Kit Siang insists polls fight between coalitions, blasts MCA’s ‘two-race’ claim
By Ida Lim and Mohd Farhan Darwis
SKUDAI, May 6 — DAP’s Lim Kit Siang has slammed political rival Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek for depicting the opposition’s gains in Johor as a contest between two races, insisting that Election 2013 was a choice between the two coalitions of Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and Barisan Nasional (BN).
“Chua Soi Lek has been trying to give the impression that this is a two-race system.
“This is a two-coalition system,” Lim said firmly when speaking to reporters at the GoodHope hotel here in the early hours of this morning, after winning the Gelang Patah contest last night.
The DAP veteran leader accused Dr Chua, the MCA president, of influencing former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and last term’s deputy prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
“I believe that Mahathir was influenced by Chua Soi Lek,” Lim said, having referred to Dr Mahathir’s accusation that he had went to Gelang Patah to allegedly create a “racial confrontation” by pitting the Chinese against the Malays.
About an hour ago before Lim’s immediate response, Chua had written on his Twitter account: “2-race system now. MCA will respect the voters’ decision that if we can’t perform better than last GE, we won’t take up any govt post.”
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