Be courageous and dump BN, DAP tells voters
By Joseph Tawie, Free Malaysia Today
KUCHING: DAP is banking on young and courageous candidates in the hope of changing the fate of Sarawak for the better.
The party’s secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, in naming the party’s candidates for the state election, called upon the people of Sarawak to fight with them in making the change.
‘In a sense we are asking the people of Sarawak to have the courage to stand up. Do you have the courage to stand up?
“If Sarawak dares to stand up, Malaysia will dare to step forward for a new era of democracy and justice, freedom and prosperity,” he said.
“This election is so important that it can be likened to the ‘battle of the century’ for Sarawak,” he added.
He asked the people of Sarawak whether they still want the Barisan Nasional to continue to have the totalitarian greed of the affairs of Sarawak until the people are unable to live not only freely but the prosperity that they rightly deserve.
He said this after unveiling Sarawak DAP’s five candidates for the southern region.
The candidates are: Leon Jimat Donald for N27 Simanggang; Christina Chew (N13 Batu Kawah); Chong Chieng Jen (N12 Kota Sentosa); Violet Yong (N10 Pending) and Wong King Wei (N 9 Padungan).
The youngest of the five is Chew, who is only 26-years-old and the holder of a master’s degree in biochemistry; three of them – Wong, 31, Yong, 32, and Chong, 39 – are lawyers, while Leon, 33, is a diploma holder from United Kingdom.
Ten other candidates for the northern region were announced in Sibu.
“Our candidates are not only young, but also have the courage to fight for democracy, justice and the rights of the people,” he said.
He also told the Sarawak voters not to trust Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud’s retirement plan – due to kick off in the mid term after this election.
“Can you trust Taib? Do you trust him? I still remember SUPP chairman George Chan announcing that he wanted to retire in the last election. Did he retire?”
“No, he continued again. So if the BN wins again, they will use this as an excuse to go on and on,” he said.
He said that the only way to get rid of the BN leaders was by making sure they don’t win in the April 16 state polls.
