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Monday, May 4, 2015

Dr M not helping Pakatan in by-elections, says Mukhriz

Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir says Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad wants only what’s best for Barisan Nasional and Umno. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Afif Abd Halim, May 4, 2015.Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir says Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad wants only what’s best for Barisan Nasional and Umno. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Afif Abd Halim, May 4, 2015.
There is no way former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the harshest critic of Prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's administration, will ever campaign for Pakatan Rakyat (PR) in the Rompin and Permatang Pauh by-elections, his son said.
Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir said his father’s criticism of the present administration was for the good of Barisan Nasional and Umno.
"All he has said in his statements is based on his own opinion. He still has hopes that BN will win in both Rompin and Permatang Pauh.
Mukhriz, who is Kedah BN and Umno chief, was asked to comment on what he thought of PR politicians quoting his father in the ongoing by-election campaigns.
Polling for the Rompin parliamentary seat will be held tomorrow and Thursday for Permatang Pauh.
Tongue-in-cheek, some opposition politicians have begun to refer to Dr Mahathir as "de facto opposition leader" for his repeated criticism of Najib over debt-laden 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder, cash aid under the 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M) and implementation of the goods and services tax.
Mukhriz said they had seen posters claiming that his father was campaigning for PR and even taking part in the rallies at the Sogo shopping complex in Kuala Lumpur.
"This is all nonsense. We wanted to laugh just looking at them.
"It is just the opposition's naughty strategy. Maybe they don't have other tactics," he said, adding that such materials were meant to confuse the people.
Earlier, Mukhriz said he did not want to talk much about national issues such as those being raised by PR.
He said voters were more concerned with local issues that affected them daily.
"The priority should be the problems faced by the people in the constituency. The people need to think about this, what they want and what they will get out of their elected rep.
"What kind of leader would the people want? One who can settle issues, such as making sure roads in bad condition are resurfaced, surau are repaired and upgraded, and the welfare of the people taken care of.
"So far, are the people happy with the performance and service of their MP?"
Mukhriz said this was why BN was seeing positive response from the people, and said he sensed  that Permatang Pauh folk wanted change this time.
He also said MPs should be responsible for their own constituencies, instead of relying on others to watch over their areas.
"Maybe the PR leaders don't understand the role of an MP. It is not something you can just delegate to others," he said.
PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail is defending the seat, which has long been a stronghold of her husband, opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who is now serving a five-year jail sentence for sodomy.
To counter criticism that she would not be able to serve both Permatang Pauh and the Kajang state seat which she also holds, PR leaders Mohamed Azmin Ali and Lim Guan Eng had declared that they would step in for her.
Azmin said as Selangor menteri besar, he would watch over the Kajang state seat for Dr Wan Azizah while Lim, who is Penang chief minister, said the state government would also help her take care of Permatang Pauh.
Since 1982, the seat has never left Anwar's family even when he was jailed in 1998.
Dr Wan Azizah first won the seat in the 1999 by-election and later retained the seat in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. She quit a few months after the 2008 polls to make way for Anwar's return to politics.
Anwar captured the seat in the August by-election and again in the 2013 general election.
- TMI

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