Malays won't be fooled in GE14, says Dr Mahathir

Kamles Kumar Diyana Ibrahim Kamles Kumar, Diyana Ibrahim Updated 6 years ago · Published on 4 Feb 2018 5:45PM · 5 Comments

Pakatan chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad speaking during a Ponggal celebration in Kapar today. He says Malays will not be fooled into voting for BN in GE14. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Najjua Zulkefli, February 4, 2018.

MALAYS are not easily fooled and they will vote against Barisan Nasional in the next elections, Pakatan Harapan (PH) chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.

“This government believes that Malays will support the government because they said the Malays are easily bribed. But I don’t think so. I think this time the Malays will turn against the present government,” he said at a Ponggal celebration in Kapar today.

The former prime minister told the largely Indian crowd that Malays would be able to see through the government’s ploy to divide the races by redrawing the electoral boundaries, which he said would backfire in the long run.

“This government is dividing the people according to race. They have redrawn the boundaries of constituencies so that they could separate the Malays from the Chinese and Indians,” he said, referring to the Election Commission’s redelineation exercise that has been criticised for allowing gerrymandering and malapportionment.

He added that the Chinese and Indian communities would doing Malaysia a favour if they turned against the current government.

Dr Mahathir said Malaysia had always been a peaceful country despite having different races.

“Malaysia is a multiracial country. In other palaces, the mix of races results in a lot of conflict. Incidents of violence in Malaysia is very minimal,” he said.

Dr Mahathir is PH’s prime minister candidate if the opposition wins the general election. He has hinted that he might stand in either Putrajaya, Kubang Pasu or Langkawi.

Today, the 92-year-old challenged Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin to contest against him in Langkawi.

“Ask him to contest against me in Langkawi”.

He was responding to the Youth and Sports Minister’s claim that Dr Mahathir could not have developed the popular island during his time in the government without Umno’s support and BN’s machinery. – February 4, 2018.

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  • Malay, indian or chinese, i think Dr.Mahathir's opinion is based on the fact that all the malaysian races are principled people, who treat other just like they treat themselves, and thus they they will be outraged at the thought that anyone can be so unscrupulous in acting for their self interest. I am not convinced that the malaysian races will be so outraged. I am to the opinion that the different malaysian races will be ok with the idea that you can treat other people unlike the way treat yourself if it is in your interest to do and if you can get
    away with it. If they have any objections to such action by BN, it is because they think they stand to lose,
    not because they are against it as a matter of principle. If BN just compensates the parties or race that stands to lose by its moves in some other way, i think the affected parties or groups will be ok with BN. I think
    the only important question here is, will BN be able to compensate the people who are adversely affected by its moves, not whether Malaysians are such a principled people, that if they only come know that someone is acting unfairly to their advantage, they will be against it as a matter of conscience. I wouldn't bet a cent on the conscience of malaysians.

    Posted 6 years ago by Nehru Sathiamoorthy · Reply

  • ...... so say the ultra r@cist hypocrite .... did you protect the minority races during your administration?? ..... did you not in the guise of banking consolidation, "killed off" Chinese controlled banks, eg ....... MUI, Hock Hua, BHL, Southern Bank, etc ....... and in the '60s - 80s' ...... Maybank, UMBC, Ban Chiang, etc ....????

    Posted 6 years ago by Malaysian First · Reply

  • If Mahathir is proven right, he will go down in history as THE Malay political leader for a long time. No one will come close, not Tunku and his wisdom even. BUT if he is wrong, then he will be known as the undoing of the Malays when it falls apart.

    Posted 6 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • The issue is will Hadi's PAS voters be fooled by them?

    Posted 6 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • Dr Mahathir is not staging a comeback so he can be PM again. He is 93 for f***'s sake. He is here to enable regime change. He is here to return power to the people after 60 years of UMNO failure and corruption.

    Posted 6 years ago by Ramli Taro · Reply