'Najib must state if he will step down if budget voted down'
DAP has asked Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to state if he would resign should Parliament reject his Budget 2016 next week.
Gelang Patah MP Lim Kit Siang said the prime minister has to declare his stand, since his cabinet member Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department and Gerakan president Mah Siew Keong has raised the matter.
Lim in a statement today cited how Mah told Chinese daily Sinchew Daily that there is no need for Najib to resign as prime minister even if the House should vote down Budget 2016.
He described Mah's claim as "turning accepted parliamentary conventions and practices on their head", and a "perversion of parliamentary tradition" that is unbecoming of Gerakan, which has often called itself "the conscience" of BN.
Lim asked if the remark was Mah's personal opinion or if he had discussed the matter with the PM.
The Gerakan president's claim, he said, "indicates the degree of depravity and degradation this political party had undergone in order to hang on to the few perks of office and position in government".
"Regardless of the outcome of the parliamentary vote on Monday, Najib should declare his stand on whether he would resign as prime minister if the Budget 2016 is rejected, or he would hang on to office, both as prime minister and finance minister, regardless of the outcome of the parliamentary vote," said Lim.
The veteran DAP leader said while the possible rejection of Najib's budget in Parliament may be an 'academic question', if it materialises it would be the "greatest parliamentary and political surprise in the nation’s history, and a very important principle of democratic and good governance is involved".
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