Chinese tricked into anti-BN tsunami, Nazri says

BY CLARA CHOOI
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
May 08, 2013

Nazri pronounced the little BN colleagues might have lashed out due to the beating of defeat. File picKUALA LUMPUR, May 8 The Chinese were misled in to meditative the Pakatan Rakyat-led (PR) supervision would spell the finish of special rights for the Malays as well as Bumiputeras, comparison Umno politician Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz has pronounced as he assimilated his peers in describing Sundays Chinese tsunami.

The Padang Rengas MP insisted which the tsunami suggested by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had been really real, as it was clear from the polls outcome which the Chinese village had voted along secular lines.

Lets call the scoop the spade. It was really viewable they voted along secular lines. we am not going to be apologetic about which fact.

But what we am saying is which they were misled, most among these first-time electorate were additionally naive... meditative which they can disintegrate BN as well as meditative which the special rights for the Malays as well as the Bumiputeras will be abolished, he told The Malaysian Insider in the phone call yesterday.

But Nazri pronounced this would not be the box as the Malays in PAS or PKR would not have dared amend the Constitution for this purpose.

He pronounced notwithstanding claiming to be the liberal personality as well as the believer of next to rights for all, leaders like Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim would never dare to be the prime apportion who abolished Malay as well as Bumiputera rights.

Ask him as well as see. None of them would dare to do this. So the Chinese were misled. This is where they went wrong, he said.

Nazri, who once famously declared himself Malaysian initial as well as Malay next, pointed out which notwithstanding his appeal to electorate opposite all races, even he had ! mislaid badly in polling stations with big numbers of Chinese voters.

And we am the most Malaysian of all Malay politicians. So we can see which the tsunami was really real, he said.

Nazri stressed, however, which there should be no magician track opposite the Chinese or any direct for the village to be punished for choosing by casting votes opposite the BN.

Instead, the comparison personality pronounced BN must go ahead with the plan for national reconciliation as well as work harder to remonstrate the Chinese of the inclusiveness.

He concurred which the couple of of his peers had responded in the huff opposite the Chinese though urged for calm, saying it was natural to feel frustrated.

They mislaid as well as they felt they had finished the lot for the community. They have been entitled to the little disappointment.

Give them the cooling (off) period... dont take their reactions as something which will be translated in to policies done by the government, he said.

In the aftermath of his loss, former Malacca chief apportion Datuk Seri Ali Rustam called the Chinese ungrateful for rejecting BN notwithstanding his contribution to the community.

BN successfully recaptured federal energy in Election 2013 though with the reduced chair infancy of 133 to PRs 89, unwell in the bid for the two-thirds infancy in Parliament.

A rough investigate of the poll formula saw which the larger number of Chinese voters, both in rural as well as civic areas, corroborated PR this time, in comparison to Election 2008.

Najib immediately called this the Chinese tsunami though drew critique for the label, which his detractors pronounced would usually worsen secular polarisation here.

Umnos Utusan Malaysia yesterday front-paged the subject Apa lagi Cina mahu? (What else do the Chinese want?) in what appeared to be an try to shape the formula of Election 2013 as the Chinese-versus-Malay vote.

But analysts disagreed which it had simply been the Chinese tsunami which caus! ed BN to drain seats this time, though the vital swing in the civic as well as middle-class electorate which saw Malaysias urban-rural rift widen.