Kit Siang: ‘No chance’ of voting out Najib?
DAP leader says PM has ‘locked up’ BN support, but a popular vote will go against him
(Free Malaysia Today) – The DAP’s Lim Kit Siang appears to have conceded, after months of opposition campaigning, that there is now “no chance of success” for forcing prime minister Najib Razak out of office through a confidence motion in Parliament.
In a statement here today, Lim said Najib seemed to have “locked up” the support of Umno warlords, and therefore the majority of Umno-Barisan Nasional members of Parliament
As a result, a vote of no confidence against the prime minister “seems to hold no chance of success”, he said.
Lim contended, however, that any national referendum would show “more than 75 percent” against Najib, relying on the 52 percent of the total votes against the Barisan Nasional in the 2013 general election, plus more than half of those who voted for Umno-BN.
He believed that if Umno’s 3.5 million members were allowed to have their say, “I am sure the majority will reflect the wishes of the majority of Malaysians in wanting to have a new Prime Minister”. However, Umno members could not have their say as party elections have been postponed until after the next general election, which must be held by mid-2018.
