Category: Elections

DAP must be prepared to face any form of combination of attack by Gerakan, MCA and UMNO in the Battle for Tanjung 2 in the next general elections

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, when declaring open the Penang DAP Island General Elections Seminar at Auditorium C, Komtar, on Saturday, 21st April 1990 at 2.30 p.m.

DAP must be prepared to face any form of combination of attack by Gerakan, MCA and UMNO in the Battle for Tanjung 2 in the next general elections

In the next general elections which is expected to be held in the next hundred days, the Battle of Tanjung 2 in Penang is going to be a historic and key electoral contest for the country. Continue reading DAP must be prepared to face any form of combination of attack by Gerakan, MCA and UMNO in the Battle for Tanjung 2 in the next general elections

Response to Star report yesterday headlined “Kim Sai on content of the Barisan election manifesto”

19th April 1990
Editor,
Star.

Sir,

Response to Star report yesterday headlined “Kim Sai on content of the Barisan election manifesto”

I refer to the Star news report in page 2 yesterday under the heading “Kim Sai on content of the Barisan election manifesto”, where the MCA Deputy President, Datuk Lee Kim Sai, criticised the DAP for its adoption scheme of the four MCA Ministers and their MCA party positions. Continue reading Response to Star report yesterday headlined “Kim Sai on content of the Barisan election manifesto”

Parliamentary will be dissolved and general elections held in the next hundred days

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the official opening of the Sungei Pinang DAP Branch Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday, 18th April 1990 at 8 p.m.

Parliamentary will be dissolved and general elections held in the next hundred days

Parliament should be dissolved and the general elections held in the next hundred days. There are two schools of through as to whether Parliament would be dissolved next month or in July. Continue reading Parliamentary will be dissolved and general elections held in the next hundred days

DAP to send a delegation to meet Election Commission on the unclean 1989 Electoral Roll and the validity of the voters’ registration exercise last month

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Monday, 17th April 1990:

DAP to send a delegation to meet Election Commission on the unclean 1989 Electoral Roll and the validity of the voters’ registration exercise last month

DAP takes a very serious view of the news report quoting the principal assistance secretary 1 (operations) of the Election Commission, Mohamad Nor, that the 1989 Electoral Roll is unclean. Continue reading DAP to send a delegation to meet Election Commission on the unclean 1989 Electoral Roll and the validity of the voters’ registration exercise last month

If DAP had helped and campaigned in Pantai Merdeka by-election, the 5,166-majority of Barisan Nasional in 1986 general elections would have been slashed to 1,000-1,500 votes

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, 26th March 1990:

If DAP had helped and campaigned in Pantai Merdeka by-election, the 5,166-majority of Barisan Nasional in 1986 general elections would have been slashed to 1,000-1,500 votes

DAP denies and rejects the allegations by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr.Mahathir Mohamed, that the DAP had co-operated and helped to campaign for PAS in the Pantai Merdeka by-election. If the DAP had helped and campaigned in the Pantai Merdeka by-election, the 5,166-najority of the Barisan Continue reading If DAP had helped and campaigned in Pantai Merdeka by-election, the 5,166-majority of Barisan Nasional in 1986 general elections would have been slashed to 1,000-1,500 votes

DAP proposes a two-week extension of the voters’ registration exercise

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, 24th March 1990:

DAP proposes a two-week extension of the voters’ registration exercise

The snap 27-day voters’ registration exercise ending in three days’ time on March 27 is the most unsatisfactory and scandalous in the history of voters’ registration exercises in Malaysia. Continue reading DAP proposes a two-week extension of the voters’ registration exercise

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, March 17, 1990:

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, March 17, 1990:

Most regrettable that Barisan Nasional Government killed the DAP motion to censure and remove Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman as Attorney-General without debate

It is most regrettable and shameful that Barisan Nasional Government killed the DAP motion in Parliament to censure and remove Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman as Attorney-General without debate yesterday, by not allowing time for the motion to be debated. Continue reading By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, March 17, 1990:

Lim Cheng Aun should decline to take up the appointment as Senator but should instead stand for next general elections

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Saturday, 17th March 1990:

Lim Cheng Aun should decline to take up the appointment as Senator but should instead stand for next general elections

I have no views on the appointment of Lim Cheng Aun as Senator by the Gerakan Penang State Government in the recent meeting of the Penang State Assembly. Continue reading Lim Cheng Aun should decline to take up the appointment as Senator but should instead stand for next general elections

Raja Dato Ariffin and Election Commission Chairman and members invited to a Monday date in Petaling Jaya for Lim Kit Siang to repeat outside Parliament his allegation that the Election Commission has lost its independence

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, and MP for Tunjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Saturday, March 10, 1990.

Raja Dato Ariffin and Election Commission Chairman and members invited to a Monday date in Petaling Jaya for Lim Kit Siang to repeat outside Parliament his allegation that the Election Commission has lost its independence

In Parliament yesterday, the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Raja Dato Ariffin bin Raja Sulaiman, challenged me to repeat outside the Dewan Rakyat my allegation during the debate on the supplementary estimates that the Election Commission has lost its independence, and threatened that if I repeated such allegation outside the House, the Election Commission would institute action against me. Continue reading Raja Dato Ariffin and Election Commission Chairman and members invited to a Monday date in Petaling Jaya for Lim Kit Siang to repeat outside Parliament his allegation that the Election Commission has lost its independence

Gerakan preparing a million-poster campaign to try to provoke me to commit a sedition offence so that I could be jailed and disqualified from standing for elections

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Kepala Batas DAP Branch Anniversary Dinner on Sunday, 4th March 1990 at 8 p.m.

Gerakan preparing a million-poster campaign to try to provoke me to commit a sedition offence so that I could be jailed and disqualified from standing for elections

The 25,000-people Joint DAP-Semangat 46 National Ceramah at Dewan Sri Pinang on February 17, which launched off the national series of such ceramahs throughout the country, has clearly shaken the Gerakan leadership to its very core. Continue reading Gerakan preparing a million-poster campaign to try to provoke me to commit a sedition offence so that I could be jailed and disqualified from standing for elections