Monday, November 12, 2007

Fair Election

Opposition trying to drag King into politics, says Pak Lah

By MUGUNTAN VANAR and RUBEN SARIO
newsdesk@thestar.com.my
KOTA KINABALU: Saturday’s street protest in Kuala Lumpur was an attempt to drag the royalty into opposition politics, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.
The Prime Minister said the illegal gathering of thousands of people that ended with a memorandum being handed over to an Istana Negara official was an attempt by the opposition to “trap” the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
“I believe the King is more mature. The royalty understands and will not be trapped by their (the opposition’s) politics,” he said after opening the Parti Bersatu Sabah 22nd congress yesterday.
Abdullah described the illegal gathering that also saw the involvement of five opposition parties as a political gimmick.
“When the opposition thinks the elections will be called soon they do all sorts of activities to win support; that’s normal,” he added.
The gathering was organised by the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih), a group of 60 non-governmental organisations and political parties and it began with thousands gathering at five meeting points in Kuala Lumpur to join in a march to the Istana Negara.
When one group of protesters refused police orders to disperse as they approached the Masjid Jamek area at about 2.30pm, teargas and water cannons were used on them.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said police exercised restraint when controlling the crowd.
Yesterday, the Prime Minister said he was satisfied that police had acted responsibly in handling the situation effectively.
He said many ordinary folk opposed the street protest as it caused them much inconvenience.
“Police have the duty to prevent any untoward incident and they will need to take preventive measures such as putting up road blocks. This causes inconvenience but it is necessary,” he added.
To a question on Sabah’s longstanding illegal immigrant problem, Abdullah said it could only be addressed with the people’s cooperation, by not providing shelter or job opportunities or to immediately report to authorities any such foreigners in their midst.
“Malaysians are always very kind and this becomes a problem sometimes when dealing with these illegals,” he said, adding that there were also those who adopted a “don’t care” attitude towards the problem.
Later, Abdullah attended the Deepavali open house hosted by Sabah MIC at the Likas Sports Complex multi-purpose hall before opening the Liberal Democratic Party congress.

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This is the news today. What is politics to our goverment? I don,t see the harm of giving the memo to our king. I mean he is our king right! He should know what is heppening in his ruling country. First thing comes to our PM's mind is the opposition. This clearly shows he is not intrested in the citizen but his seat and cabinet. Election has to do with us the citizen voting for who should be our leader of malaysia and what kind of" politics" is this, like our PM said. I just don't understand what is he trying to tell. "I believe the king is more mature". Is he? Let's see. People will not simply gather to make a protest and march right to the palace to pass a memo. I primary school student will understand that something is wrong. Aah malas lah nak cakap. I dah tak tahan and don't know what to do also.

2 comments:

KahJoon said...

i disagree with what BERSIH had done. i have my own views on this which i will discuss later on. just here to state my standpoint. hehe.

Mc Chaoz said...

Not only you. You see the way our PM speaks. The only thing he has done correctly is he attended the Deepavali Open House.