Naib Presiden PAS Datuk Mahfuz Omar menafikan peserta Bersih 3.0 berniat mahu mengguling kerajaan melalui demonstrasi jalanan.Sebaliknya mereka hadir ke Dataran Merdeka hanya untuk menuntut sistem pilihan raya yang adil dan bersih daripada sebarang penyelewengan.
“Kita datang bawa garam dan air mineral sahaja. Kalau niat tak baik sudah tentu kita bawa senjata,” katanya dalam sidang media di ibu pejabat PAS di sini hari ini.
Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dalam ucapannya di Gua Musang minggu lalu mendakwa wujud cubaan pembangkang semasa Bersih 3.0 mahu menjadikan Dataran Merdeka sama seperti Dataran Tahrir di Mesir.
“Lucu rasanya melihat pemimpin kerajaan gelabah. Kita dah buat Bersih tiga kali tapi sebelum ni tak sebut pun nak guling kerajaan,” katanya.
Sementara itu, beliau berkata PAS turut menghormati keputusan Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan semalam yang mengharamkan umat Islam menyertai perhimpunan atau demonstrasi yang bertujuan tidak baik, melanggar undang-undang serta mencetuskan hura-hura dan kekacauan dalam negara.
Walau bagaimanapun, Mahfuz berkata Majlis Fatwa sepatutnya melihat secara keseluruhan punca tercetusnya perhimpunan itu.
“Ramai rakyat keluar pergi ke Dataran Merdeka nak tunjuk perasaan dengan niat yang baik kerana ada penyelewengan dalam sistem pilihan raya.
“Kalau benar wujud cubaan nak gulingkan kerajaan kita buat di Dataran Putrajaya, bukannya di Dataran Merdeka,” katanya.
Beliau sebaliknya mendakwa polis yang melanggar fatwa kerana bertindak melulu terhadap peserta Bersih 3.0 tanpa menyiasat secara terperinci.
Merujuk kepada penahanan pelajar UiTM Khalid Ismath, Mahfuz berkata polis sepatutnya membuat siasatan forensik secara terperinci terlebih dahulu mengenai kesahihan gambar yang menunjukkan seorang pemuda menggunakan kekerasan terhadap anggota polis trafik.
“Malangnya polis bertindak hanya berasaskan gambar yang disiarkan dalam blog pro Umno,” katanya.
‘Arab Saudi bukannya bodoh’
Selain itu, Mahfuz turut menepis dakwaan Naib Presiden Umno dan juga Menteri Pertahanan Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi yang mahu penganjur Bersih 3.0 bertanggungjawab sekiranya jemaah Malaysia tidak dibenarkan menunaikan ibadah haji dan umrah bagi tempoh tertentu.
Ini berdasarkan laporan media pihak berkuasa Arab Saudi sedang menjalankan siasatan terperinci terhadap penganjuran perhimpunan Bersih 3.0 di Mekah dan Madinah pada 28 April lalu.
“Kerajaan Arab Saudi bukannya bodoh macam kerajaan Malaysia.
“Kalau mereka halang, sudah tentu peniaga di Arab Saudi buat tunjuk perasaan membantah kerana rakyat Malaysia kuat membeli belah dan banyak menyumbang kepada kegiatan ekonomi mereka,” katanya.-FMT
Pakatan didn't seek free pass via Bersih 3.0
PAS vice-president Mahfuz Omar has debunked the prime minister's claim that the Bersih 3.0 rally was a move to topple the government, saying that it was markedly different from the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East.
He
said the rally was to call for clean and fair elections so that the
opposition and the government can slug it out at the polls, and not to
force the ouster of Najib Abdul Razak."Najib is afraid of his own shadow. (Bersih 3.0 was) different than the demonstrations in Egypt, where the protesters asked for Hosni Mubarak to step down, so they could take over,” he said today.
"In Malaysia, we never asked (Najib to step down). We don't want a free victory. We want to win or lose in a clean and fair election.”
Najib had said the government had feared that the demonstrators would set up a prolonged encampment at Dataran Merdeka.
The authorities have since claimed that Bersih 3.0 was a move to topple the BN-led federal government.
Asked why protesters were chanting “tumbang BN” (topple BN) if they were not out to topple the government, Mahfuz said this was because BN is allegedly cheating in the polls.
He added that the government continues with its scare tactics, now claiming that the Saudi government may ban pilgrims from Mecca after some protesters took photographs of themselves with Bersih T-shirts and banners there.
“The Saudi government is not as stupid as the Malaysian government. If Malaysian pilgrims are banned, the traders in Mecca would stage a protest as Malaysians are big shoppers and this would affect the traders’ livelihoods,” he quipped.
He was responding to a report by Umno-owned Mingguan Malaysia quoting unnamed sources as saying that the Saudi government is now mulling banning Malaysian pilgrims from Mecca.
A group of Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman traders had also staged a demonstration on Saturday saying that the Bersih 3.0 rally had caused them severe losses.- malaysiakini
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