Guan Eng: 'Vote Harapan for development' remark taken out of context
Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng has clarified his remarks urging voters in Cameron Highlands to vote for Pakatan Harapan in the Jan 26 by-election if they want development...
Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng has clarified his remarks urging voters in Cameron Highlands to vote for Pakatan Harapan in the Jan 26 by-election if they want development.
"The (original) report was not comprehensive or taken out of context.
"What I said was this: We should have two governments together to help Cameron Highlands. One is the state government, where the constituency of Jelai is represented by BN.
"Another (Cameron Highlands) is represented by the federal government. If you get an elected representative from the federal government, we can help develop Cameron Highlands together," he told reporters in Putrajaya today.
Lim said without a federal representative in Cameron Highlands, development could be disrupted as Pahang has the highest debt in the country.
"They owe RM3.1 billion. Will they have the funds to carry out development?" he asked.
Lim said unlike the BN government in the past, he did not promise money or specific development projects.
"Did you see us announcing new roads or new bridges? No, we didn't do that," he added.
Lim also denied discriminating against opposition constituencies, pointing out that under the Harapan federal government, opposition MPs receive an allocation of RM100,000.
Such allocations were previously not given under the BN administration.
Yesterday, Bersih said the minister's remarks hinted that Cameron Highland's development would be affected should Harapan lose the by-election.
The watchdog said this could be seen as undue influence, which is an offence under Section 9 of the Election Offences Act 1954.
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