KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 19 Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad certified today that the Najib administrations gusto for handing out cash to Malaysians by the various people-centric policies was really close to vote buying.
But the former budding apportion pronounced the government was running out of time with polls sketch closer as the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) bloc indispensable the bigger mandate to tie the grasp upon Putrajaya.
I do not believe in giving money to the people. we believe in giving facilities. But we think when the government has no time as well as they have been confronting an election, they have the decision that is easy, Dr Mahathir (picture) pronounced in his keynote address at the Perdana Leadership Foundations CEO Forum 2012 here.
If we give people money, then they should await (you). Maybe it is not vote-buying... though it is really close to that, he said, to delight from the audience.
The government is approaching to announce the second turn of RM500 cash handouts to lower-income households when Budget 2013 is tabled next week, in the pierce that is seen as giving Najib as well as his BN pacts ratings the progress forward of polls approaching soon.
The first turn of handouts underneath the Bantuan Rakyat 1 Malaysia (BR1M) programme, that concerned the little 5 million families as well as cost taxpayers RM2.6 billion, saw Najibs capitulation ratings fire up to 69 per cent, largely due to the swell of await from low-income households.
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