DAP today questioned whether Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak will reaffirm his initiative on the Global Movement of Moderates (GMM) amidst the sedition crackdown in the country.

DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang reminded Najib that he had, in his previous speeches at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), claimed that Malaysia is a country which practices principles of moderation.

“In his third speech to the UNGA, will Najib revisit his two earlier speeches and admit the failure even in Malaysia of his initiative on the GMM?” asked Lim ( left ) in a statement today.

Najib will be making his third address as prime minister to the UNGA in New York on Friday. 

Lim pointed out that Najib’s brainchild, the GMM, had been operating as if it is a “seditious” organisation, with the media asked not to report its forum on the “Future of Malaysia” with NGOs on Malaysia Day.

The Gelang Patah MP quipped that this is because moderation has become sedition in Najib’s Malaysia.

He added that Najib’s 1Malaysia policy had also disappeared from the prime minister’s lexicon after the 13th general election was concluded.

“(Therefore), will Najib salvage his GMM initiative and make an international statement in the United Nations for an end to the current ‘white terror’ campaign?

“(Will he ) give an undertaking that there will be no Operation Lalang 2 using the Sedition Act and drop all sedition charges and repeal the Sedition Act as he had promised to do in 2012?” asked Lim.

The sedition blitz has witnessed a number of politicians, activists as well as academicians being investigated and charged under the Sedition Act.

The latest conviction saw activist Adam Adli slapped with a 12-month jail sentence.