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Monday, October 5, 2015

Kit Siang: Follow Aussie example to oust Najib

Malcolm Turnbull became Australia’s 29th Prime Minister in a dramatic leadership change which took place in a matter of hours.
kit-siang-Najib-Abdul-RazakKUALA LUMPUR: DAP elder statesman Lim Kit Siang, keeping the recent Australian example in mind, wonders whether any Umno/Barisan Nasional (BN) leader and MP who supports the call by two top leaders for Najib to step down as Prime Minister, and expresses his or her stand in public, will be liable to party discipline, be it suspension or expulsion.
Lim, who is DAP Parliamentary Leader and Gelang Patah MP, was referring to former MCA President Ling Liong Sik echoing former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in urging that Najib step down. “These are the uncharted political waters which Malaysians are entering.”
In the middle of last month, reminded Lim, Malcolm Turnbull became Australia’s 29th Prime Minister replacing Tony Abbot in a dramatic leadership change which took place in a matter of hours.
During question time on Monday 14 September 2015, Turnbull paid a visit to Abbot to request a leadership ballot on Tuesday morning, but Abbot decided on a leadership ballot the same night, recalled Lim. “It was won by Turnbull in a 54-44 vote among the Liberal Parliamentarians.”
Although the political system in Malaysia is not the same as the Australian one, conceded Lim, the question is whether the 54 Liberal MPs who voted for a change of the Australian Prime Minister could have been suspended or sacked from the Party by Abbot to forestall any majority win by Turnbull. “Can a Umno/BN leader declare that Najib should step down as Prime Minister without being disciplined or sacked for breach of party discipline?”
Although MCA Ministers, Wee Ka Siong and Ong Ka Chuan, have in double-quick time dissociated the MCA leadership from Ling’s stand, said Lim, there’s no doubt that Mahathir’s and Ling’s call on Najib to step down as Prime Minister has struck a great resonance among the ordinary Umno and MCA membership. “This support for the call on Najib to step down as Prime Minister will increase when he continues to be incapable of coming clean on the two mega scandals i.e. the RM50 billion 1MDB issue and the RM2.6 billion ‘donation’ controversy.”
“It would be compounded by Najib being the first Prime Minister or President not only in Asia but the world to be probed as a kleptocrat by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) under its Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative 2010.”
It is a matter of grave national concern that two weeks after the New York Times first reported about the Najib probe by the US DoJ under the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, neither the Prime Minister nor the Malaysian Government could categorically come out with a denial, lamented Lim.
Issues of public credibility and integrity of Malaysian leaders have reached such a parlous stage that the double-quick dissociation of MCA Ministers from Ling’s support for Mahathir’s call on Najib to step down as Prime Minister immediately raises the question of whether MCA Ministers had anything to do with the RM2.6 billion “donation” scandal, charged Lim. “The monies were alleged to have been farmed out to Umno/BN leaders during the 13th General Elections.”
Did Wee and Ong receive any funding from the RM2.6 billion “donation” for the 13th General Election, asked Lim, and if so, how much; and how much did the MCA receive as a whole from Najib, out of the “donation”, for the last General Election; and whether the MCA leadership is capable of giving a full statement of such funding from the “donation”.
Coming back to the original question, asked Lim, would any Umno/BN leader or MP be blacklisted and disciplined if anyone declared their support for the Mahathir/Ling call for Najib to step down as Prime Minister.

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