DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang has challenged Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to immediately hold the 14th general election to see whether the Citizens’ Declaration by the Save Malaysia group represent the majority view of Malaysians.

He was responding to Najib saying earlier today that the declaration, which seeks to remove the prime minister from power, does not represent the majority view of Malaysians.

“If Najib claims that the Citizens’ Declaration does not represent the majority view of Malaysians, I want to issue a challenge to Najib - to immediately hold the 14th general election to ascertain whether the Citizens’ Declaration to Save Malaysia represents the majority view of Malaysians,” Lim said in a speech in Semiling, Merbok today.

Najib had said that the declaration was mooted only to promote the agenda of a select few, but Lim contended that Najib could not be more wrong, which only shows how serious Najib’s problem of being constantly cut off from the ground is.

While Lim admitted that there are those who are doubtful of the effectiveness of the Citizens’ Declaration in achieving its two-fold goals of removing Najib and implementing institutional reforms, he is sure that the majority of Malaysians support the declaration.

He also reminded that Najib is the first minority prime minister, as he did not manage to garner the majority support of the popular vote in the previous general election.

“Pakatan Rakyat at the time won 53 percent of the popular vote, and if the election system wass democratic, fair and just, the prime minister after the 13th general election in May 2013 would have been Anwar Ibrahim and not Najib,” he said.

Since GE13, there is no doubt that Najib’s popularity ratings has nose-dived further, Lim said, adding that a recent opinion poll had found that Najib’s support among Malay voters had fallen to as low as 31 percent.

“Najib’s boast that he has majority support of Malaysians is therefore baseless and flies against the face of political realities in the country,” he said.