Fed up with the non-stop negative politicking and the increasingly aggressive intimidation, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim plans to expose the threats made by Umno-Barisan Nasional against Pakatan Rakyat assemblymen and members of Parliament.
“I am going to show proof of blackmail in my speech in Parliament ,” Anwar said.
He did not give further details, but speculation is rife he may raise several cases involving assemblymen V Arumugam of Bukit Selambau in Kedah, Elizabeth Wong of Bukit Lanjan in Selangor, and a RM50 million bribe offered to Pakatan state representatives in Perak to defect.
The Perak Pakatan Rakyat Supporters Club too has lodged a report with the Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission to probe deputy speaker Hee Yit Fong of DAP, Jamaluddin Md Radzi and Osman Jailu of KeADILan over allegations they had received money to support BN
Unable to accept two-party system
Even KeADILan vice president Azmin Ali has not been spared. The Bukit Antarabangsa MP told reporters he had installed a CCTV system in his house after both brake hoses in his car were recently cut and his house was broken into four times within a year.
“When my house was broken into, it was not an ordinary burglary.They wanted to put something into the house,” said Azmin.
Since losing its long-held two-thirds majority in the watershed March 2008 general election, the Umno-led BN has been trying all ways and means to dislodge the Pakatan Rakyat’s control of five of the nation’s 13 states.
It is the belief of many Malaysians that if not for the mature hand of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi then, Umno would have instigated riots and even triggerred emergency rule in a desperate bid to retain power in Selangor, Penang, Perak and Kedah.
However, Abdullah himself has since been ousted and manoeuvred into early retirement.
He is due to transfer power to his scandal-plagued deputy next month, even though Najib has again attracted mass unpopularity after a recent and widely-condemned power grab in Perak.
Growing distaste and distrust for Najib
Despite controlling the country’s coffers as Finance Minister, Najib has also done little to alleviate the never-before-seen retrenchments taking place across the country, and which is expected to intensify in the months ahead.
“The consensus view is that Najib is not doing enough. It is no point blaming the global situation, every country is affected. You have to differentiate yourself and make life easier for your people,” said Azrul Azwa, an economist at Bank Islam Bhd.
“But despite controlling the federal funds, what we have seen from him so far this year is Kuala Terengganu, Perak crisis and now allegedly even the nude pictures of Eli Wong.”
As public distaste for Najib starts to show up publicly, his mentor Mahathir Mohamad is trying to pre-empt the matter by criticising Abdullah and blaming him for the country’s woes.
Yet Mahathir, who ruled Malaysia with a fist of iron for 22 years, has not been able to explain why or how the embattled Najib could do a better job - especially given that the trust levels Malaysians hold for Najib are much lower than that for Abdullah.
“We have already witnessed how Abdullah’s weak governance had emboldened certain quarters to raise all sorts of controversies which threaten the stability of the country,” Mahathir wrote in his www.chedet.com blog.
Source: suarakeadilan.com
By Wong Choon Mei
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