"Calon-calon Pakatan Rakyat dan BN tidak mempunyai banyak pengalaman, dan saya sebagai veteran di sana, jadi saya fikir saya lebih baik berbanding mereka," katanya dalam sidang akhbar di Petaling Jaya.
Beliau juga berkata, KITA akan mengumumkan senarai calonnya bagi pilihan raya umum akan datang lewat bulan ini. Katanya, KITA tidak akan dibubarkan setelah krisis dalaman parti itu di Kedah dan Pulau Pinang diselesaikan. - malaysiakini
PAS akan lawan Zaid di Kota Baru
PAS akan meletakkan calon melawan Presiden Parti Kesejahteraan Insan Tanah Air (Kita), Datuk Zaid Ibrahim di Kota Baru dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang. Bekas Pengarah Pilihan Raya PAS, Datuk Abdul Halim Abdul Rahman berkata, menjadi hak Zaid bertanding di parlimen tersebut.
“Baguslah dia nak bertanding atas tiket Kita dan PAS tidak boleh sekat hak beliau. Saya tidak tahu pengaruh Zaid di Kota Baru.
“Tetapi PAS akan letak calon lawan dia,” kata Abdul Halim.
Ahli Parlimen Pengkalan Chepa itu, PAS tidak akan membenarkan Zaid bertanding atas tiket PAS dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang. Katanya, ketika ini tidak ada keputusan hendak membenarkan Zaid bertanding atas tiket PAS.
“Mustahil untuk menyuruh Zaid bertanding atas tiket PAS waktu ini,” katanya.
Sebelum ini tersebar desas desus, Zaid akan bertanding atas tiket PAS di parlimen Kota Baru.
Zaid hari ini mengumumkan akan bertanding di parlimen Kota Baru dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang. Tokoh politik kontroversi itu pernah menjadi ahli parlimen kawasan berkenaan dari tahun 2004 hingga 2008 semasa menjadi ketua Umno bahagian Kota Baru.
Zaid dipecat dari Umno
Bagaimanapun, beliau tidak bertanding pada 2008 tetapi dilantik Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri oleh Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi atas kapasiti senator.
Beliau dipecat dari parti pada Disember tahun sama kerana mengkritik penggunaan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA). Zaid kemudiannya menyertai PKR tetapi membuat keputusan meninggalkan parti itu ketika mencabar Azmin Ali bagai jawatan Timbalan Presiden kerana mendakwa pertandingan yang tidak adil. Beliau mengamblalih Kita pada akhir 2011.
Umno Kota Baru pula berkata peluang menang di parlimen itu sebagai `sangat mustahil.’
AJK Che Mansor Adabi Che Hassan berkata, orang Kota Baru memilih parti yang besar serta kukuh dan bukan yang setahun jagung.
“Kalau Zaid bertanding atas tiket bebas atau Kita, payah nak menang kerana orang Kota Baru nak parti kuat.
“Zaid menang dulu kerana bertanding atas tiket Umno,” kata beliau lagi.
Zaid dinasihat bersara
Sementara itu, Zamil Ibrahim yang mendakwa sebagai ketua baru Kita berkata, beliau tidak mengesahkan Zaid bertanding di bawah parti itu.
Sebaliknya, bekas pengerusi Kita Kedah itu menasihatkan Zaid bersara
dari politik keranahanya memakai topeng liberal/demokratik tetapi
melakukan sebaliknya.
Dalam kenyataan melalui SMS hari ini, Zamil meminta ahli parti seluruh negara bertenang.
Zamil yang dipecat awal bulan lalu menegaskan Zaid semasa menerajui
parti telah menunjukkan keegoannya dan hanya memikirkan diri sendiri.
Beliau meminta rakyat sedar tentang rekod Zaid yang menurutnya asyik putar belit dan tidak konsisten.
“Umno, PKR dan Kita sudah sedar dengan permainan politik peribadinya dan minta semua parti yang ingin membuat tawaran supaya tidak membuat tawaran,” katanya lagi.
Zamil mendakwa beliau dipilih sebagai ketua Kita yang baru dalam mesyuarat tergempar dua minggu lalu dan sedang menunggu pengesahan Pendaftar Pertubuhan. - FMT
Zaid to contest Kota Bharu seat under Kita banner
In another surprising move, Parti Kita head Zaid Ibrahim has announced that the party will not be dissolved after all, and that he will contest the Kota Bharu parliamentary seat under its banner in the general election.
“The
candidates of Pakatan and BN don’t have much experience, and I am the
veteran there, so I think I am better compared to the two (coalitions),”
Zaid (left) told a press conference in Petaling Jaya today.Refuting media reports which claimed that he would join PAS, Zaid said Parti Kita is more progressive than the Islamic party.
And while it is an opposition party, it does not share Pakatan Rakyat’s stand on some issues, said the former Kota Bharu MP.
“ ...we are independent and we are contesting based on that... I am contesting, so that I can explain our policies to the people...
“We have a chance to win and I have a chance to win in Kota Bharu, no matter (who) my opponent is - (whether from) PAS or UMNO.”
He said the party will reveal its list of candidates later this month.
Zaid also said Parti Kita will not be dissolved, having resolved its crisis in Kedah and Penang.
As it has also responded to the show-cause letter issued by Registrar of Societies, Zaid said he is confident this will bring the matter to a close.
“I never said I wanted to dissolve the party, I only said Kita had many problems and if the members don't like my leadership, we may dissolve the party.
“But after that, we had meetings and decided that we just needed to sack (certain people) to resolve the problems and we (would not) have to dissolve the party.”
‘Mistake to take in Zamil, Tee Beng’
He skirted the question as to whether Parti Kita can gain the confidence of the people, and claimed that it is operating well after sacking members in Kedah and Penang.
Referring to Zamil Ibrahim (right)
and Tan Tee Beng, who had headed Parti Kita in Kedah and Penang
respectively, he said: “It was a mistake to take them in but since we
have removed them, no more mistakes now.”Last month, Zaid had announced that the party would be dissolved
through an extraordinary general meeting, saying this was necessary "to remove any and all doubts that we indeed do support the opposition".
Leaders in several states, including Kedah and Penang, had disputed the decision.
The party, which turned one in January, was formed after Zaid left PKR in the wake of alleged irregularities in the party polls. He was previously an Umno member.
‘Najib should debate with Anwar’
Meanwhile, when asked about the proposal from former finance minister Daim Zainuddin that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak should let go of his finance minister portfolio , Zaid agreed that it is a good idea but questioned why Daim had not raised this when he was in the government.
“Daim did not make any noise last time, he should have said this before,” he said.
In a recent interview with print media, Daim also gave a thumbs-up to Najib’s performance compared to Anwar, whom he said has been grandstanding but has achieved nothing.
However, Zaid said both leaders have their own strengths and it would be better to let the rakyat judge through a debate.
“Debate is a good thing, I am surprised that Najib does not want a debate,” he said, adding that he himself would also like a debate with Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on whichever topic that the latter wanted.- malaysiakini
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