Pakatan Harapan against TPP, DAP says

(Malay Mail Online) – All Pakatan Harapan lawmakers will vote against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, DAP said ahead of the special Parliament sitting next week on the free trade treaty.

News portal The Malaysian Insider also reported that DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng criticised yesterday racial sentiments surrounding the Pacific treaty, after PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang accused the DAP of supporting the TPP on grounds that the Chinese dominant trade in Malaysia.

“They say we support the agreement because we are Chinese. The TPPA is not by the Chinese but by the US.

“Even China does not support the TPPA. Those who support the TPPA are Barisan Nasional (BN) and Umno,” Lim was quoted saying at Parti Amanah Negara’s (Amanah) dinner function in Bayan Baru last night.

The DAP had announced last November that it would vote against the TPP if Putrajaya could not clarify the impact of the agreement on drug prices.

Besides Pakatan Harapan comprising the DAP, PKR and Amanah, PAS and Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) are also opposed to the US-driven TPP that involves a dozen nations in the Pacific.