SEREMBAN, Jul 2 Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today trashed Bersih 2.0s purpose for a Jul 9 rally, observant a bloc did not wish electoral reform though was gunning for a repeat of a 2008 choosing tsunami.
Its design is to taint a governments name as well as a police, as well as with that a antithesis parties will win.
The purpose is political... precisely for PR (Pakatan Rakyat). It is not about whether a choosing is purify or not... that is secondary. But they wish to paint a supervision black as well as therefore, although you are gray, you look more white, Dr Mahathir (picture) told reporters after delivering a speech at a national Youth Generation Forum luncheon talk here this afternoon.
The former budding apportion pronounced he had complicated Bersihs 8 demands as well as found that a organisation was merely regulating a criticism to conflict a administration.
It is ostensible to be a direct for cleanliness but, basically, it is an conflict on a supervision since it is claiming that a supervision is not doing things, he said.
Dr Mahathir insisted that Malaysias electoral process has regularly been purify as well as fair, indicating out that antithesis possibilities would regularly be means to win seats in every ubiquitous election.
In 2008, he noted, PRs DAP, PAS as well as PKR had even successfully swept 5 states as well as cost BN a prevalent two-thirds infancy in a Dewan Rakyat.
The supervision nearly lost. Now, if a supervision is fiddling around as well as being unfair, afterwards you think a supervision will win 90 per cent or even 100 per cent, he said.
Dr Mahathir, who was a countrys longest-serving budding minister, additionally lifted a likelihood that PR would attain in gaining electoral await through a Bersih rally, observant that many were additionally against a idea of land a travel demonstration! .
It may do well but, as you said, people have different minds. There will be a little people really angry who will probably, since of a current arrests as well as movement taken, be annoyed with a BN (Barisan Nasional). But there will be other people who will additionally be annoyed with this organisation (Bersih), he said.
He cautioned all parties against a probable clash in in between a races during a protest, observant that it would disquiet a assent in a country.
I hope that it is not a clash in in between a Malays as well as a non-Malays a Malays with a supervision as well as a non-Malays with Bersih. And also, it should not be Muslim against non-Muslim. That is a risk in Malaysia... you play that game, you will order people. You order people as well as afterwards there will be no assent in a country, he said.
On Umno Youths decision to reason a identical criticism next week, Dr Mahathir pronounced all parties should be accorded a same right.
He additionally lifted a spook of a Ops Lalang 1987 Internal Security Act (ISA) crackdown, indicating out that since a supervision had not allowed a antithesis to reason a rally it additionally had to ban Umno Youth from staging a identical entertainment of over 500,000 people.
As a result, you had to arrest a little people as well as put them under ISA. But you did not have clashes as well as you still won a choosing with two-thirds majority, he said, smiling.
Dr Mahathir has been rarely criticised by a antithesis for his role in a barbarous crackdown that saw a detention of over 100 people, together with distinguished politicians from a antithesis as well as a revoking of licences from four publications.
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