{"id":12861,"date":"2015-05-05T12:22:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T04:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=12861"},"modified":"2015-05-05T12:22:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T04:22:47","slug":"permatang-pauh-to-pave-the-way-for-ge-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/permatang-pauh-to-pave-the-way-for-ge-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Permatang Pauh to pave the way for GE 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speech by DAP Parliamentary Leader and MP for Gelang Patah Lim Kit Siang at the PermatangPauh by-election ceramah on Monday, 4th May 2015
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\"lim-kit-siang\"<\/a>Two years ago, the hopes and dreams of the majority of 11 million Malaysian voters who voted in the 13th General Elections for a new Federal Government and a new Prime Minister in Anwar Ibrahim were frustrated by a undemocratic electoral system resulting in the appointment for the first time in the nation\u2019s history of a \u201cminority\u201d Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, on 7th May, in PermatangPauh by-election, the voters of Permatang Pauh must continue to lead the country to keep these hopes and dreams for change alive and to achieve what Malaysians had failed to achieve in the 13GE two years ago \u2013 to form a new Federal Government with Anwar Ibrahim as the Prime Minister in the 14GE.<\/p>\n

Malaysia will never become a normal democratic country unless we can effect a peaceful transition of federal power through the electoral process instead of regarding it as a national catastrophe, and there can be no meaningful change of political, socio-economic, educational and whole range of nation-building policies unless there is such a political change.<\/p>\n

The movement for change must be based on the formula to unite and mobilise all Malaysians, regardless of race \u2013 Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans and Ibans \u2013 and regardless of religion \u2013 Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs \u2013 as Malaysia\u2019s future can only secured and advanced by an inclusive political campaign which has a place of dignity and honour for every Malaysian under the Malaysian sun.<\/p>\n

On Nomination Day ten days ago, I had highlighted five key issues for the by-election, viz:<\/p>\n

1. Anunequivocal condemnation on behalf of 30 million Malaysians for the continued persecution of Anwar Ibrahim and a categorical call for Anwar\u2019s immediate release from jail.<\/p>\n

2. Rejection of the 6% GST imposed on April 1;<\/p>\n

3. Condemnation of the RM42 billion 1MDB scandal \u2013 deploring Prime Minister Najib Razak\u2019s failure to come to PermatangPauh to explain the many questions about the scandal raised both by PR and UMNO leaders, including former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir.<\/p>\n

4. Censure the growing repression in the country, the latest being the mass arrests after the peaceful May Day anti-GST demonstration in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n

5. To \u201cSave Malaysia\u201d from the failures of Najib\u2019snation-building policies, with the country faced with the worst racial and religious polarization under his administration.<\/p>\n

These five key issues must remain uppermost in the minds of Permatang Pauh voters on Thursday when they cast their vote for Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail in the by-election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speech by DAP Parliamentary Leader and MP for Gelang Patah Lim Kit Siang at the PermatangPauh by-election ceramah on Monday, 4th May 2015 Two years ago, the hopes and dreams of the majority of 11 million Malaysian voters who voted in the 13th General Elections for a new Federal Government and a new Prime Minister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12863,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861\/revisions\/12863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}