Beliau menyifatkan dakwaan itu sebagai "satu pembohongan dan tidak mempunyai asas" yang kukuh memandangkan DAP hanya bertanding 48 daripada 222 kerusi parlimen pada pilihan raya umum akan datang.
"Sekiranya mereka menang semua 48 kerusi, mereka tidak perintah negara. Kalau rasa (Melayu) tergugat dengan 48 kerusi daripada 222 kerusi yang dipertandingkan, fakta itu tidak ada asas.
"Untuk menang membentuk kerajaan, sekurang-kurangnya menang 112 kerusi, tetapi mereka bertanding 48 kerusi... (Dakwaan) itu satu pembohongan," katanya.
Sebaliknya, kata Khalid, secara umumnya sebanyak 137 kerusi parlimen akan ditandingi calon Melayu daripada Umno, PAS dan PKR dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang.
Menurutnya, jika PAS tewas sekalipun, calon Melayu tetap menguasai 137 kerusi parlimen sama ada daripada Umno atau PKR.
Beliau menjawab soalan hadirin yang mengutarakan tanggapan kebanyakan orang Melayu yang beranggapan bahawa DAP akan menguasai Melayu sekiranya mereka menang dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang.
Selain Khalid, turut dijemput menjadi panelis setiausaha politik kepada setiausaha agung DAP Zairil Khir Johari, pensyarah Dr Maszlee Malek dan Ketua Eksekutif Institut Hal Ehwal Ekonomi dan Demokrasi (IDEAS) Wan Saiful Wan Jan.
Guan Eng tekankan hormat perlembagaan
Bercakap dalam forum bertajuk "Islam, Melayu dan DAP" anjuran akhbar Roketkini.com, isu DAP - yang dianggap sebagai 'chauvanis' - menggugat kuasa Melayu bukan merupakan isu sebenarnya.
Ahli jawatankuasa Pusat PAS itu berkata, sebaliknya menegaskan, isu yang menjadi tumpuan sebenarnya adalah bagaimana mahu "menjatuhkan ahli politik yang kotor" dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang.
Mengulas perkara yang sama, Dr Maszlee mendakwa penguasaan BN yang mencipta "stigma" bahawa DAP akan berbuat demikian sekiranya memerintah negara ini.
"Itu hanya propaganda," katanya di hadapan kira-kira 100 hadirin yang memenuhi Dewan Annex, Shah Alam Selangor petang semalam.
Pensyarah Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA) itu juga menegaskan DAP tidak boleh membuat pindaan perlembagaan jika menguasai negara ini.
Ini kerana, tegasnya, parti itu memerlukan persetujuan dua pertiga ahli Dewan Rakyat dan perkenan Raja-raja Melayu untuk berbuat demikian.
Manakala Zairil pula, beliau tidak menjawab secara langsung perkara itu tetapi menegaskan sejak Setiausaha Agung DAP Lim Guan Eng mentadbir parti itu sejak 2005, Lim menekankan supaya ahlinya menghormati Perlembagaan Persekutuan.
Tegasnya, hal demikian termasuklah artikel yang menjamin kepentingan orang Melayu, bahasa Melayu dan Raja-raja Melayu.- malaysiakini
DAP no threat to Malay community,says PAS...
DAP is not a threat to the Malays' political position because they simply cannot win the majority of parliamentary seats, according to PAS.
"How can DAP be a threat to Malay representation when they only contest 48 out of 222 seats?" Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad threw the question to a crowd of 100.
It would only be a valid concern if DAP ever contested and managed to capture a majority of the seats, said the PAS parliamentarian at a forum in Shah Alam yesterday evening.
Khalid (right) pointed out that the majority is in the hands of the community, giving an off hand estimate of 137 seats.And as these constituencies are vied for by only Malay candidates from Umno and PAS or PKR, the community's representation is maintained no matter which party wins, he said.
The forum, titled "Wacana Islam Melayu DAP" (A DAP Malay-Muslim Discourse) was held at the SUK building, Shah Alam.
The other panellists were Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng's political secretary Zairil Khir Johari, Dr Maszlee Malik of the International Islamic University of Malaysia (UIAM) and Wan Saiful Wan Jan of libertarian think-tank Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS).
Shadow cabinet, a policy distraction
Khalid also sought to explain why the opposition pact had declined to draw up a shadow cabinet, in response to a question from the floor.
Pakatan Rakyat feels that the policies they would implement if they took power were more important than the people appointed to head the ministries, he said.
"If we list all the names of our nominee ministers, others will raise issues.
"The discussion would centre on the individual, rather than policies," he added.
Zairil agreed, jokingly that other parties would jump on any appointment made for the sake of scoring political points."If tomorrow we announce that Tony Pua would be Education Minister, people would come out and say this ‘Cina ah beng' is trying to take control of our children," he quipped, sparking laughter among the crowd.
Dr Maszlee, however, dissented, saying he would adamantly campaign for the Pakatan to outline a shadow cabinet.
"And I will also campaign to for Barisan Nasional to form a shadow cabinet - when they form the federal opposition," he cracked to cheers from the audience.- malaysiakini
Tiada kabinet bayangan utk dijadikan mainan UMNO...
Ahli jawatankuasa Pusat PAS itu berkata pembentukan kabinet itu "ada pro dan kontra" tetapi tindakan itu dibuat bagi mengelakkan ia menjadi mainan politik Umno.
"Kita kata Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim jadi perdana menteri, nanti disebut gila kuasa. Dilantik pula (ahli parlimen Pakatan) jadi menteri itu dan ini, Umno kata kita gila jawatan, agih-agih jawatan," katanya.
Sebaliknya, kata Khalid, apa yang menjadi perkara pokok dan terpenting bagi gabungan parti itu adalah "bukan siapa yang memegang jawatan, sebaliknya apa dasar yang ingin dilaksanakan".
"Kita mahu perbahasan tentang dasar. Kita tidak mahu alih isu yang sebenar... Nanti ada pembunuhan watak (kepada ahli parlimen Pakatan)," tegasnya.
Ketika ini, Pakatan menguasai 79 kerusi parlimen, setelah beberapa ahli parlimen Pakatan yang melompat dan menjadi ahli bebas.
Penganalisis: Sistem tidak menggalakkannya
Khalid menjawab soalan hadirin mengapa Pakatan Rakyat tidak dalam forum anjuran akhbar akhbar web DAP Roketkini.com yang bertajuk "Melayu, Islam dan DAP" di Dewan Annex, Shah Alam petang semalam.
Turut hadir sebagai panelis adalah setiausaha politik kepada setiausaha agung DAP Zairil Khir Johari, pensyarah Dr Maszlee Malek dan Ketua Eksekutif Institut Hal Ehwal Ekonomi dan Demokrasi (IDEAS) Wan Saiful Wan Jan.
Mengulas lanjut, Khalid berkata gabungan itu akan memikirkan tokoh yang sesuai untuk memegang jawatan tertentu dalam kabinet sekiranya mereka menang dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang.
Sementara itu, Wan Saiful dan Zairil pula bersetuju dengan pandangan Khalid yang juga timbalan pesuruhjaya PAS Selangor mengenai perkara tersebut.
Malah Wan Saiful yang juga pemerhati politik berkata beliau akan berlakunya perebutan jawatan sekiranya penubuhan kabinet tersebut dibuat.
"Ia menjadi bebanan dan tidak ada peruntukkan untuk membentuk satu kabinet bayangan... Sistem kita tidak menggalakkan penubuhan kerana (tiada) debat rasional dalam suasana politik," katanya.
Manakala Dr Maszlee pula bersetuju dengan pandangan Wan Saiful bahawa "tiada peruntukan dan tidak ada natijah" yang membolehkan Pakatan menubuhkan kabinet bayangan.- malaysiakini
Guan Eng: Perkasa protests have to respect privacy...
Acknowledging the right to protest, Penang
Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said today the invasion of privacy and
“personal space” of individuals was contrary to democratic principles.
“It is the right of every Malaysian to be able to protest his or her own issues, but to do so by intruding into personal space and invading the privacy of family homes or wishing for the death of anyone is utterly vile, completely disrespectful and contrary to the basic tenets of democracy,” Lim said.
Lim said this in response to Malay rights pressure group Perkasa, which conducted a mock funeral rite outside his house.
He also rapped the police for their inaction to a death threat against him, as the chief minister of the state.
“Clearly, this is the first time that such a 'death wish' or 'death threat' has been made against a chief minister.
“What is equally clear is that the police present were indifferent and did not stop the Perkasa members from violating my private space,” Lim said.
Yesterday Penang Perkasa Youth chief Risuan Asuddin led about 30 members to stage a protest in front of Lim’s residence in Penang, and they placed a framed photo of the CM, garlanded, signifying a deceased person.
The group was allegedly unhappy with Lim rule of Penang since 2008.
Burger protesters ‘unlicensed’
Lim also slammed the ‘ burger stall protest’ outside Bersih chairperson S Ambiga’s house, in particular the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), for not taking action against the illegal hawking.
“I fail to understand how DBKL can allow a burger stall to be set up outside a private residence, with impunity, in Kuala Lumpur?
“By
failing to act against the ‘burger protest’ set up illegally outside S
Ambiga's house, BN and DBKL are subjecting her to undue harassment,
intimidation and invasion of privacy.
“Will DBKL allow a similar protest outside the private home of ministers or the KL mayor’s residence?
“Is rule of law in Malaysia now replaced by rule of the jungle?”Lim asked.
He added that the act of cooking meat outside Ambiga’s house was “extremely disrespectful” as the Bersih chief is a vegetarian.
Yesterday, a group of traders staged a protest outside Ambiga’s house, alleging that the Bersih 3.0 rally for clean and fair elections had caused them business losses.- malaysiakini
“It is the right of every Malaysian to be able to protest his or her own issues, but to do so by intruding into personal space and invading the privacy of family homes or wishing for the death of anyone is utterly vile, completely disrespectful and contrary to the basic tenets of democracy,” Lim said.
Lim said this in response to Malay rights pressure group Perkasa, which conducted a mock funeral rite outside his house.He also rapped the police for their inaction to a death threat against him, as the chief minister of the state.
“Clearly, this is the first time that such a 'death wish' or 'death threat' has been made against a chief minister.
“What is equally clear is that the police present were indifferent and did not stop the Perkasa members from violating my private space,” Lim said.
Yesterday Penang Perkasa Youth chief Risuan Asuddin led about 30 members to stage a protest in front of Lim’s residence in Penang, and they placed a framed photo of the CM, garlanded, signifying a deceased person.
The group was allegedly unhappy with Lim rule of Penang since 2008.
Burger protesters ‘unlicensed’
Lim also slammed the ‘ burger stall protest’ outside Bersih chairperson S Ambiga’s house, in particular the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), for not taking action against the illegal hawking.
“I fail to understand how DBKL can allow a burger stall to be set up outside a private residence, with impunity, in Kuala Lumpur?
“By
failing to act against the ‘burger protest’ set up illegally outside S
Ambiga's house, BN and DBKL are subjecting her to undue harassment,
intimidation and invasion of privacy.“Will DBKL allow a similar protest outside the private home of ministers or the KL mayor’s residence?
“Is rule of law in Malaysia now replaced by rule of the jungle?”Lim asked.
He added that the act of cooking meat outside Ambiga’s house was “extremely disrespectful” as the Bersih chief is a vegetarian.
Yesterday, a group of traders staged a protest outside Ambiga’s house, alleging that the Bersih 3.0 rally for clean and fair elections had caused them business losses.- malaysiakini
Is Najib not wise enough?...
On April 28, 2012, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak may have been afflicted by the ‘Do Stupid Thing star’ because if he had allowed the Bersih 3.0 sit-in to go on peacefully on Dataran Merdeka, he would have scored many brownie points among the fence-sitter voters.
All he has to do is to set the simple rule that the participants must start dispersing at 4pm instead of passing the buck to the KL mayor to declare the place off-limits.
This columnist’s friend who works at a budget hotel in KL had European tourists asking her questions such as these in a very surprised tone of voice:
1. ‘Why did the government disallow the participants from gathering at the field?’ and
2. ‘What is wrong with gathering at the field?’
To any sane and logical person, a gathering at the field presents an opportunity for a picnic in an atmosphere of camaraderie among fellow-Malaysians from all walks of life and is just an afternoon for a walk in the park, so to speak. But it has turned horribly into a day of dicing with danger.
Clearly, PM Najib was not thinking correctly on April 28. He must realise that this is the era of Facebook and YouTube and pictures can be snapped and uploaded instantly unlike in the 1960s wherein news events can be easily covered up.
News in this day and age spread like wildfire and recently this columnist received a text message saying that Parliament will be dissolved on Monday May 14, and polling will be on Saturday June 9.
A check with friends also revealed that they have received this same text message. Is this a prank to tax Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) time and resources?
Nevertheless, if PM Najib does indeed dissolve Parliament in May, he does so at his own peril as it just goes to plainly show that he does not respect the citizens at all because he has chosen to ignore our demands for a free and fair election.
He is in effect showing his utmost contempt for us by treating us as rubbish; as if the voice of those gathered for the Bersih rally do not matter.
Hello, Mr. Prime Minister, what about your slogan of ‘People First’? Is that rubbish too? From here we can sum up that the PM despite all his mind-numbing rhetoric does not give two hoots to the wishes of the rakyat.
If BN wins the polls via the votes of more than three million dubious voters, then what we have is a massive electoral fraud. If it does happen, does it mean that ‘fake votes has installed a fake government’?
Gentlemanly thing to do
PM Najib should not call for the polls until the voter rolls are cleaned up. That is the gentleman thing to do in order to ensure a fair contest.
As it is, it is now a very uneven playing field favouring the BN federal government because the mainstream media especially the newspapers are controlled by BN and they are getting worse and worse by the day due to the increasingly heavy volume of venomous propaganda spewing forth daily.
Thus the credibility of the PM together with the mainstream media is doubtful to put it mildly; although Malaysians who do not access the internet are still living in a dark tunnel oblivious to real events going on around them.
As the well-known saying goes: ‘ignorance is bliss’.
Back to the 13th general election, if PM Najib does indeed decide to hold the polls next month, then it is obvious that he just wants to bulldoze the polls through in the same manner that he had bulldozed through all those eight bills in Parliament on April 19 until the session lasted into 3.20am the following day.
Be that as it may, even if he wins at the ballot box via dubious means, will he be able to sit down comfortably as the PM once the submarine case gets going on in the French court?
Moreover he will have to contend with a tarnished image as the winner of rigged polls. Leaders of other nations will also not look at him with a favourable light due to his wild and crazy accusation that Malaysian citizens who only demand for free and fair elections are out to topple him.
These world leaders will know then that there is a basis for the citizens’ demands.
The day of reckoning will come. The drama does not end at the ballot box nor at the counting centres.
Brace yourself for the Malaysian movie blockbuster of the year called ‘September Monsoon: The Dragon Also Rises’. We are indeed living in interesting times, as the Chinese saying goes.- Selena Tay,FMT
DAP boycott of Hanif-led panel
DAP will be boycotting the six-member independent panel led by former inspector-general of police Hanif Omar to probe the violence in Bersih 3.0 rally on April 28.
"DAP
declares a full boycott of the independent panel ... so long as Hanif
Omar is a chairman and member, as he has compromised his impartiality by
publicly condemning Bersih 3.0 as communist-linked and an attempt to
overthrow the government," said DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng.The boycott comes hot in the heels of Bar Council's announcement yesterday that it would snub the panel, following a similar move by Bersih leaders.
"Hanif is first and foremost disqualified from serving on the investigation panel due to a conflict of interest as not only is the police force being accused (of violence), he has publicly condemned Bersih thereby revealing his prejudice and bias against the rally.
"By linking Bersih to communism, Hanif is still fighting yesterday's long-concluded wars, making the outcome of these investigations a foregone conclusion," said Lim.
Hanif should appear as witness instead
The Penang CM stressed that the issue was not whether Hanif had been impartial in his past investigations, but rather that he has taken a partisan stance, and he should instead appear as a witness.
Lim also backed Bersih's call for the panel to be led by United Nation special rapporteurs Frank William La Rue (right) and Maina Kiai, as well as the Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam)."DAP agrees with the Bar Council that the independent panel lacks any legal framework and features as legal immunity for those involved in the proceeding as well as lacking legal power to subpoena witnesses or call for the production of documents."
Lim said that with the present set-up of the panel, it appeared to be an attempt to whitewash police brutality and the suffering of the victims on that day or to justify the ruling coalition claims that the rally was aimed at toppling the government.
Meanwhile DAP Ipoh Timor MP Lim Kit Siang blasted PM Najib Razak and Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein for ignoring the fundamental principle behind the objections against Hanif based on his “prejudicial” statements on Bersih 3.0.
“Malaysians and the world must wonder why important personages like the prime minister and the home minister could not understand the very clear, simple and irrefutable reason...” said Lim in a statement today.
“The objection to Hanif’s appointment lies solely and squarely in the incontrovertible fact that the former IGP had stained and disqualified himself as a member of any inquiry.”
Lim noted that apart from the Malaysian Bar and Bersih, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), Suaram, “and even Deputy Higher Education Minister Saifuddin Abdullah” have declared their objection to Hanif’s appointment.
'Stop the lies, Hisham'
In a separate statement, Lim called on the home minister to “stop spreading lies and falsehoods about Bersih 3.0 as his allegation that ‘some parties wanted serious injuries and deaths’ is most wild, irresponsible and deplorable”.
“There
is no iota of evidence whatsoever to back this latest but totally wild
and contemptible allegation emanating from government quarters,” said
Lim.He said if Hishammuddin had “intelligence” related to the matter or similarly, to the alleged “coup” planned by Bersih, he would be “negligent” not to have acted before the rally and to have earlier declared Bersih “not a security threat”.
“Hishammuddin as home minister should not pile lies and falsehoods about the Bersih 3.0 rally.
“He is in fact reinforcing the conviction of sceptical Malaysians who do not believe that the government is prepared for a truly independent, impartial, comprehensive and authoritative inquiry into the Bersih 3.0 rally on April 28 and the deplorable violence and brutality that ensued,” said Lim.- malaysiakini
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