July 6, 2012
Happy 87th Birthday, Tun
Dear Tun,
I might disagree with your governing body as well as your take upon Malaysian politics. But afterwards this is democracy, flawed as it might be in a country. we do not think Lim Kit Siang hates you. That is as well strong. Like many of us, he disagrees with you.
I wish we a really happy 87th birthday as well as continued good health. we have usually a single bewail as well as which is, we have missed a great event to be a politician for a country; in stead we have selected for reasons of your own to be back in a thick of a increasingly divisive domestic politics.--Din Merican
Tun Dr. Mahathir upon Lim Kit Siang: "I don't know because he hates me so much"
by Jonathan Yong@www.malaysiakini.com
Former strongman Dr Mahathir Mohamed has discharged a existence of 'Mahathirism', as well as warned veteran antithesis personality Lim Kit Siang which steady attacks upon him would usually backfire.
"There is no such thing as 'Mahathirism'. we served a country, that's all. As a adult of Malaysia, we have a right to support my nation as well as make certain it does well," Mahathir told Malaysiakini yesterday.
He was responding to comments made by Lim who claimed Mahathir is personally injecting his code of divisive secular governing body in to a 13th ubiquitous elections to safeguard feat for BN.
Lim has also accused! Mahathir of sowing secular fears between a Malays by highlighting in a recent blog posting which Chinese electorate are "kingmakers" in a upcoming election.
"I don't know because he hates me so much," decried a former premier.Mahathir combined which a attacks from DAP would usually accelerate BN, claiming which former Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was deserted by electorate for mistreating him.
"Last time when Abdullah wasn't good to me, a people did not support BN. So some people still have some sympathy for me," he contended.
'I've no carry out over Najib'
Mahathir additionally refuted claims he has influence over Prime Minister Najib Razak, stressing which he has no goal of returning to power. "If we am in carry out of Najib, afterwards things will be quite different," he said, denying which he is operative during a back of a stage in a lead-up to a crucial ubiquitous election..
When asked if BN would have lost its two-thirds infancy in Parliament during a 2008 ubiquitous choosing if he was in charge, Mahathir said he was not sure.
"I was in carry out for twenty-two years, so we have some-more experience. Maybe things would have been different.
"However, a error lies with Abdullah. He broken all a institutions we built, broken a party as well as a component parties," he seethed. He additionally blamed his selected successor for eroding a certainty of supervision servants in BN.
Mahathir was speaking shortly after a grand opening of a ninth 'The Loaf' outlet during! a code brand new Paradigm Mall in Kelana Jaya.
'The Loaf' is a Japanese-style bakery as well as bistro of which Mahathir has a stake in since its launch in 2006, 3 years after he step down as premier.
"Running a commercial operation is quite different from being Prime Minister.
"As Prime Minister, we get paid each month as well as a supervision takes caring of my transport expenses," he quipped during his short residence during a opening of a ultimate outlet.
He additionally cut an early birthday cake, presented by commercial operation partner Jiro Suzuki. Mahathir's 87th birthday is upon July 10.
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