Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has demanded an apology and retraction from the Star over a wrongly attributed quote from his debate with MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek.
In a statement today, Lim said that the quote appeared under an article called “What they said” which appeared on page six of theStar today.
Lim denied that he had said: “We do not agree the Prime Minister must always be Malay because we want the people to decide”.
Although Lim accepts that the Star will present a partisan slant and “biased report” of the debate because it is owned by MCA, he cannot accept the invention of quotes which he never said.
“This quote attributed to me is false and untrue because no reference whatsoever was ever made by me on this issue during the debate.
“As this debate was conducted in Mandarin, I would prefer to believe that this was a simple mistake in comprehension by an English newspaper, notwithstanding the Star being owned by MCA,” he said.
Lim has demanded that the Star publish a full retraction and an apology in a prominent section of the newspaper on the same page six.
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