Kit Siang tells Annuar to go for blood test, reiterates he won't be PM

The exchange between Umno leaders and Lim Kit Siang has turned into a bloody affair, with the latter calling on Umno information chief Annuar Musa to go for a blood test.

This is after Umno supreme council member Tajuddin Abdul Rahman claimed that Dr Mahathir Mohamad had lost his Malay etiquette (adab) after being "injected with DAP blood".

"Everyone including Umno leaders must be wondering what blood Tajuddin had been injected with because there is not a more foul-mouthed political leader today than Tajuddin who seemed to have no trace of 'adab orang Melayu' at all.

"Would Annuar agree with Tajuddin's analogy of 'blood injection' for the improper conduct of Umno leaders to the extent they have become the personification not only of kleptocracy but global kleptocracy?" he asked in a statement.

Lim also wondered if Annuar had been affected by "injected blood" for his ongoing campaign to demonise him and Mahathir.

"As there is neither logic nor coherence in Annuar's speech, it may be a good idea for Annuar to go for a blood test," he added in response to the Umno leader lauding Lim for having tamed Mahathir.

Kit Siang's calculation

Lim also responded to Umno leaders, whom he referred to as stooges, who claim that the DAP veteran would be prime minister if Pakatan Harapan wins the next general election.

"Annuar and the Umno stooges are all wrong - as DAP will not be the Harapan party with the largest bloc of MPs after the 14th general election as far as the distribution of the parliamentary seats in Peninsular Malaysia are concerned.

"In the last general election in 2013, the opposition coalition won 89 parliamentary seats in the 222-seat in Parliament, while BN won 133 seats. Out of the 89 seats, DAP won 38 seats (31 in Peninsular Malaysia and seven in Sarawak and Sabah); PKR 30 (28 in Peninsular Malaysia and two in Sabah and Sarawak) and PAS 21 (all in Peninsular Malaysia)," he added.

Lim reiterated that if there is a swing of 10 percent Malay voters and five percent non-Malay voters from BN to Harapan in Peninsular Malaysia in the next polls, Harapan would win 113 of the 165 parliamentary seats, leaving BN with 50 and PAS two.

"In this scenario of 113 Harapan parliamentary seats in Peninsular Malaysia, the distribution could be DAP 32, and the other three Harapan parties 39, 32 and 10 respectively or other possible combinations and permutations, but the political party with the biggest parliamentary bloc in Peninsular Malaysia would be either PKR or Bersatu and not DAP," he added.

Regardless of whatever the final combination and permutation of the distribution of parliament seats among Harapan parties nationwide, Lim said the prime minister would be a Malay and not from DAP.

"And I definitely will not be the prime minister of Malaysia.

"But this will not stop Umno/BN leaders, strategists and cybertroopers from their campaign of fear, lies and falsehoods," he added.- Mkini