Nothing to gloat about, says Kit Siang

By FMT Staff

PETALING JAYA: The Barisan Nasional may have won the Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-election but there is nothing to gloat, says DAP leader Lim Kit Siang.

He said the BN's 1,725-vote majority is a pyrrhic victory for Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak. “It is so devastatingly costly both in political and monetary terms that the (win) has laid the seeds for the forthcoming defeat of the BN,” he said in his blogsite.

In yesterday's election, BN managed to reclaim the seat when its candidate P Kamalanathan defeated PKR's Zaid Ibrahim.
Kamalanathan garnered 24,997 votes while Zaid polled 23,272.

Lim claimed that the BN had spent about RM60 million for various infrastructure projects and easily more than RM40 million for its campaigners.

DAP kepada MCA: Tarik diri dari kempen!

Naib Setiausaha Penerangan DAP, Teo Nie Ching meminta agar MCA memberi penjelasan - Mengapa menyokong Zaid Ibrahim untuk memansuhkan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) pada seketika dahulu, tetapi kini pula berhempas pulas untuk menyingkirkan suara hati dalam arena politik ini?

Pada 12 September 2008, ketika Teresa Kok (EXCO Senior Selangor), Raja Petra Kamaruddin (blogger) dan Tan Hoon Cheng (wartawan Sin Chew Daily) ditangkap di bawah ISA, pimpinan MCA ketika itu seperti Chua Soi Lek (kini Presiden), Donald Lim Siang Chai (kini Naib Presiden), Gan Peng Sieu (kini Naib Presiden) telah tampil ke depan, dan dengan lantangnya bersuara untuk keadilan, menyatakan sokongan kepada pendirian Zaid Ibrahim untuk memansuhkan ISA.

Menurut laporan media, tiga orang pemimpin ini menyatakan pendirian untuk berganding bahu bersama Zaid Ibrahim pada 16 September 2008:

"Keadilan itu melewati kepartian, penahanan tanpa bicara adalah tidak adil, BN harus mengarahkan agar ISA dimansuhkan." (Blog peribadi Chua Soi Lek pada 16 September 2008)

"Saya menggesa agar kerajaan mengkaji dan memansuhkan ISA dengan segera, malah saya menyokong dan memuji pendirian Menteri Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Zaid Ibrahim, iaitu menggesa agar kerajaan membebaskan Teresa Kok dan Raja Petra Kamaruddin, dan menggunakan saluran perundangan yang lain untuk menyelesaikan kes ini.  (Donald Lim, laporan Malaysiakini, 16 September 2008)

"Pemuda MCA akan menyokong sepenuhnya pendirian Zaid Ibrahim dalam isu ISA, malah menyeru agar pihak berkenaan mengkaji semua undang-undang preemption." (Gan Peng Sieu, laporan Sinchew Daily, 16 September 2008)

Teo Nie Ching (ganbar kiri) menggesa agar pemimpin MCA memberi penjelasan dalam tempoh 48 jam - Mengapa mereka menyokong sepenuhnya Zaid Ibrahim pada ketika itu, namun kini pula mengerah tenaga ahli MCA di Hulu Selangor, untuk menyokong calon MIC yang mengangguk kepada ISA, dan bermusuhan dengan Zaid Ibrahim?

Teo Nie Ching menegaskan, seandainya Chua Soi Lek, Donald Lim dan Gan Ping Sieu gagal memberi penjelasan dalam masa 48 jam, maka MCA seharusnya menarik diri tanpa syarat dari kempen untuk BN, keluar dari Hulu Selangor, untuk membuktikan bahawa pendirian MCA dalam pemansuhan ISA dan sokongan terhadap Zaid Ibrahim berkekalan!

*Teo Nie Ching ialah Naib Setiausaha Penerangan DAP merangkap ahli parlimen Serdang.  Diterjemah dari kenyataan asal dalam bahasa Cina.

DAP wants EC to explain ‘phantom voters’

KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 — The DAP wants the Election Commission (EC) to explain the existence of “phantom voters” in several states in Malaysia, based on alleged inaccuracies in a report released by the commission.

DAP secretary-general, Lim Guan Eng (left), told reporters in Parliament that a report released by the EC on Feb 25, 2010 showed strong evidence to support DAP’s claims.

“In Terengganu, for example, the number of Indian voters under the National Registration Department are 1,441. But the number of Indian voters registered under the EC are 1,600.

“This means that there are 159 more Indian voters than recorded by the EC... these are phantom voters,” said Lim, who was flanked by fellow DAP colleagues Tony Pua, Anthony Loke and Charles Santiago.

He asserted that there was an urgent need for the introduction of an automatic voter registration process as a solution, in order to eliminate such incidents.

“Where did the extra voters come from? When records in the National Registration department do not even show that they exist.”

“There is a need for automatic registration, so we need to go through proses pendaftaran,” said Lim.

Other examples of discrepancies were also pointed out. One instance was in Sabah, where the number of Malay voters registered under the National Registry department was 115,349. The said amount failed to tally with the EC’s figure— 177,864.

“The figures show that the people registered as voters exceed the people who live there. Why is there no action taken? The EC is not independent, not fulfilling its duty,” added Lim.

The matter was raised in Parliament last week by Rasa MP, Anthony Loke, but no answer has yet been given.

“The issue of updating the numbers because of deaths does not arise because there is an update done every three months. This is not an excuse,” said Loke, in criticising the inconsistencies.

Sidang DUN Perak adalah Sidang Polis – V. Sivakumar

- Umno/BN Perak Membisukan ADUN Pakatan, Memekakkan Telinga Sendiri dan Membutakan Mata Seluruh Rakyat.

Chukai, KEMAMAN – Speaker Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Perak yang sah, V Sivakumar menyifatkan siding DUN yang berlangsung dinegeri Perak baru-baru ini bukan sidang ahli-ahli yang berhormat, tetapi adalah suatu sidang polis.

(Gambar - Sivakumar yang juga ADUN DAP bagi kerusi DUN Tronoh, menunjukkan buku 'perintah tetap' yang dibawa bersamanya, kepada semua hadirin)

Beliau berkata demikian kerana katanya, kerajaan Umno/BN Perak sekali lagi telah membawa masuk beratus-ratus orang polis ke dalam dewan yang mulia itu.

Selain itu, beliau mendedahkan, bagaimana kerajaan Umno/BN Perak telah membisukan ADUN-ADUN Pakatan Rakyat, memekakkan telinga mereka sendiri dan membutakan seluruh rakyat dalam Negara ini.

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