MAHATHIR MAHU KERJA SAMPAI MATI?

Beberapa akhbar menyebut kenyataan Mahathir di Gua Musang setelah menerima satu dorongan dari bekas musuhnya di Gua Musang.

'Saya orang tua. Memandang kepada usia saya, saya sepatutnya sudah bersara. Tetapi orang masih menyuruh saya terus berkhidmat. Saya fikir saya perlu melakukan KSM - kerja sampai mati'

Nampaknya Mahathir sekali lagi ingin mengengkari keputusan awalnya untuk tidak berkhidmat lagi selepas penggal ini. Terpaksalah Dollah Badawi menunggu lagi jika begini. Berita ini seperti tidak baik untuk negara tetapi sebenarnya baik untuk BA. Mahathir hanyalah memudahkan lagi kerja BA (dan kerja Ku Li juga). Dia terlupa agaknya Ku Li sekarang bukan Ku Li dulu. Bukankah Ku Li hadir sewaktu di BBM dulu dalam satu program mengkritik beliau secara terbuka?

BBM kini sudah diam seribu bahasa. Mahathir memang tidak senang dengannya. Permit untuk BBM bersuara sudahpun diharamkan semuanya sejak ia mengejutkan ramai pemerhati kerana bimbang ia akan menular di perhimpunan agung Umno nanti untuk menyingkir Mahathir.

MAHATHIR MENGEMIS DI GUA MUSANG?

Yang anihnya Mahathir tidak menghukum sesiapa pun di dalam BBM walaupun ia melanggar disiplin parti. Kalau dulu dia menyembelih habis Zahid Hamidi dia terdiam sekali bila BBM menarik tali. Inilah gambaran sebenar kekuatan Mahathir masakini. Beliau amat bimbang untuk berkonfrontasi di saat ini - maka Gua Musang yang djejakkinya dulu pada tahun 1982 sanggup diredah kembali untuk mengemis populariti. Sebenarnya Ku Li sudah menang dengan Mahathir bertandang ke sini....

Mahathir sebenarnya merupakan seorang pemimpin yang PALING TIDAK POPULAR dalam sejarah Umno. Tentunya Ku Li masih belum lupa muslihat Mahathir sehingga beliau tertewas akibat tektik kotor cawangan yang tidak sah dan beberapa silap mata jijik ketika membilang undi (waktu solat jumaat). Malah Ku Li belum lupa bagaimana gambar beliau disiar memakai tengkolok di malam pilihanraya sehinga Semangat 46 putus terus bersemangatnya untuk terus menyaingi Umno kerana amat teruk aibnya.

MAHATHIR MENCURI TELUR DISIANG HARI

Mahathir telah memperlekehkan institusi parlimen dan mencemarnya beberapa kali pada tahun ini seolah-olah mahu lari dari realiti beliau telah pun gagal selama ini. Lim Kit Siang mencatat betapa 'kuatnya' Mahathir masakini sehingga menempelak demokrasi berparlimen:

1. Mahathir mengumumkan pakej rangsangan RM3 bilion di luar parlimen. Ia sepatutnya dibentang di dalam parlimen untuk diperdebatkan kerana banyak pihak terlibat.
   
   

2. Mahathir tidak memberi masa secukupnya kepada MP (ahli parlimen) untuk menatap dan mengkaji OPP3. Seolah-olah tidak mahu ia dihalusi atau bimbang diserang kerana terlalu banyak kegagalan di hari ini.
   

3. Mahathir juga enggan membentang lapuran NECC2 di Parlimen untuk dikaji serta dibincang di parlimen sedangkan NECC ditubuhkan semata-mata untuk menyampaikan syur kepada OPP3.
   
   

4. Mahathir teramat celupar menuduh pembangkang dan kemarahan rakyat sewaktu pembentangan OPP3 sedangkan impian OPP3 mahu membina masyarakat yang bersatu dan tidak menuduh orang sesuka hati tanpa bukti.

Jika Mahathir berkerja sampai mati pun tidak mengapa kerana nyawa Umno semakin di dalam bahaya. Beliau asyik memberikan markah percuma kepada BA sehingga bimbang Lee Kuan Yew dibuatnya.

Saya tertarik untuk memberi komen tambah oleh Editor mengenai lawatan 'ganjil' Lee Kuan Yew ke Malaysia satu ketika dulu.

Singapura yang lebih kaya pun tidak berani membina projek yang gila-gila tetapi Mahathir berbelanja seolah-olah minyak negara tidak akan kering selama-lamanya padahal rezab di dasar laut cuma 15 tahun sahaja. Jika Mahathir kuat dan selesa Lee Kuan Yew tidak perlu bersusah payah datang berkereta ke Malaysia satu ketika dulu untuk menemui Mahathir. Cuba fikirkan mengapa pertemuan mereka begitu berahsia isi kandungannya.......

-Kapal Berita-

Rencana Rujukkan:

Mahathir to stay on until next general elections

Media Conference Statement by DAP National Chairman Lim Kit Siang at DAP PJ Hqrs on Monday, 9th April 2001 at 12 noon:

Mahathir seems to have reversed his earlier decision that this will his last term and has now decided to lead the Barisan Nasional in next general election as Prime Minister defending his sixth term

==

The significance of Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad's first visit to Gua Musang since 1982 for the opening of the Gua Musang UMNO division meeting on Saturday was not the olive branch he offered to his traditional rival, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, but his response to Razaleigh's public call that he remain as UMNO President and Prime Minister until Kelantan and Terengganu are recaptured by UMNO.

When asked to comment on Razaleigh's call, Mahathir expressed his gratitude to those calling on him to continue leading Umno and the country and said that he is prepared "to do a KSM - kerja sampai mati - or work until I die'.

Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi would apparently have to wait for another three or four years until after the next general elections before he could ever hope to become the fifth Prime Minister of Malaysia, and there is no guarantee that even if UMNO and Barisan Nasional manage to hang on to power in the next general elections, that Abdullah would be the successor to Mahathir.

Although Mahathir had publicly said that this would be his last term as Prime Minister, and before the last general election, had intimated that he would hand over the reins of the Prime Minister to Abdullah in mid-term, the politically astute can sense that Mahathir had begun to change his mind and that he would not so easily relinquish the highest office in the land.

Although this is not good news for the nation's sake, it is the best news from the DAP and Barisan Alternative point of view.

This is because Mahathir has undoubtedly become the most unpopular Prime Minister in the nation's history and even the most unpopular UMNO President in the party's history if there is free and fair party elections in UMNO.

Although Razaleigh has his own reasons and calculations for making his unusual call to Mahathir to remain as Prime Minister and UMNO President until after the next general elections, he is right that Mahathir is the only "strong leader" left in the UMNO and government.

Unfortunately for Malaysia and the people, Mahathir is now "strong" for the wrong reasons, as evident recently in:

1. his increasing contempt for Parliament in refusing to submit the RM3 billion economic stimulus package as pre-emptive counter to the US economic slowdown for parliamentary scrutiny, debate and sanction;
   

2. his refusal to give adequate time to Members of Parliament to study and debate the Third Outline Perspective Plan (OPP3) (2001-2010), which makes a mockery of the National Vision Policy enunciated by OPP3;
   

3. his refusal to table in Parliament the report of the Second National Economic Consultative Council (NECC2) for study and discussion by Parliament and the nation, when the NECC2 was specifically formed to make recommendations on the OPP3; and
   
   

4. the most unsusual nastiness in his speech against the political opposition and dissent in civil society when introducing the OPP3 in Parliament last Tuesday, which has completely clouded OPP3's vision to be a unifying blueprint to build inter-racial unity and an intelligent nation to face the challenges of globalisation in the new century.

There is the danger that having decided to abandon his earlier plan to hand over the office of the Prime Minister to Abdullah this year or next year and to continue into the next general election, Mahathir may also decide on an increasingly authoritarian rule and brook no obstacle to his grand design to continue with the government bailout of crony companies, buckle efforts to restore national and international confidence in the independence of the judiciary and stamp out dissent whether in the political opposition or civil society.

- Lim Kit Siang -

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,35439,00.html?

Kelantan Umno tells Mahathir to stay on

There are those who do not support him, but they feel that he is stillthe only one capable of making positive changes for the country

By Wan Hamidi Hamid
IN KUALA LUMPUR

UNMO members in opposition-controlled Kelantan - including one-time political rival Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah - have called on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad to stay on at the helm, saying he is the only leader capable of making positive changes for the country.

Tengku Razaleigh told reporters here that while many of his friends had admitted to him that they were not pro-Mahathir, they still wanted a strong leader for Malaysia.

'So I personally call on Dr Mahathir to carry on as premier and Umno president to strengthen the country and the party,' he said.

'If he wants to quit when the party is totally strong and could gain a 100 per cent victory in the next general election, then we will leave it to him to decide.'

Tengku Razaleigh made his pledge yesterday at the Gua Musang Umno division meeting in honour of Dr Mahathir's first visit to the area since 1982.

The state is currently controlled by Parti Islam (PAS).

Similar calls for the 75-year-old Dr Mahathir to continue leading the party and the government were made by Umno members in Kedah during his visit to several constituencies there late last month - part of a nationwide tour he has been making.

Umno leaders and members are facing the most crucial period in the party's history following the sacking of former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim in 1998 which split the Malay community.

The opposition, particularly PAS and Anwar's Parti Keadilan Nasional, have been intensifying their attacks on the Premier, telling him to resign.

Umno is currently conducting its divisional meetings nationwide at which grassroots leaders elect new executive committees.

It is expected that there will be a smooth transfer of power or no contest at all for the top post of chairman in 92 of Umno's 165 divisions. However, campaigns for other posts in these and other divisions are likely to be fierce.

Allegations of money politics are rife and analysts have said that such reported practices are giving Umno a bad name.

The allegations have led many Umno members to feel that the party must change for the better.

Tengku Razaleigh, a former finance minister, had challenged Dr Mahathir for the Umno presidency in 1987, but was unsuccessful.

He then formed the Malay opposition Parti Semangat Melayu 46 and had hit out at Dr Mahathir as an opposition MP.

He gave up his battle when he realised that Semangat 46 could not pose a serious challenge to Umno and Dr Mahathir. He then threw in the towel in 1996 and dissolved his party.

He also made up with Dr Mahathir and both he and his supporters were allowed to rejoin Umno.

'I know what I am talking about when I ask Dr Mahathir to stay on. Both of us have a unique relationship,' he said.

'I am not trying to curry favour. I say this from my heart. I believe this is the time for all of us to work together to unite the Malays,' said the Kelantan Prince.

Dr Mahathir, when asked by reporters to respond to the show of support, expressed his gratitude to those calling on him to continue leading Umno and the country.