Prime Minister Najib Razak’s statement that BN will step up efforts to win the “war of perception” can only mean the nation can expect more “lies and falsehoods”, said DAP.

DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang was responding to Najib yesterday attributing BN’s performance in the last general election to the “lies churned out by the opposition through the alternative media”.

NONE The PM, speaking to students in Jakarta, also lamented that people no longer believed the mainstream media.

“Is Najib promising more Umno/BN lies and falsehoods on the cyberspace in the next five years, despite the abject failure of the 10,000 Umno/BN cybertroopers trained in a series of nation-wide 1Malaysia Social Media Conventions involving hundreds of millions of ringgit of public funds in the run up to the 13GE?” said Lim.

He challenged the PM to find out the real reasons why the mainstream media has “lost all credibility and authority”.

“Let such an independent commission of inquiry delve into the lies and falsehoods of Umno/BN mainstream media, whether Utusan Malaysia, New Straits Times, Berita Harian or The Star alleging that DAP funded the alleged ‘Red Bean Army’of 300 to 3,000 cybertroopers, spending from RM108 million to RM1 billion in the past six years to demonise and character-assassinate Umno/BN leaders

NONE “Even now, the Umno mouthpiece, Utusan Malaysia , is continuing to publish such lies and falsehoods about the DAP funding the Red Bean Army,” he said.

Lim said Najib’s failure to provide true “transformation” of his administration was the real reason behind the dismal results, that saw BN retaining a smaller majority than in 2008, and losing on popular votes.

The PM, he said, has failed to deliver a “safe, clean, transparent and moderate Malaysia” as shown by netizens’ numerous complaints on the worsening crime situation in the country.

“Najib managed to scrape through to victory because of the absence of a clean, free and fair election system,” said Lim.