli-ahli Parlimen dari Sabah secara konsisten telah membangkitkan isu-isu ini di Parlimen.

Kami juga telah melancarkan kempen Kesedaran Batu Sumpah, di mana kata-kata penulis Czech yang terkenal, Milan Kundera; “Perjuangan manusia melawan kuasa adalah perjuangan memori melawan lupa” menggambarkan keseluruhan kempen kesedaran ini.

Perkara ini menjadi bukti yang dalam enam dekad yang lepas, DAP telah menjadi pejuang hak Sabah dan Sarawak yang lebih baik berbanding dengan Ahli-ahli Parlimen kerajaan dari Sabah sendiri.

Calon Perdana Menteri ke-10 Pakatan Harapan, Anwar Ibrahim, telah mengumumkan di Sarawak yang sekiranya Pakatan Harapan kembali ke Putrajaya pada selepas Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, kita akan menyelesaikan semua isu mengenai hak-hak Sabah dan Sarawak selari dengan Perjanjian Malaysia 1963.

Sekiranya Pakatan Harapan telah diberikan lima tahun, dan tidak ditumbangkan melalui konspirasi Langkah Sheraton yang tidak demokratik dan tidak sah, kerajaan PH pastinya akan berjaya memenuhi janji-janji pilihan rayanya untuk mengembalikan hak-hak Sabah dan Sarawak selari dengan Perjanjian Malaysia 1963.

Ramai yang telah mendakwa yang kerajaan Pakatan Harapan gagal untuk mengembalikan hak-hak Sabah dan Sarawak — tetapi kerajaan PH hanya ada 22 bulan sebelum ditumbangkan sedangkan manifesto pilihan rayanya dirancang untuk dilaksanakan dalam tempoh lima tahun.

Dua kerajaan pintu belakang Muhyiddin Yassin dan Ismail Sabri bersama-sama mempunyai tempoh selama 31 bulan — lebih panjang berbanding dengan 22 bulan kerajaan PH – tetapi adakah mereka telah mengembalikan hak-hak Sabah dan Sarawak selari dengan peruntukan Perjanjian Malaysia 1963? Jawapannya sangat jelas, TIDAK.

Siapakah yang patut dipercayai – kerajaan PH atau dua kerajaan pintu belakang Muhyiddin dan Ismail Sabri?

(Ucapan veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang dalam ceramah PRU15 di Kg Senagang dalam kawasan parlimen Keningau di Sabah pada hari Selasa, 15 November 2022 jam 5 petang)

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If Pakatan Harapan wins the 15GE, I will set up a special office to promote the restoration of the rights of Sabah and Sarawak in accordance with Malaysia Agreement 1963

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If Pakatan Harapan wins the 15th General Election and Anwar Ibrahm becomes the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia , I will set up a special office to promote the restoration of the rights of Sabah and Sarawak in accordance with Malaysia Agreement 1963.

It is a great disgrace to Sabah and Malaysia that Sabah, with so many resources, is one of the poorest areas in Malaysia.

Poverty in Sabah is in double-digit figure.

Every Sabahan must ask why Sabah, one of the territories endowed with the richest natural resources like oil, gas, timber and fertile soil, should end up as the poorest territory in the country six decades after the formation of Malaysia!

If there is no corruption and abuses of power, and good governance is the order of the day in the last six decades, Sabah’s rich resources should be reflected in the poverty rate, and as Sabah is one of the richest states in the country, the poverty rate in Sabah should be below the national poverty rate.

Before Malaysia was formed in 1963, delegation from delegation of representatives from Sabah and Sarawak visited Peninsular Malaysia to see the progress and infrastructural development in Peninsular Malaysia..

Sabahans and Sarawakians were promised before Malaysia was formed in 1963 that if Sabah and Sarawak joined in the formation of Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak will enjoy the progress and infrastructure development in Malaya.

Almost six decades have passed, but Sabahans and Sarawakians are still as poor as ever, and even the three pledges in Keningau Batu Sumpah to uphold the three pledges of “Ugama Bebas Dalam Sabah”, “Tanah Tanah dalam Sabah di kuasai oleh Kerajaan Sabah” and “Adat Istiadat anak rayat Sabah dihormatkan dan dipelihara oleh Kerajaan” had been neglected.

Even the much-talked-about Pan-Borneo Highway has not been completed 60 years after the formation of Malaysia

Only in one thing Sabah is the match with Federal Government — corruption is as rampant in ‘Sabah as in Kuala Lumpur. This is a curse which must be eradicated.

One of the first tasks of my special office for the restoration of rights of Sabah in accordance with Malaysia Agreement 1963 will be on the Keningau Batu Sumpah — the extent the three pledges had been honoured n the past 60 years.

(Speech by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang at a DAP 15GE ceramah in Tenom on Tuesday, 15th November 2022 at 7pm)

Sekiranya Pakatan Harapan menang dalam PRU15, saya akan bentuk satu pejabat khas untuk mempromosikan pengembalian hak-hak Sabah dan Sarawak selari dengna peruntukan Perjanjian Malaysia 1963

Sekiranya Pakatan Harapan menang dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 dan Anwar Ibrahim menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10, saya akan bentuk satu pejabat khas untuk mempromosikan pengembalian hak-hak Sabah dan Sarawak selari dengna peruntukan Perjanjian Malaysia 1963.

Menjadi satu perkara yang amat memalukan kepada Sabah dan Malaysia apabila Sabah yang mempunyai sebegitu banyak hasil, masih merupakan salah satu kawasan termiskin dalam Malaysia.

Kadar kemiskinan di Sabah berada dalam julat dua angka.

Setiap rakyat Sabah perlu bertanya, mengapa Sabah, sebagai salah satu wilayah yang terkaya dengan sumber asli seperti minyak, gas, balak, dan tanah yang subur, menerima nasib sebagai salah satu kawasan termiskin dalam negara enam dekad selepas Malaysia dibentuk!

Sekiranya tidak ada rasuah dan penyalagunaan kuasa, dan tadbir urus yang baik menjadi perkara biasa dalam enam dekad yang lepas, hasil-hasil kaya Sabah ini patut dapat dilihat dalam kadar kemiskinan Sabah dan Sabah patutnya menjadi wilayah terkaya dalam negara dengan kadar kemiskinan yang berada di bawah paras purata nasional.

Sebelum Malaysia dibentuk pada tahun 1963, perwakilan dari delegasi yang mewakili Sabah dan Sarawak telah melawat Semenanjung Malaysia untuk melihat kemajuan dan pembangunan infrastruktur di Semenanjung.

Rakyat Sabah dan Sarawak dijanjikan sebelum pembentukan Malaysia pada tahun 1963 yang sekiranya Sabah dan Sarawak menyertai pembentukan Malaysia, Sabah dan Sarawak juga akan menikmati kemajuan dan pembangunan infrastruktur seperti di Malaya.

Hampir enam dekad telah berlalu, tetapi rakyat Sabah dan Sarawak masih kekal miskin, malah tiga janji yang terpahat pada Batu Sumpah Keningau, “Ugama Bebas Dalam Sabah”, “Tanah Tanah dalam Sabah di kuasai oleh Kerajaan Sabah”, dan “Adat Istiadat anak rayat Sabah dihormatkan dan dipelihara oleh Kerajaan” telah diabaikan.

Malah, Lebuhraya Pan-Borneo yang sering disebut-sebut juga masih belum siap selepas 60 tahun pembentukan Malaysia.

Hanya satu perkara yang Sabah berjaya saingi Kerajaan Persekutuan — rasuah berleluasa di Sabah seperti mana di Kuala Lumpur. Inilah sumpahan yang perlu dihapuskan dari Sabah.

Salah satu tugas pertama pejabat khas untuk mengembalikan hak-hak Sabah selari dengan Perjanjian Malaysia 1963 adalah berkenaan dengan Batu Sumpah Keningau — untuk memastikan sejauh mana tiga janji ini telah ditepati dalam 60 tahun yang lepas.

(Ucapan veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang dalam ceramah PRU15 DAP di Tenom pada hari Selasa 15 November 2022, jam 7 malam)

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I missed a step and fell outside my hotel at Kota Kinabalu this morning, but this is small fall compared to the big fall of Malaysia in the last six decades and the bigger fall in three or four decades’ time when Malaysia would fall from a first-rate world-class country to a third-rate failed, rogue and kleptocratic state

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I missed a step and fell outside my hotel in Kota Kinabalu this morning, but this is a small fall compared to the big fall Malaysia experienced in the last six decades and the bigger fall in three or four decades’ time when Malaysia would fall from a first-rate world-class country to a third-rate failed, rogue, and kleptocratic state like Sri Lanka or Zimbabwe.

Three persons saw me fall in Kota Kinabalu this morning, but some 10 billion people throughout the world in four decades will see Malaysia fall from a first-rate world-class plural nation sixty years ago to a third-rate failed, rogue, and kleptocratic state in 2060.

I am 81 years old and am not a candidate in the 15th General Election but I am as busy or even busier than a candidate in the two weeks between Nomination to Polling Day on Nov. 19.

I have visited Penang, Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Pahang, Malacca, Johore, Sabah and Sarawak and would have clocked some 15,000 kilometres in these two weeks between Nomination and Polling Day.

Malaysia’s Big Fall in 2060 is more important than my small fall in Kota Kinabalu this morning, and every Malaysian, regardless of age, race, religion or region, should do everything possible to prevent Malaysia undergo the Big Fall in 2060. In fact, I am prepared to give my life to prevent Malaysia from suffering the Big Fall in 2060.

This is why of all the candidates to be the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim is the most suitable and qualified to prevent Malaysia from suffering the Big Fall in 2060, as the other candidates do not acknowledge that Malaysia can suffer a Big Fall in 2060, even denying that Malaysia had fallen from a first-rate world-class status to a second-rate mediocre nation after sixty years.

One of the reasons why Malaysia had failed in nation-building in the last six decades was the lack of a good government in Putrajaya.

It is a matter of great shame for Malaysia that we are losing out to China, India and Indonesia in having a good government where corruption and abuses of power is minimal.

Malaysians need a Prime Minister who can ensure that Malaysia will better than China, India and Indonesia in having a good government where there is minimal corruption and abuses of power. This is why Malaysia needs Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia to start the process to make Malaysia great again.

(Speech by DAP veteran Lim Ki Siang at the DAP 15GE Ceramah in Bintulu on Wednesday, 16th November 2022 at 8 pm)

Saya tersilap langkah dan terjatuh di luar hotel saya di Kota Kinabalu pagi ini, tetapi kemalangan ini adalah perkara kecil berbanding dengan kejatuhan Malaysia dalam enam dekad yang lepas atau kejatuhan Malaysia dalam tiga ke empat dekad yang akan datang apabila Malaysia jatuh dari sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia ke sebuah negara gagal dan kleptokratik

Saya tersilap langkah dan terjatuh di luar hotel saya di Kota Kinabalu pagi ini, tetapi kemalangan ini adalah perkara kecil berbanding dengan kejatuhan Malaysia dalam enam dekad yang lepas atau kejatuhan Malaysia dalam tiga ke empat dekad yang akan datang apabila Malaysia jatuh dari sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia ke sebuah negara gagal dan kleptokratik seperti Sri Lanka atau Zimbabwe.

Tiga orang nampak saya terjatuh pagi ini di Kota Kinabalu, tetapi kira-kira 10 billion orang di seluruh dunia dalam empat dekad akan menyaksikan kejatuhan Malaysia dari sebuah negara majmuk hebat bertaraf dunia enam puluh tahun lepas kepada sebuah negara gagal dan kleptokratik pada tahun 2060.

Saya kini berusia 81 tahun dan bukan seorang calon dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, tetapi saya tetap sibuk, malah mungkin lebih sibuk berbanding dengan seorang calon dalam dua minggu di antara Hari Penamaan Calon dan Hari Mengundi yang akan datang pada 19 November.

Saya telah melawat Pulau Pinang, Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Pahang, Melaka, Johor, Sabah, dan Sarawak, dan mungkin telah merekodkan sejumlah 15,000 kilometer perjalanan dalam tempoh dua minggu ini.

Kejatuhan Besar Malaysia pada tahun 2060 adalah jauh lebih membimbangkan berbanding dengan kemalangan saya di Kota Kinabalu pagi ini, dan semua rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira umur, kaum, agama, atau kawasan, perlu melakukan apa sahaja yang terdaya untuk mengelakkan perkara ini dari terjadi. Malah, saya bersedia untuk berkorban nyawa untuk mengelakkan Kejatuhan Besar Malaysia pada tahun 2060.

Kerana inilah, daripada semua calon-calon Perdana Menteri Malaysia ke-10, Anwar Ibrahim adalah yang paling sesuai dan layak untuk menyelamatkan Malaysia kerana calon-calon lain ini tidak mengakui pun yang Malaysia bakal berhadapan dengan Kejatuhan Besar menjelang 2060, malah, ada yang menafikan yang Malaysia telah jatuh dari asalnya sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia kepada negara yang biasa-biasa sahaja selepas enam puluh tahun.

Salah satu sebab mengapa Malaysia telah gagal dalam pembinaan negara dalam enam dekad yang lepas adalah kerana tidak adanya kerajaan yang baik di Putrajaya.

Menjadi satu perkara yang memalukan untuk Malaysia apabila kita ditinggalkan di belakang China, India, dan Indonesia dalam mempunyai kerajaan yang lebih baik dengan sejumlah minima rasuah dan salah guna kuasa.

Rakyat Malaysia memerlukan seorang Perdana Menteri yang dapat memastikan Malaysia akan menjadi lebih baik berbanding dengan China, India, dan Indonesia dengan mempunyai kerajaan yang lebih baik dengan rasuah dan salah guna kuasa yang minima. Kerana inilah Malaysia memerlukan Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10 untuk memulakan proses untuk menjadikan Malaysia hebat semula.

(Ucapan veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang dalam ceramah PRU15 DAP di Bintulu pada hari Rabu, 16 November 2022 jam 8 malam)

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Pakatan Harapan can win outright and Anwar Ibrahim become the 10th Prime Minister, if Malaysians go all out to vote and achieve over 80 per cent voter turnout on Saturday

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Open Letter to the Voters of Malaysia

Pakatan Harapan can win outright, and Anwar Ibrahim become the 10th Prime Minister if Malaysians go all out to vote and achieve over 80 per cent voter turnout on Saturday

I have tried my very best to impress on Malaysian voters in the 15GE to focus on one issue: how to regain Malaysia’s original dream to be a “beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world” as Malaysia has fallen to a second-rate mediocre nation after six decades, and we do not want to be a third-rate failed, divided, rogue, and kleptocratic state by Malaysia’s Centennial.

But the toxic politics of race and religion, and the toxic politics of lies, falsehood and fake news were fully activated in the 15GE to distract Malaysians from this greatest issue in Malaysia — how plural Malaysia is not to fail in nation-building and end up as a third-rate failed and divided state after 100 years.

I have been to eight states and clocked some 15,000 kilometres in the last two weeks of election campaign, and everywhere I went, I do not come across any anti-Malay, anti-Chinese, anti-Indian, anti-Dayak, anti-Kadazan or anti-Muslim, anti-Buddhist, anti-Hindu, anti-Christianity sentiment on the ground, confirming that Malaysians are the most tolerant and sensitive of people.

But during elections, there are political parties and personalities who want Malaysians to believe that the Malays, Chinese, Indians, Dayaks, Kadazans or Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity are under threat and face extinction and there were lies, falsehoods and fake news galore to sustain this fake impression.

Why is this so? Who want to threaten the Malays, Chinese, Indians, Dayaks, Kadazans or wipe out Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity in Malaysia?

I always believe that Malaysia can be a great plural nation because Malaysia stand at the confluence of four great civilisations — Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian, and Western — and if we can leverage on the values and virtues of these four great civilisations, Malaysia can be a great nation, better than the countries in the Middle East, China, India, and Indonesia.

What is stopping Malaysia from benefiting from our strategic position as the confluence of four great civilisations?

The guilty parties are the lies, falsehood, and fake news which the age of information and the social media have given wings to misinform and misguide the public.

Can Malaysia be liberated from these lies, falsehoods, and fake news?

Pakatan Harapan can win outright and Anwar Ibrahim become the 10th Prime Minister, if Malaysians go all out to vote and achieve over 80 per cent voter turnout on Saturday.

This is the question that will be decided in Malaysia on November 19, 2022.

(Open Letter to the Voters of Malaysia by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang on Thursday, 17th November 2022)

Pakatan Harapan boleh terus menang dan Anwar Ibrahim akan menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-10 sekiranya semua rakyat Malaysia keluar beramai-ramai mengundi dan mencapai 80 peratus kadar keluar mengundi pada hari Sabtu

Surat Terbuka kepada Para Pengundi Malaysia

Saya telah cuba sebaik mungkin untuk meyakinkan para pengundi Malaysia dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 untuk fokus kepada satu isu: bagaimana untuk mengembalikan impian asal Malaysia, untuk menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang sukar dan terganggu” memandangkan Malaysia kini sudah jatuh menjadi sebuah negara yang biasa-biasa sahaja selepas enam dekad, dan kita tidak mahu Malaysia terus menjadi negara yang berpecah belah, gagal, dan kleptokratik menjelang ulang tahun ke-100 negara.

Namun, politik toksik perkauman dan keagamaan dan politik toksik penipuan, fitnah, dan berita palsu telah diaktifkan sepenuhnya dalam PRU15 untuk mengalihkan perhatian rakyat Malaysia dari isu terbesar yang di depan kita – bagaimana untuk memastikan Malaysia yang majmuk tidak gagal usaha kita untuk membina negara dan berakhir sebagai sebuah negara gagal selepas 100 tahun.

Saya telah ke lapan negeri dan merekodkan kira-kira 15,000 kilometer dalam dua minggu tempoh berkempen, dan ke mana-mana sahaja yang saya pergi, saya tidak lihat apa-apa sentimen anti Melayu, Cina, India, Dayak, Kadazan, atau sentimen anti Islam, Buddha, Hindu, Kristian di lapangan, menunjukkan yang rakyat Malaysia sebenarnya amat bersifat toleransi dan sensitif.

Tetapi, semasa kempen pilihan raya, terdapat parti politik dan sesetengah personaliti yang mahu rakyat Malaysia untuk percaya yang orang Melayu, Cina, India, Dayak, Kadazan, atau orang Islam, Buddha, Hindu, Kristian, terancam dan bakal terhapus, maka tersebarlah penipuan, fitnah, dan berita palsu untuk menghidupkan gambaran palsu ini.

Mengapakah begini? Siapakah yang mengancam orang Melayu, Cina, India, Dayak, Kadazan atau cuba untuk menghapuskan Islam, Buddha, Hindu, dan Kristian di Malaysia ini?

Saya sentiasa percaya yang Malaysia boleh menjadi sebuah negara majmuk yang hebat kerana kita berada di titik pertemuan empat tamadun hebat – Melayu/Islam, Cina, India, dan Barat – dan sekiranya kita dapat menggembeleng nilai-nilai terbaik dari keempat-empat tamadun ini, Malaysia boleh menjadi sebuah negara hebat, yang lebih baik berbanding mana-mana negara di Timur Tengah, China, India, atau Indonesia.

Apakah perkara yang menghalang kita dari meraih manfaat dari kedudukan strategik kita sebagai titik pertemuan empat tamadun hebat dunia ini?

Sudah tentu sekali penipuan, fitnah, dan berita palsu yang mana dalam era informasi dan media sosial, tersebar dengan amat pantas untuk mengelirukan orang awam.

Bolehkah Malaysia dibebaskan dari belenggu penipuan, fitnah, dan berita palsu?

Pakatan Harapan boleh menang dengan jelas dan Anwar Ibrahim boleh menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10 sekiranya rakyat Malaysia keluar mengundi secara besar-besaran dan mencapai 80% kadar keluar mengundi para hari Sabtu ini.

Inilah persoalan yang perlu dijawab kita semua pada 19 November 2022.

(Surat Terbuka dari Veteran DAP kepada Para Pengundi Malaysia pada hari Khamis, 17 November 2022)

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Advice to Muhyiddin and Hadi not to be desperadoes and not to go against the teachings of Islam and all great religions not to resort to lies and falsehood just for worldly gains

I arrived in Penang only at 5.30 am this morning.

After logging about 15,000 kilometres in the two-week election campaign since Nomination Day on Nov 5, 2022, covering Penang, Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Pahang, Malacca, Johore, Sabah and Sarawak to campaign for Pakatan Harapan candidates and Pakatan Harapan President Anwar Ibrahim to be made the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia to head a Pakatan Harapan Federal Government in Putrajaya, speaking at two to three ceramahs a night, I took the last flight from Kuala Lumpur to Penang at 11.20 pm yesterday, 16th November 2022.

As I was dead tired from the travelling and had a fall in front of the Kota Kinabalu hotel I was staying at on Wednesday morning, I slept on the plane during the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Penang.

I woke up to the plane announcement that we had landed at KLIA. My watch — an ordinary one not like the million-ringgit watch worn by UMNO/BN President, Zahid Hamidi — says one o’clock in the morning.

I thought the announcer had announced wrongly the Penang International Airport as KLIA and somehow the watch had gone haywire.

It was with some shock that I found that the announcement and the watch were right, as the plane was back in KLIA because of bad weather at the Penang International Airport and the plane could not land and was running out of fuel.

The flight was rescheduled to depart KLIA for Penang at 4 a.m.

It was then that I found that it was a fairly full flight, with Malaysians coming back from London, Sydney, Singapore and other parts of the world to vote for the 15th General Election on Saturday, 19th November 2022.

Clearly Malaysians all over the world are rooting for Anwar Ibrahim to become the 10th Prime Minister to make Malaysia great again to rewrite Malaysia’s fate and trajectory to be a failed, rogue and divided nation by 2060 and instead to regain our original position to be a world-class nation and to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”, as aspired by Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman.

Tomorrow is Polling Day.

I advise the Bersatu President, Muhyiddin Yassin and the PAS President Hadi Awang not to be desperadoes and not to go against the teachings of Islam and all great religions of the world not to resort to lies and falsehoods just for worldly gains.

Muhyiddin has resorted to lies and falsehoods when he alleged that the Pakatan Harapan was an “agent of Jews and Christians” who were out to colonise Malaysia!

He also claimed that a group of Jews and Christians were plotting for Malaysia to be ruled by their proxy – Pakatan Harapan.

Could Muhyiddin produce the evidence to substantiate his allegation, or he is unable to do so just as he was unable to justify the detention of a DAP State Exco Member and another DAP State Assemblyman for alleged links to the Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers?

The Council of Churches of Malaysia (CCM) has denied there were any attempt to Christianise the Muslims or turn Malaysia into a “colony” of the Jews and

Christians, just as Muhyiddin was unable to prove that any Malaysian were involved with the Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers in 2019.

I do not believe that the Malaysian authorities would conduct an investigation into the allegation that the there was a movement to make Malaysia a colony of the Jews and Christians, as it exists only in Muhyiddin’s fevered imagination.

When did Muhyiddin discover that there was a plot of the Jews and Christians to make Malaysia their colony. Was it before Muhyiddin approached me in 2016 asking for DAP support for him to become Prime Minister of Malaysia, or only in the last few days?

If the latter, how did Muhyiddin discover the plot of the Jews and Christians, when he was unable to discover the plot when he was Home Minister in the Pakatan Harapan government?

Muhyiddin is doing what the PAS President, Hadi Awang had already done!

During the 15GE campaign, Hadi had alleged that the DAP was anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Royalty, which were not only libellous and complete lies.

Recently, he made frequent attacks on the DAP, even alleging that the DAP leaders were communist.

I have been a Member of Parliament for some 50 years and Parliamentary Leader of Opposition for some 30 years, and I never knew that I was a communist.

How come the super-efficient Special Branch of Malaysia did not know that I was a communist, but Hadi knew?

How can Hadi aspire to be Prime Minister when he is prepared to tell lies?

Does Hadi remember what he said during the Teluk Intan by-election in May 2014?

Hadi had praised Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, the DAP candidate for the Teluk Intan by-election for making DAP her political party of choice despite being a Malay.

Abdul Hadi had hit back at detractors who had criticised PAS for choosing to partner DAP, saying PAS has more in common with DAP than with Umno.

He said: “We feel that Dyana is brave to be a candidate, more so a DAP candidate.”

Abdul Hadi reminded PAS members that DAP had helped PAS when the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition tried to oust the Islamist party from ruling Kelantan during the 1977 Kelantan Emergency.

He said although there are so many things different between DAP and PAS, like what is halal (permissible) and haram (forbidden), alcohol and pork, hudud, the two parties agree with each other in eradicating poverty, cruelty and corruption, among others.

Let Hadi tell Malaysians what happened after the Teluk Intan by-election in 2014, where PAS leadership did a somersault and decided they have more in common with UMNO, supporting Najib Razak and his 1MDB scandal?

Does Islam teach its leaders to tell lies and untruths and to co-operate with those guilty of corruption?

Between Muhyiddin and Hadi, who will become the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia?

This depends on whether Muhyiddin is defeated by UMNO in the 15GE tomorrow. If Azmin Ali is defeated in Gombak, and furthermore, PAS wins more parliamentary seats than Bersatu, Hadi will have legitimate reasons to claim the leadership of Perikatan Nasional.

Are we then on the verge of having Hadi as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia if the voter turnout is as low as in the Malacca and Johor state general elections?

(Media Conference by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in a walkabout in Tanjong, Penang on Friday 18th November 2022 at 9 am)

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Malaysians all over the world are rooting for Anwar Ibrahim to become the 10th Prime Minister to make Malaysia great again to rewrite Malaysia’s fate and trajectory to be a failed, rogue and divided nation by 2060 and instead to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”

(Versi BM)

After logging about 15,000 kilometres since Nomination Day on Nov 5, 2022, covering Penang, Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Pahang, Malacca, Johore, Sabah and Sarawak to campaign for Pakatan Harapan candidates and Pakatan Harapan President Anwar Ibrahim to be made the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia to head a Pakatan Harapan Federal Government in Putrajaya, speaking at two to three ceramahs a night, I took the last flight from Kuala Lumpur to Penang at 11.20 pm on Thursday, 17th November 2022 to help the Pakatan Harapan/DAP candidate for Tanjong, Penang, Lim Hui Ying, on the last day of the two-week election campaign.

I was dead tired from the travelling, but I was not deterred, despite my fall in front of the Kota Kinabalu hotel I was staying on Tuesday morning due to my missing one step and was determined to campaign for Pakatan Harapan to Save Malaysia from a failed, divided and rogue state in three or four decades.

After my fall in front of the Kota Kinabalu hotel on Tuesday morning, I was in Kuching, Bintulu, Semenyih and Bangi.

Because of my tiredness, I slept on the plane and woke up to announcement that the plane had landed at KLIA. My watch — an ordinary one not like the million-ringgit watch worn by UMNO/BN President, Zahid Hamidi — says one o’clock in the morning.

I thought the announcer had announced wrongly the Penang Airport as KLIA and somehow the watch had gone haywire.

It was with some shock that I found that the announcement and the watch were right, as the plane is back in KLIA because of bad weather at the Penang Airport and the plane could not land and was running out of fuel.

So we are stuck at the KLIA until 4 am when the flight was rescheduled.

It was then that I found that it was a fairly full flight, with Malaysians coming back from London, Sydney and other parts of the world to vote for the 15th General Election on Saturday, 19th November 2022.

Clearly Malaysians all over the world are rooting for Anwar Ibrahim to become the 10th Prime Minister to make Malaysia great again to rewrite Malaysia’s fate and trajectory to be a failed, rogue and divided nation by 2060 and instead to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”, as aspired by Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman.

Malaysia is capable of greater things and achievements instead of becoming a second—rate mediocre country after six decades of nation-building – and worse of all, becoming a third-rate failed, rogue and divided nation in another three or four decades.

Let’s not create another world Diaspora of Malaysians to make other nations great. As Malaysians, regardless of race, language, religion, culture, region, or age should remain in Malaysia to make our country great instead of other nations great.

I call on Malaysian voters inside and outside the country to ensure that the voter turnout is more than 80% so that Anwar Ibrahim can become the 10th Prime Minister and save Malaysia from becoming a failed, divided, rogue, and kleptocratic state in three or four decades.

Let us vote on Saturday, not for the next five years, but for the next 30-40 years for the sake of our children and children’s children to ensure that they have a better life than us.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in KLIA on Friday, 18th November 2022 at 2 a.m)

Rakyat Malaysia di seluruh dunia menyokong untuk Anwar Ibrahim menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10 untuk menjadikan Malaysia hebat sekali dan menetapkan semula hala tuju negara, dari hala tuju sebuah negara gagal dan berpecah belah menjelang 2060 kepada satu “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang sukar dan terganggu”

Selepas mencatatkan perjalanan sejauh 15,000 kilometer sejak hari Penamaan Calon pada 5 November 2022, melawati Pulau Pinang, Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Pahang, Melaka, Johor, Sabah, dan Sarawak untuk berkempen untuk calon-calon Pakatan Harapan dan Presiden Pakatan Harapan, Anwar Ibrahim, bercakap dalam dua ke tiga ceramah setiap malam, saya mengambil penerbangan terakhir dari Kuala Lumpur ke Pulau Pinang pada jam 11:20 malam, hari Khamis 17 November 2022 untuk membantu calon Pakatan Harapan/DAP untuk Tanjong, Lim Hui Ying, dalam hari terakhir kempen yang telah berlangsung selama dua minggu.

Saya amat letih berjalan ke sana sini tetapi saya tidak berputus semangat, walaupun terjatuh di hadapan hotel di Kota Kinabalu pada pagi Selasa kerana tersilap langkah, saya tekad untuk meneruskan kempen Pakatan Harapan untuk menyelamatkan Malaysia dari menjadi sebuah negara gagal dan berpecah belah dalam tiga ke empat dekad yang akan datang.

Selepas terjatuh di depan hotel di Kota Kinabalu pada pagi Selasa, saya telah ke Kuching, Bintulu, Semenyih, dan Bangi.

Kerana keletihan, saya telah tidur dalam kapal terbang dan dikejutkan oleh pengumuman yang kapal terbang telah mendarat di KLIA. Jam tangan saya – jam yang biasa sahaja, bukan jam yang bernilai jutaan ringgit yang dipakai oleh Presiden UMNO/BN, Zahid Hamidi – menunjukkan waktu sudah 1 pagi.

Saya ingatkan mereka tersalah umum Lapangan Terbang Pulau Pinang sebagai KLIA dan jam tangan saya telah bermasalah.

Jadi saya terkejut apabila saya mendapati pengumuman dan jam saya kedua-duanya betul, kerana kapal terbang ini terpaksa berpatah balik ke KLIA akibat cuaca buruk di Pulau Pinang yang menyebabkan kapal terbang yang sudah tidak banyak bahan bakar ini tidak dapat mendarat.

Jadi, kami tersangkut di KLIA sehingga jam 4 pagi apabila penerbangan ini dijadualkan semula.

Ketika inilah, saya dapati yang penerbangan tersebut agak penuh, dengan rakyat Malaysia pulang dari London, Sydney, dan pelbagai tempat-tempat lain di seluruh dunia untuk mengundi dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 pada hari Sabtu, 19 November 2022.

Jelas sekali rakyat Malaysia dari seluruh dunia menyokong Anwar Ibrahim untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10 untuk menjadikan Malaysia hebat semula dengan menetapkan semula hala tuju negara – dari hala tuju sebuah negara gagal dan berpecah belah pada tahun 2060 – untuk menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang sukar dan terganggu” seperti yang dicita-citakan oleh Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman.

Malaysia boleh mencatatkan pencapaian yang lebih baik dan bukannya hanya menjadi sebuah negara yang biasa-biasa sahaja selepas enam dekad pembinaan negara – atau lebih buruk lagi, menjadi sebuah negara gagal dan berpecah belah dalam tiga ke empat dekad lagi.

Janganlah kita biarkan terjadinya satu lagi Diaspora Malaysia yang hanya akan menguntungkan negara-negara lain, kerana rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum, bahasa, agama, budaya, kawasan, atau umur, sepatutnya kekal di Malaysia dan bersama-sama menjadikan negara kita yang hebat, bukannya negara lain.

Saya menyeru kepada para pengundi di dalam dan di luar negara untuk memastikan kadar keluar mengundi dalam PRU kali ini melepasi paras 80% supaya Anwar Ibrahim dapat menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10 dan supaya kita dapat selamatkan Malaysia dari menjadi sebuah negara yang gagal, berpecah belah, dan kleptokratik dalam tiga ke empat dekad yang akan datang.

Marilah kita semua mengundi pada hari Sabtu ini, bukan sahaja untuk lima tahun yang akan datang, tetapi untuk 30 ke 40 tahun yang akan datang, demi anak-anak kita dan cucu-cucu kita supaya mereka dapat menikmati kehidupan yang lebih baik dari kita semua.

(Kenyataan media veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di KLIA pada hari Jumaat, 18 November 2022 pada jam 2 pagi)

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Ten Questions to be answered by the Malaysians voting in the 15GE today

Ten questions to be answered by the Malaysians voting in the 15th General Election today are:

Whether the voting turnout today can exceed 80%.

Whether Anwar Ibrahim will be the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Whether Pakatan Harapan on its own can form the Federal Government in Putrajaya beating the two other coalitions — UMNO/Barisan and Perikatan Nasional of Bersatu and PAS.

Whether Malaysia can be saved and worth saving.

Whether Malaysia will stop its descent from a first-rate world-class nation in the last six decades into a second-rate mediocre country today and worse still, continued descent into a third-rate failed, divided, rogue, and kleptocratic nation by Malaysia’s Centennial in four decades or whether Malaysia can reverse the fate and trajectory of a failed, divided, rogue and kleptocratic state in the next four decade and to become again a first-rate world-class plural nation.

Whether Malaysia can return to the original nation-building principles to be found in the Constitution and Rukun Negara — constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy, separation of powers, rule of law, good governance, public integrity, meritocracy, respect for human rights, and national unity from our multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-cultural diversity where there are no first-class and second-class citizens whether based on race, religion or region.

Whether UMNO can be saved and reject the Najib Razak and Zahid Hamidi’s legacy of kleptocracy and kakistocracy, and return to the original ideals and principles of UMNO as espoused the first four UMNO Presidents, Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein and Hussein Onn who all condemned corruption, abuse of public power and breach of trust of public officials.

Whether Malaysia can be one of the top 30 countries of the world in terms of having a clean and honest government and minimal corruption in public life.

Whether Malaysia can continue be way ahead of other countries, like China, Indonesia, India and Middle East countries in the annual Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) and not be overtaken by China before 2030 and by Indonesia, India and the Middle East countries by before 2040.

Whether Malaysia can succeed in creating a Bangsa Malaysia, not by eliminating ethnic or religious identities whether Malay, Chinese, Indian, Dayak, Kadazan, or Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu or Christian but by celebrating our diverse ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural identities under one large rubric of a Malaysian identity — the great diversity is an asset and strength rather than a liability of Malaysia

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Saturday, 19th November 2022)

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Malaysia is in new era of coalition politics – I advocate a coalition government of PH (82), PN (73), Borneo Bloc (35) under Anwar Ibrahim as Prime Minister to form a coalition with the specific programme to reverse Malaysia’s decline and to make Malaysia a great world-class nation and to fight corruption

(Versi BM)

Malaysia has a hung Parliament as a result of the voting in the 15th General Election yesterday.

Malaysia is in the new era of coalition politics, and I advocate a coalition government of Pakatan Harapan (82 MPs), Perikatan Nasional (73 MPs) and Borneo Bloc (35 MPs) under Anwar Ibrahim as Prime Minister to form a coalition of with the specific programme to reverse Malaysia’s decline to make Malaysia a great world-class nation and to fight corruption.

This “Make Malaysia Great Again” coalition will have 190 Members of Parliament, which is more than two-thirds of the 222 Parliamentary seats and can amend the Malaysian constitution to restore to Sarawak and Sabah their rights according to Malaysia Agreement 1963.

The UMNO-Barisan Nasional coalition has suffered its worst defeat in its history, and Zahid Hamidi should resign as UMNO/BN President and allow the UMNO/BM coalition to return to the original nation-building principles as advocated by the first four UMNO Presidents and nation’s founding fathers like Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein, Hussein Onn, Tan Cheng Lock, Tan Siew Sin, Dr. Lim Chong Eu and V.T. Sambanthan.

I had advised Mahathir Mohamad and Tengku Razaleigh to play advisory roles and not to be candidates in the 15th General Election. If they had listened, they would have avoided their ignominy yesterday.

I started my political journey 57 years ago in the days of UMNO hegemony when a crack became a national crisis.

The 15th General Election result yesterday may appear to be a disaster for Malaysia, but it should be seen as a catalyst for Malaysia to become a normal, world-class great country again.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Sunday, 20th November 2022)

Malaysia kini berada dalam era baharu politik gabungan – saya cadang kerajaan gabungan PH (82), PN (73), dan Blok Borneo (35) di bawah pimpinan Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri untuk membentuk sebuah gabungan bagi memulihkan kemerosotan Malaysia dan menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia dan untuk melawan rasuah

Malaysia mempunyai sebuah Parlimen tergantung selepas pengundian dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 semalam.

Malaysia kini berada dalam era baharu politik gabungan dan saya cadang supaya sebuah kerajaan gabungan Pakatan Harapan (82 Ahli Parlimen), Perikatan Nasional (73 Ahli Parlimen), dan Blok Borneo (35 Ahli Parlimen) di bawah pimpinan Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri untuk membentuk sebuah gabungan bagi memulihkan kemerosotan Malaysia dan menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia dan untuk melawan rasuah.

Gabungan untuk menjadikan Malaysia hebat ini akan mempunyai 190 orang Ahli Parlimen, yang melebihi dua-pertiga dari 222 kerusi Parlimen dan boleh meminda Perlembagaan Malaysia untuk mengembalikan hak-hak Sarawak dan Sabah kepada seperti yang termaktub dalam Perjanjian Malaysia 1963.

Gabungan UMNO-Barisan Nasional telah menyaksikan kekalahan terburuknya dalam sejarah dan Zahid Hamidi patut meletakkan jawatannya sebagai Presiden UMNO/BN dan memberi ruang untuk UMNO/BN untuk kembali kepada prinsip asal pembinaan negara yang dipegang oleh empat orang Presiden terawal UMNO dan tokoh-tokoh negara seperti Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein, Hussein Onn, Tan Cheng Lock, Tan Siew Sin, Dr Lim Chong Eu, dan V.T. Sambanthan.

Saya telah menasihatkan Mahathir Mohamad dan Tengku Razaleigh untuk memainkan peranan penasihat dan tidak bertanding sebagai calon dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15. Sekiranya mereka dengar nasihat saya, mereka pastinya akan dapat mengelakkan kejadian memalukan semalam.

Saya telah mulakan perjalanan politik saya 57 tahun yang lepas dalam hari-hari hegemoni UMNO, di mana keretakan kecil sudah menjadi satu krisis nasional.

Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 semalam mungkin kelihatan seperti satu bencana untuk Malaysia, tetapi ia sepatutnya dilihat sebagai pemangkin untuk Malaysia menjadi sebuah negara normal, yang hebat dan bertaraf dunia.

(Kenyataan media veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Ahad, 20 November 2022)

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Anwar Ibrahim as the leader with the biggest bloc of MPs who won the 15GE should be given the first chance to form the Federal Government in Putrajaya before others or Malaysia will not practising parliamentary democracy

(Versi BM)

Anwar Ibrahim, as the leader of the biggest bloc of Members of Parliament who won the 15th General Election, should be given the first chance to form the Federal Government in Putrajaya before others or Malaysia will not be practising parliamentary democracy.

Anwar should be given a time-frame to form the Federal Government, and if he is unable to get more than 112 MPs to support him, which is a simple majority in Parliament, only then should the Yang di Pertuan Agong ask the another candidate to try to form the Federal Government.

Malaysia has had two “backdoor” Prime Ministers and Malaysians do not want a third “backdoor” Prime Minister.

We are now in the era of coalitions politics, and we should start with a proper procedure that will not subject Malaysia to the mockery of the world.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 21st November 2022)

Anwar Ibrahim sebagai ketua blok Ahli Parlimen terbesar selepas PRU15 patut diberikan peluang pertama untuk membentuk Kerajaan Persekutuan di Putrajaya sebelum mana-mana pemimpin lain, jika tidak Malaysia tidak mengamalkan demokrasi berparlimen

Anwar Ibrahim, sebagai ketua blok Ahli Parlimen terbesar selepas Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 patut diberikan peluang pertama untuk membentuk Kerajaan Persekutuan di Putrajaya sebelum mana-mana pemimpin lain, jika tidak Malaysia tidak mengamalkan demokrasi berparlimen.

Anwar patut diberikan satu jangka masa untuk membentuk Kerajaan Persekutuan, dan sekiranya dia tidak berjaya untuk mendapatkan sokongan dari sekurang-kurangnya 112 orang Ahli Parlimen, majoriti mudah, ketika ini barulah Yang di Pertuan Agong meminta mana-mana calon yang lain pula untuk cuba membentuk Kerajaan Persekutuan.

Malaysia telah ada dua Perdana Menteri “pintu belakang” dan kita tidak mahukan Perdana Menteri “pintu belakang” yang ketiga.

Kita kini sedang berada dalam era politik gabungan dan kita patut mula dengan prosedur yang berpatutan supaya Malaysia tidak dimalukan di khalayak dunia.

(Kenyataan media veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin, 21 November 2022)

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There should be no abduction of the process of parliamentary democracy and the new era of coalition politics in Malaysia should start on the right foot to realise Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman’s hope for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light in the difficult and distracted world”

(Versi BM)

In the last 24 hours, the Malaysian Dream for Malaysia to undo the failures of nation-building the last six decades and to restore Malaysia’s place among the great nations in the world instead of becoming a second-rate mediocre country and slipping further to become a third-rate failed, divided and kleptocratic state in four decades’ time has sprung back to life.

On 19th November, 2022, the 15th General Election result was testimony that despite disappointments, Malaysians inside the country and all over the world have not given up their aspiration for Malaysia to learn from the mistakes of six decades of nation-building so that Malaysia can again become a great world-class plural nation.

But 20th November 2022 brought disappointment to many Malaysians, where there was an attempt to abduct the process of parliamentary democracy, and a coalition which did not enjoy the largest number of elected Members of Parliament tried to seize the office of the Prime Ministership.

But on 21st November 2022, Malaysians could breathe again with significant signs that the abduction of the process of parliamentary democracy may not succeed, and that Anwar Ibrahim would succeed to become the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

There should be no abduction of the process of parliamentary democracy and the new era of coalition politics in Malaysia should start on the right foot to realise Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman’s hope for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light in the difficult and distracted world”.

Malaysians achieved a “political miracle” in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 to end the seemingly invincible UMNO/BN political hegemony and kleptocratic rule in Malaysia but this “political miracle” was undone by two “backdoor” governments.

Can Malaysians achieve a second “political miracle” in the 15th General Election on November 19, 2022 and will today, November 22, 2022 go down in Malaysian history as one of the most important dates where Malaysia entered the new era of coalition politics on the right footing, fulfilled Tunku Abdul Rahman’s aspiration for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world” and restore Malaysia to be among the great world-class plural nations where there is minimal corruption, a tiger economy, world-class education standards, sustainable environment and Malaysia the show-case to the world as the confluence of four great civilisations — Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian, and Western?

Malaysians await the answer today.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 22nd November 2022)

Tidak patut ada penculikan proses demokrasi berparlimen dan era baharu politik gabungan di Malaysia patut dimulakan dengan betul untuk kita merealisasikan cita-cita Bapa Malaysia untuk Malaysia menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang sukar dan terganggu”

Dalam 24 jam yang lepas, Impian Malaysia — untuk Malaysia kita membetulkan semula kegagalan dalam enam dekad yang lepas dan mengembalikan kedudukan Malaysia untuk berada dalam kalangan negara-negara hebat dunia dan bukannya kekal menjadi sebuah negara yang biasa-biasa sahaja atau lebih buruk lagi, merosot menjadi sebuah negara gagal, berpecah belah, dan kleptokratik dalam empat yang akan datang — telah kembali segar.

Pada 19 November 2022, keputusan Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 menunjukkan walaupun terdapat kekecewaan, rakyat Malaysia di dalam negara dan dari seluruh dunia masih belum berputus asa dengan aspirasi mereka untuk melihat Malaysia belajar dari kesilapan dalam enam dekad yang lepas supaya Malaysia dapat sekali lagi menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia.

Tetapi, 20 November 2022 telah membawa kekecewaan kepada ramai rakyat Malaysia, apabila terdapat cubaan untuk menculik proses demokrasi berparlimen, di mana sebuah gabungan yang tidak mempunyai jumlah kerusi yang terbesar telah cuba untuk merampas jawatan Perdana Menteri.

Namun, pada 21 November 2022, rakyat Malaysia dapat bernafas lega sekali lagi dengan tanda-tanda jelas yang cubaan menculik proses demokrasi berparlimen ini mungkin tidak akan berjaya dan Anwar Ibrahim akan berjaya menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10.

Tidak patut ada sebarang penculikan proses demokrasi berparlimen di Malaysia dan era baharu politik gabungan di Malaysia patut dimulakan dengan betul supaya kita dapat realisasikan cita-cita Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, untuk Malaysia menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang sukar dan terganggu”.

Malaysia telah mencapai “keajaiban politik” dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 pada 9 Mei 2018 dengan menamatkan kleptokrasi dan hegemoni politik UMNO/BN yang kelihatan kebal sebelum ini, tetapi “keajaiban politik” ini telah digagalkan oleh dua kerajaan pintu belakang.

Bolehkah rakyat Malaysia mencapai “keajaiban politik” kedua dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 pada 19 November 2022, dan adakah hari ini, 22 November 2022 akan dicatat dalam sejarah Malaysia sebagai salah satu tarikh terpenting di mana Malaysia memasuki era baharu politik gabungan dengan permulaan yang tepat, memenuhi aspirasi Tunku Abdul Rahman untuk Malaysia menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang sukar dan terganggu” dan mengembalikan kedudukan Malaysia sebagai salah satu negara majmuk yang hebat di dunia, di mana terhadap rasuah yang minima, ekonomi yang kuat, standard pendidikan bertaraf dunia, alam sekitar yang mampan, dan Malaysia menjadi contoh pertemuan empat tamadun hebat — Melayu/Islam, Cina, India, dan Barat — kepada seluruh dunia?

Rakyat akan menantikan jawapannya hari ini.

(Kenyataan media veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 22 November 2022)

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Call for a “Save Malaysia Coalition” of all political coalitions and political parties to restore Malaysia as a first-rate world-class nation instead of slipping to second-rate mediocre country now after six decades and in danger of ending up as a failed, divided and kleptocratic state on Malaysia’s Centennial

(Versi BM)

I call for a “Save Malaysia Coalition” of all political coalitions and political parties to restore Malaysia as a first-rate world-class nation instead of slipping to second-rate mediocre country today after six decades and in danger of ending up as a failed, divided and kleptocratic state on Malaysia’s Centennial.

In the sacred mission to Save Malaysia to restore the nation to a first-rate world-class nation status instead of ending up as a failed, divided and kleptocratic nation on Malaysia’s Centennial, there can be no neutrality by patriotic Malaysians.

I fully agree with the Yang di Pertuan Agong that we are going through extraordinary times which call for extraordinary measures by patriotic Malaysians to Save Malaysia.

Let us think of the future of the country instead of one’s future, whether it be a political party, political coalition or one-self, which is why in the sacred task of saving Malaysia from ending up as a failed, divided and kleptocratic in another four decades, no patriotic Malaysian can be neutral.

Let’s put the future of Malaysia above everything else, including the past.

Let every patriotic Malaysian, every political coalition and every political party, inside and outside Parliament, work with one common mission and purpose – to make Malaysia great again and fulfil the aspiration of Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.

This is work not of one Prime Minister or in one general election as it must be the mission of many Prime Ministers and many general elections, as it must be the Malaysian Dream of every Malaysian for the next three to four decades.

Let us start work with this common mission under the 10th Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim.

Let us return to the original nation-building principles as advocated by the first four UMNO Presidents and nation’s founding fathers like Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein, Hussein Onn, Tan Cheng Lock, Tan Siew Sin, Dr. Lim Chong Eu and V.T. Sambanthan.

Let Malaysians surprise the world that Malaysia is capable of a second “political miracle”, not only to start the new era of coalition politics on a right footing and fulfil Tunku Abdul Rahman’s aspiration for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”, but for Malaysia to be among the great world-class nations where there is minimal corruption, a tiger economy, world-class education standards, sustainable environment and Malaysia a show-case to the world as the confluence of four great civilisations — Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian, and Western.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on Wednesday, 23rd November 2020)

Seruan untuk sebuah “Gabungan Selamatkan Malaysia” yang terdiri dari semua gabungan dan parti-parti politik untuk mengembalikan Malaysia menjadi sebuah negara bertaraf dunia dan bukannya menjadi negara biasa-biasa selepas enam dekad yang berada dalam bahaya untuk menjadi sebuah negara gagal, berpecah belah, dan kleptokratik menjelang ulang tahun ke-100 negara

Saya menyeru untuk sebuah “Gabungan Selamatkan Malaysia” yang terdiri dari semua gabungan dan parti-parti politik untuk mengembalikan Malaysia menjadi sebuah negara bertaraf dunia dan bukannya menjadi negara biasa-biasa selepas enam dekad yang berada dalam bahaya untuk menjadi sebuah negara gagal, berpecah belah, dan kleptokratik menjelang ulang tahun ke-100 negara.

Dalam usaha keramat Menyelamatkan Malaysia untuk mengembalikan Malaysia menjadi sebuah negara bertaraf dunia dan bukannya menjadi sebuah negara gagal, berpecah belah, dan kleptokratik menjelang ulang tahun ke-100 negara, tidak boleh ada pihak yang cuba untuk berkecuali.

Saya bersetuju sepenuhnya dengan Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di Pertuan Agong yang kita sedang melalui suatu zaman yang luar biasa yang memerlukan tindakan luar biasa dari rakyat Malaysia yang patriotik untuk menyelamatkan negara kita.

Marilah kita berfikir mengenai masa hadapan negara dan bukannya hanya memikirkan masa hadapan sendiri, sama ada masa hadapan parti politik, gabungan politik, atau diri sendiri, dan kerana inilah tidak boleh ada mana-mana rakyat Malaysia yang patriotik untuk mengambil sikap berkecuali dari misi keramat ini.

Marilah kita utamakan masa hadapan Malaysia berbanding dengan apa-apa perkara lain, termasuklah berbanding dengan masa lalu.

Marilah kita semua, sebagai rakyat Malaysia yang patriotik, dari semua gabungan politik dan semua parti-parti politik, di dalam dan di luar Parlimen, bekerjasama dengan satu misi dan matlamat bersama – untuk menjadikan Malaysia hebat dan memenuhi aspirasi Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, untuk Malaysia menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang sukar dan terganggu”.

Perkara ini bukanlah usaha untuk seorang Perdana Menteri atau usaha yang dapat dicapai dalam satu kitaran pilihan raya, sebaliknya perlu menjadi misi ramai Perdana Menteri yang akan datang dan menjadi tema pilihan raya yang akan datang dan ia perlulah menjadi Impian Malaysia untuk setiap rakyat Malaysia dalam tiga ke empat dekad yang akan datang.

Marilah mulakan misi bersama ini di bawah pimpinan Perdana Menteri ke-10, Anwar Ibrahim.

Marilah kita kembali kepada prinsip-prinsip asal pembinaan negara bangsa yang dipegang oleh empat orang Presiden UMNO yang terawal dan juga oleh tokoh-tokoh kemerdekaan negara seperti Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein, Hussein Onn, Tan Cheng Lock, Tan Siew Sin, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, dan V.T. Sambanthan.

Mari kita tunjukkan kepada dunia yang kita mampu untuk mencapai “keajaiban politik” sekali lagi, bukan sahaja dengan memasuki era politik gabungan dengan langkah yang tepat dan memenuhi aspirasi Tunku Abdul Rahman untuk Malaysia menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang sukar dan terganggu”, tetapi juga untuk Malaysia menjadi salah satu dari negara hebat di dunia di mana terdapat rasuah yang minima, ekonomi yang kuat, standard pendidikan bertaraf dunia, alam sekitar yang mampan, dan Malaysia disegani di seluruh dunia, sebagai tempat pertemuan empat tamadun hebat – Melayu/Islam, Cina, India, dan Barat.

(Kenyataan media veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Petaling Jaya pada hari Rabu, 23 November 2022)

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Malaysia needs a new leader who can lead the country to punch beyond its weight in world affairs but not for the wrong reason as when we became “kleptocracy at its worst” recently.

(Versi BM)

Malaysia has fallen from its expectations on the formation of Malaysia to be a first-rate great world-class nation and has become a second-rate mediocre country after six decades and in danger of becoming a third-rate failed, divided and kleptocratic state on Malaysia Centennial in another four decades.

Malaysia needs a new leader who can lead the country to punch beyond its weight in world affairs but not for the wrong reason, as when we became “kleptocracy at its worst” recently.

Leaders who had been associated with Malaysia’s decline from a first-rate great world-class nation to a second-rate mediocre country for one or two decades should yield place to a new leader with a new vision and commitment to make Malaysia great again.

This is why Anwar Ibrahim is better than others to be the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia, for the 15th General Election has proved to be the most important and critical general election in Malaysian history as it was the watershed to determine whether Malaysia can become great again in various fields of human endeavour or is to continue in national decline.

Apart from heading the biggest political coalition with the most Members of Parliament elected and winning the biggest electorate with 5.8 million votes, Anwar Ibrahim has the vision and commitment for Malaysia, ranked No. 45 for countries in population size, to once again to punch beyond its weight in world affairs.

(Media statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Thursday, 24th November 2020)

Malaysia memerlukan seorang pemimpin baharu yang boleh memimpin negara kita ke arah menjadi lebih tersohor di mata dunia, bukan seperti apa yang berlaku apabila kita dikenali sebagai “kleptokrasi dalam bentuk yang terburuk” baru-baru ini

Malaysia telah ketinggalan di belakang jangkaan kita semasa pembentukan Malaysia, daripada untuk menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia kepada menjadi sebuah negara yang biasa-biasa sahaja selepas enam dekad, dan kini berada dalam bahaya untuk menjadi negara gagal, berpecah belah, dan kleptokratik menjelang ulang tahun ke-100 negara dalam empat dekad dari sekarang.

Malaysia memerlukan seorang pemimpin baharu yang boleh memimpin negara kita ke arah menjadi lebih tersohor di mata dunia, bukan seperti apa yang berlaku apabila kita dikenali sebagai “kleptokrasi dalam bentuk yang terburuk” baru-baru ini.

Pemimpin yang pernah terkait dengan kemunduran Malaysia dari sebuah negara yang bertaraf dunia kepada sebuah negara biasa dalam sedekad atau dua patut memberikan laluan kepada barisan pimpinan baharu yang mempunyai visi dan komitmen untuk menjadikan Malaysia hebat.

Kerana inilah Anwar Ibrahim adalah pemimpin yang lebih baik berbanding dengan calon-calon Perdana Menteri ke-10 yang lain, kerana Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 telah terbukti menjadi pilihan raya umum yang paling penting dan kritikal dalam sejarah Malaysia kerana ia bakal menentukan sama ada Malaysia boleh mencapai kehebatan dalam pelbagai bidang yang diceburi manusia atau sama ada kita terus mundur ke belakang.

Selain daripada mengetuai gabungan politik dengan jumlah Ahli Parlimen yang paling ramai, dengan sokongan pengundi tertinggi sebanyak 5.8 juta undi, Anwar Ibrahim mempunyai visi dan komitmen untuk Malaysia – yang berada di tempat ke-45 di dunia dari segi saiz populasi – untuk sekali lagi mencipta sejarah di persada dunia.

(Kenyataan media veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Khamis, 24 November 2022)

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DAP’s 24-year commitment to back Anwar all the way to bring about a Better Malaysia

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When the Yang di Pertuan Agong consented to appoint Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia, I texted him my congratulations.

Anwar phoned to thank me and I took the opportunity to tell him that his task as the 10th Prime Minister is to make Malaysia great again.

The DAP’s 24-year commitment to back Anwar all the way to bring about a Better Malaysia went back to Sept. 2, 1998 when Anwar was sacked from the Cabinet and started his Reformasi campaign.

I phoned Anwar to ask whether there was any basis to the various allegations levelled against him and when he denied, I told him that DAP would back him all the way to bring about a Malaysia where there is maturing democracy, freedom, respect for human rights, public integrity, meritocracy, end to the various injustices and inequalities in the country, economic prowess, educational excellence and the flowering of the various languages, religions and cultures in Malaysia based on the nation-building principles embedded in the Malaysian Constitution and Rukun Negara of the Malay Rulers as the basis of the system of constitutional monarchy in Malaysia, Malay as the official language, Islam as the official religion and the special provision in the Constitution to eradicate poverty and backwardness.

It has been a long 24 years. Through it all, despite the pain, sufferings and sacrifices which included two terms of imprisonment and a 22-month wait for the passing of the premiership, Anwar did not bow down to adversity and oppression and the DAP had stood firm by its commitment made in September 1998.

Malaysia needs a new leader who can lead the country to punch beyond its weight in world affairs but not for the wrong reason, as when we became “kleptocracy at its worst” recently.

Malaysia has fallen from its expectations on the formation of Malaysia to be a first-rate great world-class nation and has become a second-rate mediocre country after six decades and in danger of becoming a third-rate failed, divided and kleptocratic state on Malaysia Centennial in another four decades.

Anwar’s tasks have just started, to unite a very polarised and divided nation, based on race and religion, and from kleptocracy to rise like the Phoenix to become one of top countries in the world in the fight against corruption and abuses of power.

Anwar deserves the support of all Malaysians to make Malaysia great again and punch beyond its weight in world affairs.

(Media Statement by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on Friday, 25th November 2022)

Komitmen DAP penuh selama 24 tahun untuk menyokong Anwar bakal membawa Malaysia yang lebih baik

Semasa Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di Pertuan Agong memberi perkenan untuk melantik Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia ke-10, saya telah menghantar mesej kepada Anwar untuk mengucapkan tahniah kepadanya.

Anwar menelefon saya untuk mengucapkan terima kasih dan saya mengambil peluang untuk memberitahunya yang tanggungjawabnya sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke-10 adalah untuk menjadikan Malaysia hebat semula.

Komitmen penuh DAP untuk menyokong Anwar ini adalah sejak 24 tahun sejak daripada 2 September 1988 — ketika mana Anwar dipecat dari Kabinet dan memulakan kempen reformasinya — untuk membawa perubahan demi sebuah Malaysia yang lebih baik.

Saya telah menelefon Anwar ketika itu untuk bertanya sama ada terdapat sebarang asas untuk tuduhan-tuduhan terhadapnya itu dan apabila dia nafikan, saya maklumkan yang DAP akan menyokong Anwar sepenuhnya untuk membina sebuah Malaysia yang mempunyai demokrasi yang matang, kebebasan, hormat terhadap hak asasi manusia, integriti awam, meritokrasi, penghapusan pelbagai bentuk kezaliman dan ketidakadilan yang ada dalam negara, kekuatan ekonomi, kecemerlangan dalam pendidikan, dan kesuburan kepelbagaian bahasa, agama, dan budaya yang berasaskan kepada prinsip-prinsip pembinaan negara yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan dan Rukun Negara — Raja-Raja Melayu sebagai teras sistem raja berperlembagaan, Bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa kebangsaan, Islam sebagai agama rasmi, dan peruntukan khas dalam Perlembagaan untuk menghapuskan kemiskinan dan kemunduran.

24 tahun yang lepas merupakan satu tempoh yang amat panjang. Walaupun dengan pelbagai cabaran, kesengsaraan, dan pengorbanan, termasuklah selepas dipenjarakan dua kali dan penantian selama 22 bulan untuk memegang amanah rakyat, Anwar tidak pernah tunduk dengan cabaran dan penindasan yang dihadapinya, dan DAP terus berpegang teguh terhadap komitmen yang dibuat pada September 1998.

Malaysia memerlukan seorang pemimpin baharu yang mampu untuk memimpin negara kita untuk menjadi terkenal di seluruh dunia — untuk perkara yang baik, bukan seperti mana ketika terkenal sebagai sebuah “kleptokrasi dalam bentuk yang terburuk” sebelum ini.

Negara kita telah tertinggal di belakang, dari cita-cita asalnya untuk menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia, sebaliknya menjadi hanya sebuah negara pertengahan yang biasa sahaja selepas enam dekad, dan kini berada dalam ancaman untuk menjadi sebuah negara gagal, berpecah belah, dan kleptokratik menjelang ulang tahun ke-100 negara dalam empat dekad yang akan datang.

Tugas Anwar baru sahaja bermula, untuk menyatukan sebuah negara yang terpisah yang diancam polarisasi masyarakat berasaskan kaum dan agama, untuk membangkitkan Malaysia dari sebuah kleptokrasi kepada salah satu negara yang terbaik dari segi perang melawan rasuah dan salah guna kuasa.

Anwar layak menerima sokongan semua rakyat Malaysia untuk menjadikan negara kita hebat dan tersohor di persada dunia.

(Kenyataan media veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang di Petaling Jaya pada hari Jumaat, 25 November 2022)

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