Najib's rejection of local council elections is likely going to affect the Election Commission's decision on the request submitted by the Penang State Government to restore the third vote.
Najib gave the flimsiest excuse to reject the need to restore democracy at the local councils.
He claimed that reviving local government elections would only give rise to politicking at the local government level and would not improve services for the people.
He said the Barisan Nasional Government was putting its attention raising the level of services to the people and having local government elections would not necessarily help towards this effort.
Najib gave the flimsiest excuse to reject the need to restore democracy at the local councils.
He claimed that reviving local government elections would only give rise to politicking at the local government level and would not improve services for the people.
He said the Barisan Nasional Government was putting its attention raising the level of services to the people and having local government elections would not necessarily help towards this effort.
The fact that all local councillors are political appointees makes the whole process even more political. Politicking is worse when political warlords and their 'mah chais' (followers) are lobbying hard to fill up the appointments.
Deteriorating service quality and misappropriation of public funds are the two most important reasons why tax payers and voters would like to have their say on who should be elected to represent them at the local authority level.
Najib's rejection of local council elections is also a rejection of democracy.
I have said earlier that Barisan should convince us that it is pro-democracy and not otherwise. PM Najib's stand on local council elections says it all.
As a proponent of the third vote, I am prepared to reject any Barisan candidates in my constituency until a full democracy is restored at the local council level.
This is a dark day for Malaysian democracy. He should say no to all racist bodies and not to local council elections.
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Najib is afraid of everything !!
from his wife Rosmah to Madey to Ibrahim Ali, now even to local council election !!
Tak boleh pakai punya PM !!
Goh Wei Liang
Wanna raise the level of services to the people..?
Forget it!!!
Their "plucked up" attitude has been like THAT for many decades. Even "HAVE TO" tell them to smile when servicing the rakyat. Where got....?
All current services IS doing injustice to PM's ........
"Performance Now, 1st People" or the other way around...
How can he says yes???He has everything to lose lah...
PM always thinks that LOTS OF MONEY is need for election. So, he "does not want" to waste rakyat's money further.
This guy Mr. C4, ooppps PM is actually worried that if the local elections results go in favour of Pakatan Rakyat, the rakyat will get bolder and vote for more Pakatan candidates in future elections, especially the 13th general elections.Unfortunately, in turning down Pakatan's request to hold local elections, Umno will be viewed as being against giving the rakyat the opportunity to exercise their democratic right to choose their representatives.
We have heard and seen many cases of council 'chieftains' and members wielding extraordinary power and amassing wealth and living lavishly. The people must be given their democratic rights to purge these 'local warlords', and the only way it can be done is through the proper process of holding elections for local government positions.
Another classic example that his self proclaimed 1Malaysia is all talk, talk and just talk.
Over-politicking and thus affecting the delivery of services???
Hey, doesn't that sound too familiar? Is he referring to his own power-crazy team???
Even Gerakan, BN component don't agree with Najib.
See Malaysiakini.
'No local elections': Gerakan, Pakatan tick off PMYip Ai Tsin
Mar 9, 10
2:39pmPrime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's statement today that it was unnecessary to hold local government elections has brought a howl of protest from inside and outside the BN coalition.
In an immediate reaction, Kedah Gerakan Youth chief Tan Keng Liang said while he understands the premier's concern that such elections would lead to too much 'politicking', the “advantages of local government elections outweigh its rejection”.
Tan also urged the federal government to assist the Pakatan states to hold the local government elections, including making amendments to the relevant laws to allow states that opt for local government elections to do so.
Stating his reasons, Tan said such elections would serve as a necessary check-and-balance mechanism against the policies and conduct of local government administrators, who are mostly civil servants.
“It would also create democracy at local level and promote transparency in the administration of local councils,” Tan said in a statement.
In addition, Tan said, the performance of local councillors can be assessed by the residents and they can be booted out if their performance was not satisfactory.
“Those candidates who do not perform and prefer to spend more time campaigning and 'politicking' would likely be rejected by the local people.”
“I hope that our prime minister would reconsider to allow local government elections in Pakatan states. Let the people compare the administration of local councils in states which adopted such elections with those states without them,” Tan added.
On Saturday, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said his DAP-led government wanted to restore elections in the state's two municipal councils and he had written a letter to the Election Commission urging the agency to organise them.
Tan subsequently challenged other Pakatan states to follow Penang in order to fulfill their election pledge to hold local government elections.
A day later, Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim said that his government would follow Penang.
Umno 'trapped in the past'
Meanwhile, PKR's Seri Setia state assemblyperson Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said it was "too premature" for Najib to dismiss local council elections before the EC had decided on the issue.
"Obviously, Umno is trapped in the past," he quipped, when contacted today.
Nazmi (left) stressed that the accountability and slashing of red tape as a result of the polls would help enhance local governance.
According to him, local council elections could be found in all "mature democracies" around the world.
He also noted that Malaysia had local elections before the Malaysia-Indonesia 'Confrontation' in 1964.
Concurring with Nazmi, DAP's Jawi state assemblyperson Tan Beng Huat said that local elections would ensure that those elected will perform well in their tasks.
He also urged the PM to be "more open minded" in addressing this issue, and reminded him that elected representatives are serving the people and not politicians.
The more he says the more he expose himself. I wouldn't lift my hand to shake his.
Najib and former PM AAB - almost same flimsy and flip flop.
1Malaysia with to many version.One for Umno pocket and the rest for their little napoleon.
rajraman666.I reject the politician who flip flop and giving flimsy excuses.
We can be racial but can't be racist.
Thank u.
Of course what he did is to be expected, they never really want the people's voice to be heard that is why they always break up peaceful rallies of the people. They only want the people to be subservient and obedient so they can rape and plunder as they like without any accountability.
The public is puzzled why Najib is so fearful of the voters to exercise their third votes. If lucky, the BN may even capture the two municipal councils in Penang to counter the the influence of Pakatan's State Government, and then speedily call the GE13 to regain the BN's 2/3 majority of the Parliament seats.
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