Media statement by Lim Guan Eng in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 23^rd February 2012: 

Chua Soi Lek's refusal to release his own debate transcript will only expose himself that he focused on making personal attacks, lies and adopted divisive tactics  

Selangor MCA's police report against me yesterday only highlights MCA's desperation to cover up MCA President Chua Soi Lek's performance of making personal attacks, lies and divisive tactics during the historic Mandarin debate on 18.2.2012 "Is The 2-party system becoming a 2-race system"? Making another 10 or 100 police reports against me by Selangor MCA can not hide the fact that Chua has so far refused to release his own debate transcripts in Bahasa Malaysia and English.

Chua Soi Lek's refusal to release his own debate transcript in Bahasa Malaysia and English will only prove to non-Chinese speaking Malaysians that he focused on making personal attacks, lies and adopted divisive tactics during the historic Mandarin. Not only did Chua made personal attacks against me during the historic debate on 18.2.2012, even his predecessor Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat was also not spared.

I had refused to trade personal insults or indulged in personal attacks with Chua during the debate as I believed that a debate should be a contest of ideas, ideals and principles. Chua knows releasing his own debate transcripts will only expose himself as indulging in baseless personal attacks against me as well as Ong Tee Keat. Worse Chua will also be exposed for his divisive tactics and lies against the record of PR.

MCA and Chua are using their control over the BN mass media to whitewash Chua's personal attacks and twist the outcome of the debate into lies. Even the Star was compelled to apologise to me in their enthusiasm to whitewash Chua's performance. Facts and figures do not lie. Let the debate transcripts speak for themselves.

In the interests of historical veracity, Chua should emulate what I have done by releasing the debate transcripts in Bahasa Malaysia and English for the benefit of non-Chinese speaking Malaysians. Yesterday I have released my debate transcripts in Bahasa Malaysia. Today I release my debate transcripts in English which clearly showed that unlike Chua I did not launch any personal attacks against Chua's past or record.

*Lim Guan Eng, Penang Chief Minister