Islamic party PAS backed an opposition plan to reform positive discrimination policies for Malays, saying they were unfair to minorities.
Anwar Ibrahim has said that the discrimination policies which give majority Malays benefits in education, housing and business would be sidelined in the five states the opposition now controls.
He said the New Economic Policy (NEP) championed by the ruling UMNO would be replaced with a system to boost poor Malaysians whether they be Malay, ethnic Chinese or Indian.
"There are many aspects of the New Economic Policy which are good and can be implemented, but its failure is because of Umno's abuse of power, corruption and double standards," PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang said.
"We will keep plans to help the poor Malays and the underprivileged, but we cannot rob non-Malays of their rights in the name of protecting Malay rights," he said.
Hadi Awang said the unfair elements would be jettisoned, but he did not specify exactly how the policy would now operate in the areas under PAS control.
Hadi Awang also said PAS-led state governments would implement an open-tender system for government contracts similar to that announced by new Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.
Abdul Hadi said PKR was now acting as a mediator as the parties attempt to cobble together coalitions in newly acquired states.
Abdul Hadi said PKR was now acting as a mediator as the parties attempt to cobble together coalitions in newly acquired states.
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whoever that is chosen, we all got to respect decision of the sultan. wasnt it agreed upfront by the 3-men that they'll abide by sultan decision? so why w/ all the backtracking-hoolaboo of no-dap-cec-mandate-for-pas-menteri-besar-in-perak?
2 things here that dont bode well for me.
one, is the above. they collectively agreed to accept sultan decision & they got to honor that. isnt broken promises makes us reject BN in the 1st place?
two, sultan & raja is our highest institution. it is in the rukun negara.
its not about races or who has the largest number of seats.
we all know the rakyat voted for a change & no more BN coalition. hey, given the momentum - it could even been anyone fielded against the BN candidate that day, and BN will still lose. the last thing that we want to see is intolerable differences. instead, use that differences constructively in working together to create ruling gov that we all voted for.
so what now w/ this no-mandate-thingy? will there be an alternative gov or not in perak? pls dont disappoint us.
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