Blog Statement by Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya
on Tuesday, 26th August 2008:
Permatang Pauh voters - tryst with
destiny
Polling for the Permatang Pauh by-election
has just started.
This a tryst with destiny for the voters of Permatang Pauh. They have
the opportunity to make history for themselves, 27 million Malaysians
and future generations for a new Malaysia.
Let the Permatang Pauh by-election mark the rise of a pioneer generation
of Bangsa Malaysia to herald the beginning of the new politics of Bangsa
Malaysia to liberate Malaysians from the divisive and negative politics
of race and graft of the Barisan Nasional.
In the past 10 days, UMNO and Barisan Nasional leaders pulled out all
the stops to conduct the dirtiest, most disgusting and dishonourable
election campaign in the 51-year history of nation, breaking all
election laws against money politic and violating all moral and ethical
principles of a clean and honest election campaign.
As I said in two eve-of-polling ceramahs last night, there is no doubt
of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim being re-elected as MP for Permatang Pauh
and his return to Parliament after an absence of a decade.
The only question is Anwar's majority. I will not be satisfied unless it
is an even bigger majority than Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail's
13,398-vote majority in the March 8 "political tsunami" – to trigger a
mini political tsunami in Malaysia by itself!
Let us be a witness to PP's tryst with destiny.
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Lim
Kit Siang, DAP
Parliamentary leader & MP for Ipoh Timor
http://dapmalaysia.org