Dyana rues Gerakan, BN think people vote by their sexual urges

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While Gerakan's call for more women candidates is worthy, it is lamentably for the wrong reasons, said DAP youth leader Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud.

"In Pakatan Harapan, we encourage intelligent, dedicated and brave young women to join politics because they are capable, patriotic and hardworking; making them winnable despite their physical attributes.

"Meanwhile, the Gerakan leader and many others who are on his side of the fence prefer to sexually objectify women in politics with cheap rhetoric as if the Malaysian voters vote according to their sexual urges instead of their brains," said Dyana in a statement today.

She was responding to Gerakan's annual general assembly yesterday where she was referred to as nothing but a "young Malay girl".

Gerakan legal and human rights bureau chief Baljit Singh in his speech urged the party to field more young, sexy women to boost their chances at the ballot box.

The party won only one parliamentary seat in the last general election, and won one more when party president Mah Siew Keong defeated Dyana by a razor thin margin in the Teluk Intan by-election.

"I appreciate the fact that he wants to encourage youth and women participation in Malaysian politics, however, Baljit Singh has a very different idea compared to DAP and Pakatan Harapan," said the DAP Youth executive member.

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-Mkini