KUALA LUMPUR, Sept nineteen Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad admitted currently that the Najib administration's gusto for handing out money to Malaysians by the assorted people-centric policies was "very close" to opinion buying. But the former prime minister said the supervision was using out of time with polls sketch closer as the statute Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition needed the bigger mandate to tie the grasp on Putrajaya.
"I do not hold in giving income to the people. we hold in giving facilities. But we consider when the supervision has no time as well as they are facing an election, they make the decision that is easy," Dr Mahathir(picture)said in his keynote address at the Perdana Leadership Foundation's CEO Forum 2012 here.
"If we give people money, then they should await (you). Maybe it is not vote-buying... though it is very close to that," he said, to laughter from the audience.
The supervision is expected to make known the second turn of RM500 money handouts to lower-income households when Budget 2013 is tabled subsequent week, in the pierce that is seen as giving Najib as well as his BN pact's ratings the progress ahead of polls expected soon.
The initial turn of handouts under the Bantuan Rakyat 1 Malaysia (BR1M) programme, that involved the little 5 million families as well as price taxpayers RM2.6 billion, saw Najib's capitulation ratings fire up to 69 per cent, largely due to the surge of await from low-income households.
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