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Does DAP still stand for democracy and justice for Malaysians?
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 29, 2023: Clearly, there is something wrong with the DAP and its 40 Members of Parliament.
And, perhaps, it has all to do with being power and governance that it has abandoned many of its former ethical issues.
Today, it is now just a lapdog political party (just as Umno’s top lapdog MCA), muted on the many issues that it used to fight for.
The arm chairs are just getting too comfortable for the DAP leaders who have, obviously, taken the rakyat (people)’s support for granted.
With the party rejecting Kuala Lumpur DAP chairman and Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai’s proposal for local elections, is the DAP still a party that stands for democracy and justice for Malaysians?
No News Is Bad News reproduces an opinion piece written by former Penang deputy chief minister and DAP member Dr P.Ramasamy and posted by suspected CIA-backed political website Malaysia Chronicle:
THE 'GREAT PRETENDER' DAP FINALLY SHOWS ITS REAL POLITICAL FACE
Written by P Ramasamy
KUALA LUMPUR (Politics Now!) - Housing and local government minister Nga Kor Ming just confirmed that local council elections are not his ministry’s priority.
In other words, he refused to back the proposal of his senior party colleague, Tan Kok Wai, who is the Kuala Lumpur DAP chairman and Cheras MP.
More than a week ago, Tan called for the introduction of local council elections by starting with Kuala Lumpur.
However, he was criticised by Malay nationalists who said that local elections would not benefit the Malays but the non-Malays, particularly, the Chinese.
Since the Chinese dominate the urban areas, having local government elections might complicate the racial situation in the country.
These Malay nationalists refused to consider why the Malay political parties in the Malay heartlands are not keen to have local elections.
Since ethnicity is not an issue, why the fear? Is it fear of democracy, or the invisible Chinese?
I can understand the position of the Malay nationalists in Umno and in Perikatan Nasional (PN), but no DAP or PKR leaders have emerged to support Tan’s idea.
Tan’s own colleagues in DAP have failed to come forward to support his proposal.
What is so wrong about the noble idea of local government elections?
After the hot and acrimonious debate was just about to subside, Nga emerged to say that the government has other priorities than local government elections.
Why Nga had to wait so long to have a say on the issue remains a mystery.
It is obvious that DAP is divided on the question of local government elections. Gone are the days when the party had local government elections as its top priority. Election campaigns invariably raised the issue of local government elections.
Now, with power and positions, the political scenario has changed.
I think Tan raised the issue of local government elections out of frustration. But, unfortunately, he had no takers in the party.
Under attack from the nationalists, Tan could not defend himself. The party abandoned him completely.
It is a shame that Nga did not come to the rescue of his colleague, Tan.
Instead, he completely undermined Tan by saying that local government elections are not the government’s priority.
Maybe Nga should spell out the priorities of the government.
Is it about enjoying the rewards of power and positions?
Is it about DAP, with 40 MPs, performing the role of an appendage to the government?
Essentially, it is not about Tan’s proposal for local government elections or the dismissal of their priority by Nga.
It is more about the political trajectory of DAP that stood for democracy and justice in the country.
By side-stepping the crucial principled political issues, the party is slowly but surely shedding its old pretensions.
Written by P Ramasamy, an ex-DAP leaders and the former deputy chief minister of Penang
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DAP SLAPS ITSELF IN THE FACE - NOW LOCAL GOVT ELECTIONS ONLY A "MAYBE IN 10 YEARS' TIME" - AS UMNO & PAS BRING OUT THEIR FAVE BOGEYMAN - THAT LOCAL POLLS WILL MAKE MALAYS LOSE THEIR POLITICAL DOMINANCE TO THE CHINESE
posted by politics now! on December 28, 2023
Written by Stan Lee, Politics Now!
KUALA LUMPUR (Politics Now!) - It looks like the DAP is bailing out on yet another promise to voters - this time by insisting local council election is not a priority and "maybe in 10 years' time" Malaysians might finally get a taste of better, more targeted and efficient governance.
“Our country has just recovered from political upheaval, so now is the time to calm the political situation and focus on work that can benefit the public," DAP's housing and local government minister Nga Kor Ming told reporters on Thursday (Dec 28).
“Everything will happen at the right time. Local council elections … are not the ministry’s priority at the moment,” he said, adding that his ministry is now focussed on rolling out 5,000 public facilities like playgrounds, toilets and hawker centres each year.
“Maybe in 10 years when the ministry completes 50,000 public facilities … maybe that’s the time (to have local council elections),” he said in jest.
FACTUALLY WRONG & RACIST
Local elections in Malaysia were suspended in the 1960s and replaced by a system of appointed heads, with mayors of city councils as well as presidents of municipal and district councils being appointed by the state governments.
On Dec 17, Kuala Lumpur DAP chairman and Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai called on the federal government to start local government elections in the capital city first to bolster democracy.
However, the suggestion was immediately panned as “insensitive and provocative” by Dr Akmal Saleh, the youth chief of ally party Umno.
It didn't take long before other Malay-centric parties, especially from the opposition, to jump on the bandwagon - labelling local elections as anti-Malay and would allow the Malaysian Chinese to grab their political dominance.
In a post on X on Monday, Pas commissioner Azhar Yahya warned local council elections would result in "monopoly" by the Malaysian Chinese.
“What guarantees are there that Malays will win seats and have a majority voice to ensure that the rights and privileges of Islam and Malays are preserved as stipulated in Article 3 of the Federal Constitution?” wrote Azhar.
Pas Youth chief Azmer Syazwan also claimed that Kok Wai's call has triggered “disharmony among the people” - lodging a police report against the DAP man for sparking "racial tensions".
In retaliation, the youth wing of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's PKR party has lodged its own police report - counter-claiming that the Pas commissioner's comments were not only "factually wrong" but was itself racist.
Wangsa Maju police chief Ashari Abu Samah confirmed receiving the PKR man's report, revealing that the case had been referred to the Bukit Aman classified crime investigation unit as it touches on 3R (race, religion and royalty) issues.
Written by Stan Lee, Politics Now!
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