Azalina: Pakatan donning environmentalist hats to woo Johor vote


PENGERANG, Sept thirty Pengerang MP Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said has dismissed today's convene opposite Petronas' RM60 billion petrochemical investment here as a ploy by Pakatan Rakyat (PR) to woo electoral await by masquerading as environmentalists.
Labelling PR leaders "insincere", a former youth as well as sports apportion toldThe Malaysian Insiderthat a federal opposition's sudden regard for Pengerang voters would expected fizzle out after a coming polls.
She pronounced PR longed for to "turn this in to a second Lynas", referring to a fibre of opposition-backed protests in Kuantan, Pahang, opposite a multimillion ringgit singular earth refinery in Gebeng Industrial Park by Australian mining organisation Lynas Corporation.
Residents vital nearby a Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) site in Gebeng had raised concerns over a possibility of radioactive residues from a plant posing safety as well as illness risks, as well as have been lobbying for a plan to be scrapped despite federal approval.
"Pakatan only wants to convene up await for themselves as well as their actions will create a negative perception of a country.
"This (today's) criticism is upon a stratagem of being environmental in nature though its objectives have been to assistance a opposition," she pronounced when contacted here.
Thousands of green-clad protesters from various internal as well as inhabitant NGOs, together with a Himpunan Hijau organisation from Kuantan, will be descending upon a tiny municipality of Kampung Sungai Rengit in Pengerang today to criticism a Petronas Refinery as well as Petrochemicals Development (RAPID) project.
RAPID is part of a Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex (PIPC) occupying a infancy of a tiny constituency upon a southernmost tip of Johor, which is approach! ing to t urn Malaysia in to a mega petrochemical hub.
Thousands of residents in seven villages affected by RAPID have already been notified of their impending depletion after a supervision invoked Section 8 of a Land Acquisition Act.
But most have been pronounced to be unhappy with a compensation understanding offering to them in sell for their depletion from a coastal municipality where they have stayed for over three generations now.
"I am certain a internal folk here aren't so foolish.
"The matter of greatest regard here is about a land. And a supervision had never forced them out," Azalina(picture)said.
"There have been most issues of regard here in Johor. This RAPID emanate is only a singular of a opposition's arms to try as well as weaken us."
Since yesterday, protestors from opposite 25 locations nationwide had started streaming in to Kampung Sungai Rengit, located during a southernmost tip of Johor here, turning a quiet coastal municipality in to a hive of activity ahead of this morning's protest.
When met yesterday, organisers toldThe Malaysian Insiderthat they have already run afoul a authorities as both a internal legislature as well as a military have refused to give their go-ahead for a mass rally.
Three roadblocks have been approaching to be erected to block a singular carriageway in to Kampung Sungai Rengit, though eventuality coordinator Zaaba Abdul Samad pronounced a authorities "may be means to stop a vehicles though not a people".
The outspoken activist added which a Pengerang emanate would expected be Umno's bruise point, even inspiring its chances of recapturing a parliamentary chair in a coming polls.
He forked out which during a prior dual elections in 2004 as well as 2008, Azalina had cruised to easy walkover victories as a antithesis had difficulty with its candidates.
"But this time, we will 'lawan tetap lawan'! (fight to a end)," he said.
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