Friday, April 15, 2011

Deny BN two-thirds to boot Taib, Kit Siang tells Sarawak


Lim Kit Siang urged Sarawakians today to prevent Barisan Nasional (BN) from winning two-thirds of tomorrow’s election contest to pressure the state’s longest-serving Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud to quit immediately.

“Tomorrow is ... the most important Sarawak general elections in 48 years since 1963,” said Lim in a statement today.

He said denying BN two-thirds majority in the state assembly would “send an unmistakable message to Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud that he should step down as chief minister not ‘in a few years’ time’ but by tomorrow itself.”

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had pledged on Sunday that Abdul Taib would step down after the election but the chief minister said the next day that it would only be after a few years and refused to give a clear timeline for his retirement.

PKR and DAP have challenged Najib to state Taib’s quit date and successor, pointing out that former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had failed to hold Taib to his promise to retire 16 years ago.

BN, who won 63 seats in the last state election, is expected to retain government but with the opposition making gains in the 71-seat assembly.

Lim also said denying BN a two-thirds majority in the largest state in Malaysia would also send a message to Najib that his “signature policies of 1 Malaysia, Government Transformation Programme and New Economic Model are just empty slogans bereft of real substance of reforms.”


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