Category: Parliament

DAP calls on Dr. Mahathir to relax ban on public rallies during general elections to ensure a meaningful elections, and not a ‘stifled’ campaign

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, 22.3.1982

DAP calls on Dr. Mahathir to relax ban on public rallies during general elections to ensure a meaningful elections, and not a ‘stifled’ campaign

When he announced the date of dissolution of Parliament and the Peninsular State Assemblies, the Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, said he was doing so in advance to give the Opposition time “to prepare for their final days”. Continue reading DAP calls on Dr. Mahathir to relax ban on public rallies during general elections to ensure a meaningful elections, and not a ‘stifled’ campaign

DAP calls on MCA, Gerakan, SUPP Ministers and Members of Parlaiment to join it in demanding for an emergency meeting of Parliament to suspend the 3M implementation for Chinese and Tamil primary schools

Continue reading DAP calls on MCA, Gerakan, SUPP Ministers and Members of Parlaiment to join it in demanding for an emergency meeting of Parliament to suspend the 3M implementation for Chinese and Tamil primary schools

Call For Cuts In Minister’s Allowances

(Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan rakyat on Friday, 4th December 1981 on the 1980/1981 Supplementary Operating and Development Estimates)

Call on the Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, to proceed with the reduction in the salaries and allowances of Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries as well as Chief Ministers, Mentri-Mentri Besar, State Executive Concillors, Mps and State Assemblymen

Yesterday, Parliament had just approved the 1982 estimates totaling $31,951 million for both operating and development expenditures. Continue reading Call For Cuts In Minister’s Allowances

DAP welcomes the announcement by the Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, that he and the Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, are studying the possibility of reducing the salaries and allowances of Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries

by Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 30th Nov. 1981:

DAP welcomes the announcement by the Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, that he and the Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, are studying the possibility of reducing the salaries and allowances of Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries.

There have been great secrecy about the various allowances drawn by the Minister, Deputy Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries, and even the Prime Minister himself had been evading in the current Parliamentary meeting from giving the full details. Continue reading DAP welcomes the announcement by the Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, that he and the Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, are studying the possibility of reducing the salaries and allowances of Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries

DAP calls for a comprehensive review of the Parliamentary standing orders and procedures to give greater vitality and meaning to parliamentary democracy.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the motion to amend the Standing Orders of Dewan Rakyat on Friday, Oct. 30, 1981.

DAP calls for a comprehensive review of the Parliamentary standing orders and procedures to give greater vitality and meaning to parliamentary democracy.

The proposed amendments to the Standing Orders, as moved by the Prime Minister, are part of the ad hoc and piecemeal tinkering with the Standing Orders ever since Merdeka, sometimes to correct technical mistakes and at other times, to restrict the opportunities for the Opposition to play a full part in initiating parliamentary business. Continue reading DAP calls for a comprehensive review of the Parliamentary standing orders and procedures to give greater vitality and meaning to parliamentary democracy.

Parliamentary Standing Orders

(Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the motion to amend the Standing Orders of Dewan Rakyat on Friday, Oct. 30, 1981)

DAP calls for a comprehensive review of the Parliamentary standing orders and procedures to give greater vitality and meaning to parliamentary democracy.

The proposed amendments to the Standing Orders, as moved by the Prime Minister, are part of the ad hoc and piecemeal tinkering with the Standing Orders ever since Merdeka, sometimes to correct technical mistakes and at other times, to restrict the opportunities for the Opposition to play a full part in initiating parliamentary business. Continue reading Parliamentary Standing Orders

Call on Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to sack Mak Hon Kam and other Ministers and Deputy Ministers who are woefully ignorant about the contents of their Ministry’s bill or motion presented to Parliament

Speech by Lim Kit Siang, Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Petaling, at a dinner of DAP MPs held in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, Oct. 22, 1981 at 8 p.m.

Call on Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to sack Mak Hon Kam and other Ministers and Deputy Ministers who are woefully ignorant about the contents of their Ministry’s bill or motion presented to Parliament.

The appointment of the Mahathir-Musa political leadership, with all the fanfare on efficiency, competence and integrity, gave many the impression that in Parliament this time, we can see Ministers, Deputy Ministers, parliamentary Secretaries and Barisan MPs showing greater competence, mastery and knowledge of Ministerial responsibilities and parliamentary affairs. Continue reading Call on Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to sack Mak Hon Kam and other Ministers and Deputy Ministers who are woefully ignorant about the contents of their Ministry’s bill or motion presented to Parliament

State Advances Fund

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the motion to establish a States Advances Fund under the 1957 Financial Procedure Act on October 16, 1981)

The Deputy Finance Minister, Datuk Najib Tun Razak, yesterday moved a motion to propose the establishment of a States Advances Fund under Section 10(4)(a) of the Financial Procedure Act 1957 to help States having financial difficulties. The Deputy Finance Minister said that with the expected increased tempo of development in the country, the government was of the view that such a Fund would play an ever important role.

In emphasising that financial support for the states from the Central Government is very important to speed up development in the states, the Deputy Finance Minister is attempting to present the debate on the States Advances Fund as whether one was for development or against development. Continue reading State Advances Fund

A Biased Report Of Committee Of Privileges

(Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Petaling and Assemblyman for Kubu, Lim Kit Siang, in the Malacca State Assembly on Tuesday, 29th Sept. 1981 on the motion to accept the Report of the Committee of Privileges that he had been absent without leave from the Assembly for six months)

DAP rejects the Report of the Committee of Privileges as being biased and prejudiced, and drafted to support a predetermined conclusion in utter disregard of general parliamentary practice and the Malacca Constitution

The house is asked to accept the Report of the Committee of Privileges tabled on 28th April 1981 with the finding that as I was absent from the State Assembly meeting on 23rd Sept. 1980, under Article 17 of the Malacca Constitution, I had been “without the leave of the Assembly absent from every sitting thereof for a period of six month” and that my Assembly seat of Kubu may be declared vacant. Continue reading A Biased Report Of Committee Of Privileges

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee should stop belly aching about dissatisfied about explanations

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when declaring open the two-day Penang State DAP Political Course at Hotel Continental, Penang on Saturday, 19th Sept. 1981 at 2.30 p.m.

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee should stop belly aching about dissatisfied about explanations by government officials, and summon Ministers to hold them responsible for giving satisfactory explanations to the Auditor-General’s comments.

Since the start of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee hearings into the Auditor-General’s Report of the 1977 Federal Government Accounts, on 2nd Sept. 1981 the constant feature of the PAC meetings is the daily belly-aching by the PAC Chairman, Datuk Lee Boon Peng, after each day’s sitting about how unsatisfied he was about the explanations offered by government officials to various matters examined by the PAC. Continue reading The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee should stop belly aching about dissatisfied about explanations