Will Mahathir propose Chua Soi Lek as UMNO President...

Welcoming what he called “a good move” by PAS to consider appointing a non-Muslim to its top leadership, former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad sarcastically said DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang should made the Islamic party’s president.

“Why just deputy? They should have a non-Muslim as president. Lim Kit Siang can be PAS president,” sniped Mahathir at a press conference in Putrajaya today.

“They said we are kafir for working with non-Muslims, now they want to have a non-Muslim as party leader. That’s good, good.”

Mahathir said PAS should not have any trouble accepting a non-Muslim as president, given its defence of non-Muslim Pakatan Rakyat leaders who have quoted Quranic verses in their political ceramah.

(Dalam mengalu-alukan apa yang beliau anggap langkah yang baik dari PAS untuk melantik pemimpin bukan Islam bagi menerajui parti itu, mantan Perdana Menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad mencadangkan supaya pemimpin supremo DAP Lim Kit Siang dilantik sebagai  presiden PAS.

"Mengapa hanya timbalan, mereka sepatutnya lantik bukan Islam sebagai presiden. Lim Kit Siang boleh jadi presiden PAS," sindir Mahathir pada sidang akhbar selepas menerima kunjungan rombongan Majlis Bekas Wakil Rakyat Malaysia (MUBARAK) di Yayasan Kepimpinan Perdana di Putrajaya hari ini.

"Mereka tuduh kita kafir kerana bekerjasama dengan bukan Islam, sekarang mahu lantik bukan Islam sebagai pemimpin parti. Itu baik, baik," sindir beliau.) - malaysiakini

Here's YB Lim Kit Siang's reply...

 It has been suggested that the response to Tun Dr. Mahathir's “tongue-in-cheek” proposal that I be made PAS President is to ask whether Mahathir would propose Datuk Seri Chua Soi Lek as UMNO President! 

However, I think it is more productive to focus on Mahathir's other “tongue-in-cheek” statement that all the Tuns and “their sons and grandsons too” should all be investigated in response to my call for a full audit and accounting into the RM100 billion losses from the financial scandals during Mahathir's 22-year premiership.

Another bad news about Malaysian Airlines recording a whopping net loss of RM2.52 billion for 2011 despite round-after-round of billion-ringgit bailouts in the past two decades is a salutary reminder that the root cause why the once national premier airline is reduced to such a parlous crisis stage today must be traced to Mahathir's 1994 decision to use Bank Negara's MAS shares to bail out Bank Negara from its RM30 billion foreign exchange losses.

Malaysians today are still paying for those financial scandals, none of which have ever been fully accounted for, as for instance in the recent RM580 million write-off by the Malaysian government with the “out-of-court” settlement between Danaharta and other GLCs with Tajudin Ramli on Feb. 14 with regard to all suits pending between them.

When Mahathir said he is prepared to be investigated for the RM100 billion losses from financial scandals during his premiership provided “all the Tuns and their sons and grandsons too” are also investigated, is he just doing a Shahrizat?

Isn't he just rephrasing what the Women, Family and Community Development Minister had said: “Tell me, which UMNO leader does not have problem?” when confronted about the RM250 million National Feedlot Centre “cow condo” scandal?


Is Mahathir so confident that he will enjoy both immunity and impunity for the RM100 billion losses suffered by the country as a result of the financial scandals during his 22-year premiership as the other “Tuns and their sons and grandsons” would never agree to any full investigation, even to clear their names?

Let the Tuns from the Mahathir era, whether Tun Abdullah, Tun Musa Hitam, Tun Daim Zainuddin, Tun Ling Liong Sik or Tun Lim Keng Yaik speak up whether they are prepared to support a full audit and investigation into the RM100 billion losses suffered by the country as a result of the financial scandals in the 22-year Mahathir premiership.

It would appear that Mahathir was also referring to past Tuns and Prime Ministers when he said: “But all Tuns must be audited. The sons and grandsons of Tuns as well.”



Is Mahathir also supremely confident that the “sons and grandsons” of previous Prime Ministers, i.e. Tun Razak and Tun Hussein, would not agree to a full audit and investigation into the RM100 billion financial “blackhole” in the Mahathir era?

Let the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, the leading scions of the second and third Prime Minister respectively, speak up.

Let us also hear from the Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri MuhyidinYasin, every Cabinet Minister and all the Barisan Nasional component parties their respective position whether they would support a full audit and investigation into the RM100 billion “blackhole” caused by the losses of the financial scandals during the 22-year Mahathir premiership.- blog.limkitsiang.com

cheers.