I believe the Pakatan Harapan coalition is worth saving, says Kit Siang

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 25): DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang (pictured) has said that “worth saving” even though “it is not perfect”.

In a statement released today, Lim said “Pakatan Harapan is worth saving as no other political grouping in Malaysia is committed to restore Tunku Abdul Rahman’s vision of a Malaysia as ‘a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world’”.

He went on to say that he did “not agree with all the things done in the name of the Pakatan Harapan Government in the past 20 months, but as I said to DAP leaders yesterday, so long as DAP leaders remain true, loyal and steadfast to their principles and objectives to make Malaysia a great nation, and do not go against their conscience, they must be prepared to be unpopular and even misunderstood”.

He explained that “the alternative to the Malaysian Dream that we are trying to achieve of the country becoming a Tiger Economy and a world top-class nation is a Malaysian Nightmare of the reversion to a global kleptocracy, a failed and rogue state, and even worse, the advent of a kakistocracy where the worst, the most unscrupulous and the most unprincipled elements of society occupy the high offices of state in the nation”.

The law maker for Iskandar Puteri also described those trying to topple the Pakatan Harapan coalition as “by irresponsible political opportunists”.

“The Harapan government is not perfect, but we are set in this direction of a New Malaysia, and no other political group has made a similar commitment to continue in this direction in Malaysian nation-building,” he added.