‘No more PMs who are children of ex-PMs’
(FMT) – “Najib spends a lot of money, but do we see it? No we do not. We only see private jets, handbags, lavish kenduris (feasts).”
Pakatan Harapan chief secretary Saifuddin Abdullah has belittled Prime Minister Najib Razak’s attempts to identify with ordinary members of the public, saying he could only pretend to know how they suffer under the weight of the high cost of living.
Speaking at a forum organised by Bayan Baru PKR here over the weekend, he said future prime ministers of the country should not be sons or daughters of former PMs because they would tend to be out of touch with the common folk. Najib is a son of Malaysia’s second prime minister.
Saifuddin noted that many Barisan Nasional leaders had lately been claiming that they felt the hardship endured by the masses.
“In reality, they do not know how it feels,” he said. “If they really knew how it felt, then they would not go about saying ‘the price of chicken is cheap’ and ‘if vegetables aren’t cheap, then buy kangkung.’
“And this is from a PM that cares for his people. That is why I say, enough of having a PM who is a son or a daughter of another PM. Enough is enough.
