{"id":23685,"date":"2021-08-19T14:44:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T06:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=23685"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:47:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T06:47:38","slug":"its-time-for-a-war-cabinet-to-combine-all-political-forces-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/its-time-for-a-war-cabinet-to-combine-all-political-forces-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time for a \u2018War Cabinet\u2019 to combine all political forces against Covid-19!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Media statement by MP for Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on 19 August 2021:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/F0096C32-DF60-441E-A02F-BC96DF2EE152-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23691\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/F0096C32-DF60-441E-A02F-BC96DF2EE152-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/F0096C32-DF60-441E-A02F-BC96DF2EE152-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/F0096C32-DF60-441E-A02F-BC96DF2EE152-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/F0096C32-DF60-441E-A02F-BC96DF2EE152-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/F0096C32-DF60-441E-A02F-BC96DF2EE152-90x90.jpeg 90w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/F0096C32-DF60-441E-A02F-BC96DF2EE152-465x465.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/F0096C32-DF60-441E-A02F-BC96DF2EE152-960x960.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/F0096C32-DF60-441E-A02F-BC96DF2EE152.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>If there are only two names for the position of Prime Minister, then one can be Prime Minister and the other Deputy Prime Minister to form a war cabinet to combine all political forces in a War Parliament to gain control of the war against Covid-19 pandemic and to pave the way for 15th General Election in 18 months\u2019 time<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p>If there are only two names for the position of Prime Minister, then one can be Prime Minister and the other Deputy Prime Minister to form a War Cabinet to combine all political forces in a War Parliament to gain control of the war against Covid-19 pandemic and to pave the way for the 15th General Election in 18 months\u2019 time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The War Cabinet should reflect this parliamentary unity to turn the tides of defeat in the 20-month war against the Covid-19 pandemic with a new policy and strategy to gain control of the Covid-19 pandemic and restore public hope, trust and confidence in a \u201cwhole-of-society\u201d approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Malaysia continues to set new records in the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.facebook.com%2Fkementeriankesihatanmalaysia%2Fposts%2F10158112511391237&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, we set a new peak for daily new Covid-19 cases &#8211; 22, 242 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondly, we overtook Canada and is now ranked No. 25 among countries with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, when 12 months ago last year, we were ranked No. 89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Malaysia declared emergency on January 11, 2021 to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, there were 138,224 Covid-19 cases and 555 Covid-19 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, we have 1,466,512 Covid-19 cases and 13,302 Covid-19 deaths \u2013 a runaway scenario with over 10 times more Covid-19 cases and 24 times the Covid-19 deaths since the declaration of Emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, since in the past seven days, we had a total of 145,965 Covid-19 cases and 1,929 Covid-19 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">This is Malaysia\u2019s \u201cdarkest hour\u201d. We must staunch the national haemorrhage to find our \u201cfinest hour\u201d \u2013 and a War Cabinet and a War Parliament are the remedy for such dire times.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p>The War Parliament must forge national unity to wage the war against the Covid-19 pandemic with MPs playing a leading role in the various parliamentary select committees not only in the Covid-19 pandemic but to prepare the ground for an economic and national recovery to fulfil Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman\u2019s aspiration for Malaysia to be \u201cbeacon of light to a difficult and distracted world\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The War Cabinet and War Parliament must established on the bedrock principles in the Malaysian Constitution and the Rukun Negara of constitutional monarchy based on parliamentary democracy, the doctrine of the separation of powers, uphold the rule of law, good governance and human rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media statement by MP for Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on 19 August 2021: &nbsp; If there are only two names for the position of Prime Minister, then one can be Prime Minister and the other Deputy Prime Minister to form a war cabinet to combine all political forces in a War [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,260,274],"tags":[367,120,2147,25,369,74,684,2146],"class_list":["post-23685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-story","category-current","category-national","tag-covid-19","tag-dap","tag-deputy-prime-minister","tag-lim-kit-siang","tag-malaysia","tag-parliament","tag-prime-minister","tag-war-cabinet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23685","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23693,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23685\/revisions\/23693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}