As a result, Malaysians have benefited tremendously from the vibrant competition between Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat. As Pakatan Rakyat advocates “Ketuanan Rakyat” and values like competence, accountability and transparency, Barisan Nasional under Prime Minister Najib Razak has responded with his ‘1Malaysia’ campaign and “Government Transformation Programme”. In brief, Malaysians are enjoying the bonus of democratisation.
Unfortunately, the budding democratisation is also threatened by some politicians from both sides of the divides who refuse to accept “democracy as the only game in town” and try to subvert or undermine the voters’ verdict through some or all of these four unscrupulous means:
(a) defection and change of government without fresh elections;
(b) politically-motivated investigation, prosecution, harassment and detention of opposition leaders, civil society activists, journalists and bloggers;
(c) discrimination in development funding against opposition-run state governments and opposition-won constituencies; (d) media campaign to play up ethno-religious sentiments and to delegitimize the opposition.
These undemocratic acts disrupt our public life and threaten political stability. The latest defection and quitting of PKR lawmakers are both a betrayal to their voters and an assault to Malaysia’s party system. Malaysia would be in total chaos and may witness coups if popular mandate can be ignored and violated at whim.
Six basic reforms
On the second anniversary of the March 8 election, we the undersigned civil society groups call upon all political parties to respect the voters’ verdict and demand for competitive politics made on this date two years ago. We urge them to promise the following six basic reforms in their present or future capacity as federal and state governments.
1. That Article 48(6) of the Federal Constitution and similar provisions in state constitutions be amended to allow elected representatives resign and re-contest when they disagree with their party.
2. That ‘recall elections’ be introduced so that voters may sack elected representatives who under-perform or betray their mandate.
3. That the federal government respects the spirit of federalism and treats all state governments and members of parliament without discrimination regardless of party affiliation in term of grants, subsidies, royalties, allowance, support etc.
4. That the state governments treat all state assemblypersons without discrimination regardless of party affiliation in terms of allowance and support;
5. That the federal government and the state governments amend the Federal Constitution and all the related laws to facilitate the conduct of local government elections so that all parties may have the opportunity to win representation in local governments.
6. That all anti-human rights legislations be repealed and all politically-motivated investigation and prosecution be stopped immediately.
We also call upon all Malaysians to pursue these demands with both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat. We call upon all eligible Malaysians who have not registered as voters to do so immediately.
We must defend the fruits of March 8 and defeat all attempts to roll back the democratisation process. Come the next election, let us cast our votes based on the coalitions’ fulfilment of or commitments to these demands.
Let us reclaim our country and make democracy the only game in town.
Why?
He have forgotten the number of non malay and non muslims who voted for him as illustrated in the chart below:
This is another moron who have betrayed the trust of the Voters, especially the non muslims.
Maverick party leader Zulkifli Noordin today walked out of the PKR disciplinary board meeting in protest of the presence of non-Muslims on the panel.
Zulkifli said that the panel should be all Muslim because one of the charges he faced is related to the ‘Allah’ issue.
His demand for an all-Muslim panel was rejected by the panel members. He subsequently walked out of the meeting.
According to him, the panel was made up of one Muslim, two Christians and one Hindu.
The panel members had apparently told him that they cannot replace themselves with others because the power to appoint the panel lies with the party supreme council.
Hence Zulkifli called on the supreme council to appoint a new panel before next Tuesday.
He said if the party rejects his demand, “I would have to resign.”
Zulikifli claimed two Chinese members on the panel were Christian activists.
“How can I get justice if the panel is not all-Muslim? Justice should not only be done, it should be seen to be done.”
He stressed that while he respects the non-Muslims sitting on the panel, justice demands that the accused be tried by his peers, in this case Muslims.
Zulkifli charged that should the hearing continue and his objection dismissed, then PKR is a party which does not respect Islam and Muslims.
“I call on the party leadership to dissolve the disciplinary board.”
‘Don’t play with my religion’
Zulkifli said he had earlier sent three letters to the board stating his objection to the presence of non-Muslims on the board, but he did not receive a reply until today.
He stressed that the only issue that will force him to quit the party is religion.
“Don’t play with my religion, I will not compromise.”
Asked whether he is still loyal to the party, Zulkifli said that he would be giving the party a chance to set up a new disciplinary board. “This means that I still have faith in the party.”
Zulkifli said that he will exhaust all party channels in seeking justice before making a decision on whether to follow three of his parliamentary colleagues to quit PKR.
The disciplinary board is meeting to determine the fate of the errant Kulim Bandar Baru parliamentarian.
Zulkifli had arrived at the PKR headquarters in Kuala Lumpur 30 minutes earlier on a Modenas motorbike wearing his trademark white ‘kopiah’ and white shirt.
PKR disciplinary board had on Monday postponed its hearing of the case against Zulkifli in order to consider a number of objections raised by the errant party leader.
Zulkifli had raised eight objections, among them, that PKR practises double standards because party colleagues Wee Choo Keong and Zaid Ibrahim were not hauled up by the disciplinary board.
The supporters are just tired of this man.
Just sack him for goodness sake!
With RM17 million in the pocket? And so they think it is arm twisting time? Or they think William Mawan is the stumbling block to the smooth execution of Sime Darby’s Proposed Oil Palm Plantation in Julau?
Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) will halt merger talks with Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) if the latter does not reverse its decision to exclude five SPDP elected representatives from future negotiations.
“The SPDP merger committee must include the five because I do not want to be accused of dividing the Dayaks,” PRS president Datuk Dr James Masing told The Star yesterday.
The five are SPDP senior vice-president Datuk Peter Nansian, Mas Gading MP Datuk Dr Tiki Lafe, Marudi assemblyman Sylvester Entri, Batu Danau assemblyman Paulus Gumbang and Bekenu assemblyman Rosey Yunus.
They had openly pushed for merger talks with PRS without the SPDP’s sanction.
Dr Masing, who is state Land Development Minister, said PRS also wanted “one or two characters” who played a prominent role behind the negotiations to be excluded from the SPDP side.
“These are our two conditions for any further merger talks. If SPDP cannot fulfil the conditions, do not come to us,” he said, adding that he was not interested in the SPDP’s internal affairs.
Dr Masing was asked if PRS would hold merger talks with the reconstituted eight-man SPDP merger committee.
The SPDP supreme council meeting on Sunday dropped Nansian, state Assistant Minister for Environment and Public Health, and Entri, former SPDP secretary-general and state Assistant Minister for Public Utilities, from the merger committee.
It appointed several new faces to the enlarged panel headed by deputy party president Datuk Peter Nyarok.
The SPDP supreme council made it clear that only the Nyarok-led merger committee had the authority to hold negotiations with PRS, and that any previous discussions by SPDP leaders must be reported to the reconstituted panel.
Trouble brewed in the SPDP leadership after president Datuk William Mawan Ikom dropped Entri as the party’s secretary-general following the party election last December.
The leadership crisis seemingly worsened after the disgruntled group of five stayed away from last Sunday’s supreme council meeting.
Most of us Peninsular folks are oblivious to Sarawak, and East Malaysian politics. In fact, the not-so-amiable truth is most of us in the west side of the woods don’t give much concern about the state of affairs in the Eastern half of the country. But to be fair, the same attitude is apparent among Sarawakians and Sabahans towards us Peninsular Malaysians. On that note, I think this is the issue that should have been the main raison d’être to Najib’s 1Malaysia and why Najib was in Sarawak recently.
When it comes to this incohesive attitudes between the Peninsular dwellers and our Bornean counterparts towards each other I, too, am guilty as charged. Fortunately, I have more than a few Sarawakian friends who were more than happy to divulge their personal thoughts and overview on the political scenario in their home state, and from what they tell me, it’s a whole different ballgame out there.
Read more at – MalaysianDigest
State Assemblywoman for Pending, Violet Yong said she received a few request from residents of Lorong Bukit Nanas, Rantau Panjang, B section to see for herself the deplorable state they were living in.
The families there complained that they have been staying there for years, a number of them over 40 to 50 years while some even for 70 years but till now, they were deprieved of water supply facilities and proper roads.
Yong said it was amazing that for over a few decades, this group of people was living in the area without proper basic facilities. She said the people had been upset that again and again, they voted for SUPP when promises were made before the election to give them water supply and repaired their roads. “After the election, the winning candidate never get back to them. Still they did not give up hope until the last state election when there was no sign of Padawan council chairman,” she said.
Yong said the roads were full of potholes and the tar-sealed roads which was done anyhow lost its tar and turned the roads into gravel roads.
She said she was amazed that Tan who is the Chairman of the council did not use his influence to have the roads repaired as it was still under Batu Kawa constituency. “Afterall, it was to improve the living standard of the people and to bring some development to the area,” she said.
The residents there were also angry with Tan’s hard work which they claimed that he was only good in ‘cutting ribbons’ at dinner functions. That was why they were forced to get someone out of their constituency to help them.
Yong said she would write to Tan and the Waterboard to see how they could assist the residents. She said since Sentosa was taken over by DAP, there had been a lot of improvement done on the roads and drains and there was someone to help service the people who wanted to complain on issues.
KUCHING: The disgruntled group of five elected representatives from Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP), who walked out of last month’s supreme council meeting, is seeking an “immediate merger” with Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS).
Senior vice-president and Tasik Biru assemblyman Datuk Peter Nansian Ngusie who took the role of group spokesman, in a press conference held yesterday, declared that they are not joining PRS en bloc as earlier speculated but will “merge earlier” with PRS.
“Our group wants to merge earlier with PRS. The rest (from SPDP) can join later,” Nansian said at the press conference which was held at SPDP’s previous headquarters at Batu Kawa MJC New Township here.
If it is frogging what is it?
This comes 3 days after Peter Nansian was reported as still with SPDP.
But than we are no fools and we know since the last election you can not be trusted.
With Wan Judat in the same boat, this chart from James Masing’s Ministry perhaps tells where you guys are coming from and the agenda that comes with it.
Notice Sylvester Entri’s name as the Assistant Minister?
This logo may perhaps ring a bell.
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