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Sunday, May 19, 2013

I will not retire, says Anwar


'But why should I retire? We won. Are Umno people stupid? We won and we will fight together with the people against this robbery, says Anwar at a Penang rally.
GEORGE TOWN: Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim will not retire from active politics any time soon, hinting that he would still be around come the next general election.
The Permatang Pauh MP defied calls for him to retire by claiming that Pakatan Rakyat had actually “won” the 13th general election, only to be robbed by electoral frauds.
He said Pakatan’s popular votes, which were more than Barisan Nasional’s, proved that majority Malaysians have voted for a change of federal government.
Strangely, he claimed that the popular choice of the people had become the opposition while minority choice had formed the government.
Hence, Anwar told a nightly rally here yesterday that he would not heed to quit calls made by his opponents.
Critics have called on Anwar to make good of his pre-election promise to retire and go into lecturing if BN won the polls and retained Putrajaya.
Many cyber commentators have called on Anwar to fulfill his promise for once this time. But Anwar is adamant he would not heed their call.
“Yes I said I would retire from politics if Pakatan loses. Some told me to retire as promised and to fight it out next time.
“But why should I retire? We won. Are Umno people stupid? We won and we will fight together with the people against this robbery.
“We can’t tolerate this rigging, robbery and fraud. We want answers now,” he thundered before a roaring and flag-waving mammoth crowd in Esplanade field.
A total 11,054,577 votes were recorded for federal contest in the just concluded polls on May 5. Pakatan garnered 50.9 or 5,623,984 popular votes against Barisan Nasional’s 47.4% or 5,237,699.
The three parties in Pakatan – Chinese-dominated DAP, Anwar’s PKR and Islamist PAS, collectively won 88 parliamentary seats against BN’s 133 seats.
Pakatan-friendly Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM) won a federal seat in Sungai Siput to make it 89 in the parliamentary opposition bench.
Soon after the polls, Pakatan led by Anwar has been organising rallies across the country to claim that their victory was robbed by electoral frauds and an incompetent Election Commission.
Pakatan leaders also claimed that they were rightful, legitimate winners due to higher popular votes, while hammering BN as a minority government.
Karpal’s threat to walkout
Last night’s rally, organised by the DAP-led Penang government, to introduce the coalition’s state executive councillors and assemblymen, echoed the same Pakatan propaganda.
Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, DAP senior parliamentarians Karpal Singh and Lim Kit Siang and many others touched on the issue.
In the election, the main stakeholder in Putrajaya administration, Umno led in popular votes among individual parties.
Umno secured 29.3% or 3,241,286 popular votes and won 88 federal seats, leaving the second biggest party, the DAP far behind with 15.7% or 1,736,267 popular votes and 38 seats.
Meanwhile, Karpal in his speech vowed to walkout from the DAP if the party joined the BN federal government.
He noted that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s government faced a big problem today due to lack of Chinese representation in the cabinet.
He said it would be difficult for Najib to run a government in long run without a strong Chinese representation due to electoral trashing of BN’s Chinese-based parties, MCA and Gerakan.
Karpal acknowledged that the Chinese community backed the DAP over MCA and Gerakan this time.
However, he insisted that the DAP would not join BN despite growing calls for the party provide the Chinese representation in the federal government.
“There is no way the DAP will join BN. The DAP will never join BN.
“I will be the first to walkout if the DAP joins BN,” stressed the veteran politician.

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