DAP has ridiculed Muhyiddin Yassin for saying the BN will give greater assistance to those who voted for the ruling coalition, and asks if he is deputy prime minister for only 47 percent of Malaysians.

“Is this what Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak meant when he said he wants Malaysia to become the world’s best democracy, where Malaysian voters are only allowed to exercise their democratic right to vote provided they vote in support of the Umno-BN coalition?” asked DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang.

NONE “Surely, Muhyiddin’s declaration that the BN administration will direct 'greater assistance' towards the communities that backed it during the general election, implying a punitive policy of neglect and discrimination for the 51 percent majority of the popular vote, is the most powerful proof that Najib has a long way to go to prove that he is prime minister of all Malaysians, and not just 47 percent of Malaysians.

“Or do we have a situation where we have Najib who wants to be prime minister of all Malaysians but Muhyiddin only wants to the deputy prime minister for 47 percent of Malaysians?” Lim asked in a statement today.

He was responding to Muhyiddin’s speech last Saturday that BN would continue to give “greater assistance” to communities that had voted for the ruling party.

Chinese the cause of BN's poor showing

The DPM named the “Malays, Indians, bumiputera, Orang Asli, Siamese community as well as those in Sabah and Sarawak” as those that BN will “emphasise” on.

The BN has been blaming its loss of the popular vote in the 13th general election on the Chinese community and has been attacking the community consistently since the May 5 general election.

Lim further ridiculed Muhyiddin’s speech that the government wants to “protect all the institutions that had been established” saying the ruling party was responsible for destroying these very insitutions.

NONE “He has missed the elephant in the room, for it is Umno-BN that must bear the full responsibility for undermining and  subverting the key national institutions in the country in the past three decades.

“Who subverted and undermined the independence, impartiality and integrity of the judiciary, which had earned international plaudits until the judiciary crisis of 1988?” Lim asked.

He cited education and the civil service as other examples of casualties under BN rule.

“Even Najib’s present cabinet is a poor example of the government’s commitment to uphold the constitution, and it is the height of irony that we have a Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of integrity and good governance who is an illegal member of the cabinet, as he has not been sworn in as a senator and properly taken the oath of office...” Lim added.

Address grouses, not racially profile voters, Muhyiddin told