Sabahan or Sarawakian can be the PM, says Kit Siang
Published on: Monday, March 30, 2015
Kota Kinabalu: A Sabahan or Sarawakian can be the Prime Minister of Malaysia in the proposed post-Barisan Nasional, post-Pakatan Rakyat new coalition before the 14th General Election, said DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang.Speaking to reporters at Shangrila Hotel in Bandaran Berjaya here Sunday, the MP for Gelang Patah said the possible candidates include Datuk Anifah Aman, Datuk Rosnah Rashid Shirlin, Datuk Abdul Ghapur Salleh from Sabah and Datuk Fadillah Yusuf, Nancy Shukri and Datuk Rohaini Abdul Karim from Sarawak."There are two political coalitions in the country – the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) which won 53 per cent of the national vote in the 13th general election in May 2013 but denied the opportunity to form the Federal Government in Putrajaya and the Barisan Nasional (BN), the first minority Federal Government in Malaysia but won 60 per cent of the parliamentary seats," he said.
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He claimed both political coalitions suffered grave and unprecedented damage this month because of the latest political game played by Umno conspirators exactly one year ago, when Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom told Parliament on March 27 last year that the Federal Government was ready to work with PAS Kelantan state government to implement hudud in Kelantan.This has resulted in the Kelantan State Assembly re-enacting the 1993 Kelantan Syariah Criminal Code 1993 with amendments on March 19 (with the support of Umno Kelantan state assemblymen) and the March 18 private member's bill by the PAS President and MP for Marang, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang, on hudud implementation.This had caused enormous damage to Pakatan Rakyat as Hadi's private member's bill was a multiple violation of both the spirit and letter of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition – violating the PR Common Policy Framework which committed all PR parties to defend the fundamental principles of the Malaysian Constitution.It was also against the consensus principle as the PR Leadership Council at its meeting on Feb 8 decided unanimously that proposed amendments to the 1993 Kelantan Syariah Criminal Code and any private member's bill in Parliament should first be brought up to the PR Leadership Council for discussion.
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"Neither of the two PAS commitments, made in the presence of the PAS president, was honoured. "In fact, up to now, after a passage of 11 days, DAP and PKR MPs have not even been shown a copy of Hadi's proposed private member's bill," he said.
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"The Prime Minister was expected to issue a statement on the matter on March 20 but he is still suffering 'labour pains" to produce such a statement," he said.Nonetheless, he said since both BN and Pakatan had suffered damages to their fundamental principles he had proposed to Malaysians to think the unthinkable."That is for MPs from both sides of the BN and PR political divide as well as both sides of the South China Sea to take a stand to 'Save Malaysia' to defend constitutionalism by coming together in a new coalition before the 14th General Election."If such a new coalition gets the support of the majority of the 222 Members of Parliament, then there will be a new Prime Minister, and clearly it will not be Najib," he said."The new PM can be from Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak or Sabah, can be a man or a woman, but he or she must be one who is committed to defend the bedrock constitutional principles like the first five Prime Ministers of Malaysia," he said.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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