Kit Siang pours scorn on claims that 60% of Malays unhappy with Pakatan

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 2 Feb 2019 12:10PM · 4 Comments

DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang says if anything, it is non-Muslims who should be unhappy with the Pakatan Harapan government for failing to live up to the GE14 hype. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Afif Abd Halim, February 2, 2019.

DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang today dismissed a survey, which said 60% of Malay voters are unhappy with Pakatan Harapan, as failure to reflect the real situation in the country.

The Ilham Centre/Penang Institute survey reflects a disconnect on the ground since “not even 1% of non-Muslims believe that they are now in control of the government and that DAP is calling the shots in Putrajaya”, the Iskandar Puteri MP said in a statement.

The survey polled 2,614 Malay respondents, including Sabah and Sarawak, between October 24 and December 24 after PH took over in May 2018.

The government, the respondents said, is not serious about the “Malay agenda”, including upholding Malay rights and Islam as the official religion.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad also said only a small number of Malays are unhappy with PH.

If the Ilham Centre/Penang Institute survey is a correct reflection of the situation in the country, correspondingly non-Muslims should be supportive of PH since they are supposedly in control of the government, Lim said.

Instead, he said, if a poll is to be held today among non-Muslims, it will show an increase in dissatisfaction with DAP and PH because of their failure to live up to the hype of a change in government in the 14th general election.

In another survey last August, PH is said to have only secured 17% of Malay votes in GE14 and if the latest survey is correct, the pact has nearly doubled its support among the community to 40%, he said.

Regardless of the result, PH seeks to address the wellbeing of all Malaysians inclusive of race or religion, he said.

“It is important that Pakatan Harapan addresses the grievances and unhappiness of all Malaysians, whether Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Ibans, Orang Ali – or Muslims and non-Muslims.” – February 2, 2019.

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  • 60% of non-Malays are unhappy that 60% of Malays are unhappy with PH. Reading the comments on the BM version of Malaysiakini, it would be easy to conclude that 95% of Malays are racist and xenophobic.

    Posted 5 years ago by Gerard Lourdesamy · Reply

  • BTN has destroyed the malay mindset. Malays hv become more Ritual and LESS HUMAN.

    Posted 5 years ago by Tharan Singh · Reply

  • lham Centre Institution of Survey are malicious in intent. Their distorted version of survey are deviously hell bent on sustaning ketuanan and using racist approach to achieve their end result. Since the last couple of years they are willingly supplying fictatious data without anyone validating their survey results. PH Government should start probing into their researh done and authenticate with anoher independent survey.

    Posted 5 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

    • PH should also start to buck up. Eventho' the survey result may not be thoroughly correct but it is not wrong to say generally the Malaysian are not too happy with performances of PH in administrating the country. The economic well being as per family are left lots to be desired. Basic necessities of food stuff pricing are not going down from the high and infact are still going up. The Domestic Affairs Ministry re sstting on their ass and not at all serious in monitoring the pice index inorder to put check on the unscrupulous middle man and retail business man. The health care is atrocious in Government hospital where waiting period are long and lack of proper medicine to dispense. There are so many jobless medical graduates , why are they not being registered into good use be it in GP or assistant so that queue of patients could be shorten. The Health Ministry should seriously look into the greed of medical practioners in the private hospital. It is never a secret that the specialists in Private hosital are only keen in fleecing those who comes in with company borne account or insurance coverage where simple surgery are going up the ceiling in cost. Even those who unfortunately have seek private medical care are feeling the pinch as one cannot afford to be sick twice for the family savings and heirlooms will go to this heartless specialists in the private hospital. Enact a law on the limit on cost and charges for private hospital to operate and not at their fancy.

      Posted 5 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply