“Mereka melayan kita macam peminta sedekah, 10 minit waktu siaran tidak bermakna kebebasan media,” kata Lim dalam sidang akhbar hari ini.
Ketua menteri Pulau Pinang itu memberi respon terhadap kenyataan Menteri Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan Datuk Seri Rais Yatim Jumaat lalu setiap parti politik diberikan masa 10 minit yang dirakamkan sebelumnya untuk membentangkan manifesto menjelang pilihan raya umum.
“Masa 10 minit ini adalah lawak, kita tidak mahu terima tawaran ini kerana kita tidak mahu beri Barisan Nasional (BN) kepuasan dan justifikasi mereka mengamalkan kebebasan bersuara,” kata Lim.
Lim melabel tawaran itu sebagai ejek-ejekan kepada kebebasan akhbar, demokrasi dan satu penghinaan kepada kebijaksanaan rakyat.
“Kami tidak mahu 10 minit, satu jam atau dua jam, apa yang kita mahu adalah hak untuk menjawab,” katanya.
Beliau mengatakan pembangkang mahu hak untuk menjawab bukan sahaja semasa musim pilihan raya, tetapi pada semua masa dalam semua media arus perdana dan berita televisyen, hampir kesemuanya di kawal BN.
Rais berkata peluang disediakan kerana menghormati sistem demokrasi di negara ini.
Lim berkata, rakan-rakan parti komponen Pakatan Rakyat seperti PAS mungkin tidak akan menerima tawaran tersebut.
“Saya sudah bercakap dengan Timbalan Presiden Mohamad Sabu dan beliau bersetuju dengan DAP untuk tidak menerima tawaran tersebut jadi PAS juga tidak akan menerima tawaran tersebut juga,” katanya.
Lim juga akan berbincang mengenai perkara ini dengan Ketua Umum PKR Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.-malaysiakini
DAP rejects 10-minute airtime for election manifesto...
The DAP will not accept the government’s offer of 10 minutes of airtime for opposition parties to present their election manifesto on Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) when Parliament is dissolved.
Secretary-general
Lim Guan Eng said he views the offer by Information, Communications and
Culture Minister Rais Yatim as “an insult” to the party.
"We do not want to be beggars. Democracy is not charity or like giving alms. Giving us 10 minutes of airtime does not mean we have freedom of speech," he told a press conference in Penang today.
"What we have always wanted is the right of reply, not one minute or one hour on TV. This is really a joke.
“We will not accept the offer because we do not want to give them the satisfaction and justification to feel as if they have practised press freedom or freedom of speech just by making this offer.”
Lim said PAS deputy president Mohamed Sabu (right) agrees with his views, and that he will contact PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim as well.
Lim was responding to Rais' statement last Friday that the offer would apply to both the BN and the opposition, but that the presentation would have to be pre-recorded.
Rais also said it is up to the parties to accept or reject the offer.
"They hit us every day on the campaign trail and then just give us 10 minutes for our manifesto?" Lim asked.
"This is our democratic right, we should not be begging for it. Don't think they can try to buy us for a mere 10 minutes.
“We want the right of reply, not only during the general election or campaign trail but at all times.”- malaysiakini
Secretary-general
Lim Guan Eng said he views the offer by Information, Communications and
Culture Minister Rais Yatim as “an insult” to the party."We do not want to be beggars. Democracy is not charity or like giving alms. Giving us 10 minutes of airtime does not mean we have freedom of speech," he told a press conference in Penang today.
"What we have always wanted is the right of reply, not one minute or one hour on TV. This is really a joke.
“We will not accept the offer because we do not want to give them the satisfaction and justification to feel as if they have practised press freedom or freedom of speech just by making this offer.”
Lim said PAS deputy president Mohamed Sabu (right) agrees with his views, and that he will contact PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim as well.Lim was responding to Rais' statement last Friday that the offer would apply to both the BN and the opposition, but that the presentation would have to be pre-recorded.
Rais also said it is up to the parties to accept or reject the offer.
"They hit us every day on the campaign trail and then just give us 10 minutes for our manifesto?" Lim asked.
"This is our democratic right, we should not be begging for it. Don't think they can try to buy us for a mere 10 minutes.
“We want the right of reply, not only during the general election or campaign trail but at all times.”- malaysiakini
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