Category: Elections

Election Commission cannot supply Opposition parties with the new 1989 Electoral Roll until well past the snap 27-day voters’ registration exercise

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, 2nd March 1990:

Election Commission cannot supply Opposition parties with the new 1989 Electoral Roll until well past the snap 27-day voters’ registration exercise

The DAP had wanted to buy the new 1989 Electoral Roll to help the people to check whether their names are still on the Electoral Roll, or had disappeared and need to re-register, but we have been told by the Election Commission that they cannot sell and supply us with the new 1989 Electoral Roll until well after the end of the 27-day snap voters’ registration exercise on 27th March 1990. Continue reading Election Commission cannot supply Opposition parties with the new 1989 Electoral Roll until well past the snap 27-day voters’ registration exercise

DAP warns that Barisan Nasional would try to rig the next general elections to stay on to power

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at Joint DAP-Semangat 46 Ceramah held in Kuala Lumput at the Chinese Assembly Hall on Thursday, 1.3. 1990 at 9 pm

DAP warns that Barisan Nasional would try to rig the next general elections to stay on to power

There are growing disturbing signs that to stay in power, the Mahathir government will try to rig the next general elections. Continue reading DAP warns that Barisan Nasional would try to rig the next general elections to stay on to power

Election Commission caught red-handed as obeying the secret directives of UMNO Baru and Government to conduct snap voters’ registration exercise to benefit UMNO Baru and change election rules

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Saturday, 24.2.1990:

Election Commission caught red-handed as obeying the secret directives of UMNO Baru and Government to conduct snap voters’ registration exercise to benefit UMNO Baru and change election rules

The Election Commission has been caught red-handed as breaching the Constitutional provisions stipulating that it should enjoy public confidence by being independent of all political parties, including the ruling government of the day, in carrying out its constitutional duties to be responsible for all aspects in the conduct of elections. Continue reading Election Commission caught red-handed as obeying the secret directives of UMNO Baru and Government to conduct snap voters’ registration exercise to benefit UMNO Baru and change election rules

DAP to move a motion of urgent, definite public importance in Parliament on Tuesday to debate UMNO Baru’s secret and unconstitutional directives to Election Commission on the snap voters’ registration exercise and changes to election rules and regulations

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the second DAP-Semangat 46 Joint National Ceramah held at Ipoh on Saturday, 24th February 1990 at 10 p.m.

DAP to move a motion of urgent, definite public importance in Parliament on Tuesday to debate UMNO Baru’s secret and unconstitutional directives to Election Commission on the snap voters’ registration exercise and changes to election rules and regulations

In the last four years after the August 1986 general elections, the Mahathir Administration embarked on a systematic concentration of power in its hands, undermining important institutions and constitutional principles meant to be essential checks and balances for a functioning parliamentary democracy in Malaysia. Continue reading DAP to move a motion of urgent, definite public importance in Parliament on Tuesday to debate UMNO Baru’s secret and unconstitutional directives to Election Commission on the snap voters’ registration exercise and changes to election rules and regulations

DAP to instruct its lawyers to look into possibility of court injunction to restarin the Election Commission from holding snap 21-day voters’ registration exercise from March 1 to register 300,000 – 500,000 UMNO members

Comments to the press by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, after wishing Tunku Abdul Rahman happy 87th birthday in Penang on Thursday, 8.2.1990:

DAP to instruct its lawyers to look into possibility of court injunction to restarin the Election Commission from holding snap 21-day voters’ registration exercise from March 1 to register 300,000 – 500,000 UMNO members

DAP is to instruct its party lawyers to look into the possibility of a court injunction to restrain the Election Commission from holding snap 21-day voters’ registration exercise from March 1 to register 300,000 to 500,000 UMNO Baru members. Continue reading DAP to instruct its lawyers to look into possibility of court injunction to restarin the Election Commission from holding snap 21-day voters’ registration exercise from March 1 to register 300,000 – 500,000 UMNO members

Why is Election Commission deliberately misleading the Malaysian people about the snap 21-day voters’ registration campaign beginning on March 1?

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Wednesday, 7th February 1990:

Why is Election Commission deliberately misleading the Malaysian people about the snap 21-day voters’ registration campaign beginning on March 1?

I am very disappointed by the Election Commission for deliberately misleading the Malaysian people about the snap 21-day voters’ registration campaign to begin on March 1, primarily to register the 300,000 to 500,000 UMNO Baru members who have not registered as voters. Continue reading Why is Election Commission deliberately misleading the Malaysian people about the snap 21-day voters’ registration campaign beginning on March 1?

Call on Election Commission to make a clear and definitive statement as to whether there would be a snap 21 day voters’ registration exercise in March

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 6th February 1990:

Call on Election Commission to make a clear and definitive statement as to whether there would be a snap 21 day voters’ registration exercise in March

It is most significant that the Election Commission has been silent in a thousand tongues in not openly denying my statement that it has instructed State Election officials to get ready for a snap 21-day voters’ registration exercise beginning on March 1 primarily to register the 300,000 to 500,000 UMNO Baru members who are not on the Electoral Roll, although the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, has made his routine denial that the Government or UMNO Baru could direct the Election Commission to do its bidding. Continue reading Call on Election Commission to make a clear and definitive statement as to whether there would be a snap 21 day voters’ registration exercise in March

Challenge to Election Commission to deny that if had sent out instructions, to State Election officials on the snap 21-day voters’ registration exercise

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Sunday, 4th February 1990:

Challenge to Election Commission to deny that if had sent out instructions, to State Election officials on the snap 21-day voters’ registration exercise beginning on March 1 with the primary objective of registering the 300,000 UMNO Baru members who had not registered as voters

The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, had denied after the UMNO Baru Supreme Council meeting yesterday that UMON Baru had directed the Election Commission to conduct a snap voters’ registration exercise next month to pad the Electoral Roll with pro-UMNO Baru voters for the next general elections. Continue reading Challenge to Election Commission to deny that if had sent out instructions, to State Election officials on the snap 21-day voters’ registration exercise

DAP wants agreement with CPM tabled in Parliament for debate and calls for an All-Party Parliamentary Committee to recommend repeal of repressive laws which had been justified on the ground of the CPM armed struggle

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, Nov.28, 1989:

DAP wants agreement with CPM tabled in Parliament for debate and calls for an All-Party Parliamentary Committee to recommend repeal of repressive laws which had been justified on the ground of the CPM armed struggle

Dap WELCOMES THE ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, that the 41 year-old armed struggle of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) would end on Saturday (Dec. 2), when the CPM concludes an agreement with the
Malaysian and Thai governments in Thailand. Continue reading DAP wants agreement with CPM tabled in Parliament for debate and calls for an All-Party Parliamentary Committee to recommend repeal of repressive laws which had been justified on the ground of the CPM armed struggle

UMNO party elections for UMNO President, Deputy President, Vice President and Supreme Council members may have to be held once again of the law suit by UMNO members challenging the legality of the April UMNO General Assembly is successful.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung. Lim Kit Siang, at Perak State leadership training course held at Hotel excelsior, Ipoh on Sunday, on 20.9.1987, at 9.40 am.

UMNO party elections for UMNO President, Deputy President, Vice President and Supreme Council members may have to be held once again of the law suit by UMNO members challenging the legality of the April UMNO General Assembly is successful.

In the past few weeks, UMNO politics in the country had entered into a new phase, with the contending forces in UMNO preparing for the possibility of a re-run of the UMNO elections for the top UMNO positions in the near future. Continue reading UMNO party elections for UMNO President, Deputy President, Vice President and Supreme Council members may have to be held once again of the law suit by UMNO members challenging the legality of the April UMNO General Assembly is successful.