DPM concerned over Opposition-run states

(The Star) – Progress in Opposition-run states may suffer due to poor administration by their Pakatan Rakyat leaders, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.

“This is what I’m worried about,” he said.

“If they administer the Pakatan-controlled states for two or three years, certainly there will be setbacks to the states’ progress which was brought about by Barisan Nasional in the past.

“We, outside the Pakatan Rakyat, have known that they cannot work together although they have tried to show that they have forged a close cooperation among themselves,” he told reporters after opening the National Asset and Facility Management Convention here yesterday.

Muhyiddin said DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang had also admitted in his blog that public confidence in the Opposition pact was declining.

In his posting yesterday, Lim remarked that “Pakatan Rakyat had suffered a prolonged and unceasing bout of loss of public confidence over the past eight months.”

He said the rakyat should look at the current Prime Minister’s leadership and Barisan government, which has had vast experience and was capable of developing the nation.

Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, in a separate media conference after attending the opening of the convention, said the Opposition leaders only knew how to criticise but when given the opportunity to administer the states, they had no capability.

“Now, they have formed the government (in some states),” he said.

“They don’t know how to behave except to become the opposition. Now they are opposing among themselves.”