Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim told a Pakatan Rakyat seminar yesterday on the two-party system that Malaysia must move from the forms of representation to the substance of democratic experience to give validity to the nation’s founding constitution.
Speaking to several score leaders from PKR, PAS and DAP, the component parties of Pakatan, at the seminar in Kuala Lumpur organised to infuse them with a sense of mission, Anwar held that the country’s democratic beginnings were not sustained because of servile subscription to certain shibboleths.
From FreeMalaysiaToday
By YL Chong
SEREMBAN: Parti Keadilan Rakyat adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today acknowledged that the Barisan Nasional government was making changes but said these were being delivered in doses that were too small considering the “big scale corruption and leakages” that were continuing.
The government would implement programmes which bring only small benefits to the people and the local mainstream media would highlight these projects, but ignoring the wayward spending by the government ministers and the huge losses due to corruption, leakages and malpractices, he added.
Dari TV Selangor
Sistem politik dwi-parti akan hanya punyai kredibiliti jika Pakatan Rakyat berjaya menjadikan negeri-negeri yang ditadbirnya sebagai pemangkin urus tadbir yang cemerlang, dan pembela golongan miskin.
Sehubungan itu, Ketua Pembangkang Anwar Ibrahim menggesa gagasan itu supaya bertungkus-lumus memastikan Selangor, Pulau Pinang, Kedah dan Kelantan menjadi contoh model pentadbiran mapan untuk diteladani Barisan Nasional.
“Kerajaan negeri perlu menunjukkan teladan melalui dasar-dasar yang dirumuskan. Dasar yang memberi penekanan kepada urustadbir yang baik, kepedulian kepada yang lemah, dan memelihara sumber alam dan bumi,” kata Anwar.
Mantan Timbalan Perdana Menteri ini berkata demikian dalam ucaptama di simposium ‘Pakatan Rakyat dan Pembikinan Sistem Dua Parti’ di Kuala Lumpur hari ini. Anwar Ibrahim menegaskan keputusan PRU-12 lalu menunjukkan rakyat mahu sistem kerajaan dipulihkan, dan bukannya salinan pendua kerajaan Umno-BN. (more…)
