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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Regain your bearings, Lim warns Pakatan

The DAP leader says the alliance should not take renewed public support in Selangor for granted.
lim kit siang300PETALING JAYA: DAP Parliamentary Leader Lim Kit Siang today warned Pakatan Rakyat against complacency in the wake of a rebound in its public support following the Selangor political crisis.
Lim welcomed the results of last month’s poll by University Malaya’s Centre for Democracy and Elections, which showed increased support for Pakatan, but he said the alliance’s showing might have been better if the Selangor public had not been disillusioned with it during the crisis over the position of the Selangor Menteri Besar.
In a press statement comparing the results of the latest poll with one carried out in May, he said: “The rebound in public support to 43% would have been even more significant than just jumping eight percentage points from 35% as public frustration and disillusionment with PR in Selangor would have plummeted to lower than the 35% registered in May, especially in the months from July to September, which saw the greatest heights of public disenchantment with PR in Selangor until the resolution of the crisis.
“Indisputably, the rebound in support for PR in Selangor would have gone through double-digit percentage points.”
He called on the Pakatan parties and leaders to “regain their bearings” and to reaffirm their commitment to their Common Policy Framework and their Operational Principle of Consensus so that they would “continue to be relevant to the hopes and expectations of Malaysians for a better tomorrow”.
“The reaffirmation of these two basic principles of PR will take the coalition to greater heights while their denial will despatch PR to the dustbin of history,” he added.
Unfair to Nancy
In another press statement issued today, Lim gave his reaction to de facto Law Minister Nancy Shukri’s statement that the Cabinet could not make decisions for the Attorney-General.
He said Nancy was right in saying that the Cabinet could not meddle with the AG’s discretion to prosecute but wrong in implying that it was “impotent or must accept an Attorney-General who is guilty of selective or malicious prosecution, like the failure to prosecute Perkasa President Ibrahim Ali despite his threat to burn the Malay-language Bible”.
Lim’s statement showed an apparent toning down of his almost daily criticism of Nancy over her statement regarding the AG’s decision not to prosecute Ibrahim.
“It may seem unfair that Nancy has been hounded for over two weeks for her parliamentary answer that Ibrahim Ali was not prosecuted for his threat to burn the Malay-language Bible, but this national outrage will not cease simply because right-thinking Malaysians cannot accept the two reasons which had been given for the Attorney-General’s decision not to prosecute – that Ibrahim was protecting the sanctity of Islam and Ibrahim’s action was protected by Article 11(4) of the Constitution,” he said.
“The Attorney-General and the Prime Minister should have come to her rescue, but they have chosen to keep quiet.
“By the principle of Cabinet collective responsibility, the other ministers should also have come to her assistance, but no minister is prepared to

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