DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang has urged a national roundtable conference to brainstorm and search for an exit for the country's unprecedented quandary caused by the twin scandals of 1MDB fiasco and RM2.6 billion donation.

The national roundtable conference of eminent citizens, community and religious elders, political and civil society leaders, is also meant to restore Malaysians' lost self-confidence to compete with the best in the world, he said.

Lim added that Malaysians have lost their self-confidence to remake the world that they had displayed in earlier decades as the country has been "bogged down with a multitude of crises".

"The nation must get out of this rut we have been stuck in the past few years, which the RM2.6 billion donation and RM50 billion 1MDB twin mega scandals have combined to pull us down deeper and deeper into the abyss.

"We must rediscover our greatness as Malaysians," he said last night at the "Solidarity with Lim Kit Siang and Mana RM2.6 billion?" forum held at Kota Kinabalu.

According to Lim, a new start initiated by the people's own effort is needed as the formal political parties in the governing coalition have failed the nation.

“They cannot get Malaysia out of this rut as they are the ones responsible for the nation stuck in this deep abyss," he added.

Lim said the present campaign to raise political awareness amidst the scandals was not about him, but the future of 3.3 million Sabahans and 30 million Malaysians.

The veteran politician also touched on the possibility of Budget 2016 being rejected and Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak stepping down next week when Parliament reconvenes.

"From the present political scenario, this will not happen as I do not see any possibility of some 40 Umno/BN parliamentarians crossing the floor on Monday to join the 71 Pakatan Harapan MPs," he said.

PAS with 14 lawmakers has decided to abstain from voting.

"But this possibility should drive home to the people of Sabah and Sarawak their 'kingmaker' role in deciding whether Najib continues as the prime minister and who forms the federal government in Putrajaya," Lim said.

Sabah has 22 BN lawmakers while Sarawak has 25.

This also means that Najib is not all that powerful as he seems to be, he emphasised.

A recent poll in August showed that Najib has the support of 31 percent of Malay voters, 23 percent of Malaysian voters and five percent of Chinese voters, Lim said.