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Segamat (13th General Election on May 5, 2013)
46,262 (20,093/43.43% Malays;
21,393/46.24% Chinese; 4,641/10.03% Indians)
Vote for Change, for our children’s future
‘Investors will shun Umno’s racist
policies’
Chua … victory for the people can only
be achieved with the rakyat’s full
support.
SEGAMAT
(May 2, 2013):
After completing a nine-hour (11am to 8pm) walkabout in the commercial centre
here, in the Malay heartland villages and the Taman Yayasan night market, Johor
PKR chief Chua Jui Meng ended the night with two ceramahs.
Chua
delivered his ceramah at 8.30pm in a DAP ceramah featuring Lim Kit Siang in
Kampung Abdullah. The ceramah
attracted about 15,000 people.
He
then headed for Kampung Gelang Cincin, an Umno stronghold, at 9.30pm, for a PAS
ceramah organised by Buloh Kasap
candidate Firdaus Masod’s campaign team.
At
the DAP ceramah, Chua reminded the
Chinese audience: “We want change but let’s not be overly confident. The
Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) mean machine and the use of government resources
to cheat on Sunday (May 5 polling day) make our battle for justice and good
governance much more difficult.
“Lawan Tetap Lawan (We must definitely
fight),” he said to a thunderous round of response from the audience repeating
the battle cry.
Chua
reminded the audience that victory for the people can only be achieved with the
rakyat’s full support.
“Every
single vote counts if we want to get rid of the cheating by BN. So, all must
come out to vote for PR,” he added.
Chua
said PR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim had proven himself as a competent finance
minister who brought five consecutive budget surpluses when he was deputy prime
minister and finance minister.
Part of the 15,000-strong crowd at the
DAP ceramah in Kampung Abdullah.
He
was then recognised internationally as the best finance minister and a jealous
Mahathir Mohamed had to remove him.
“So,
BN is talking rubbish by saying that the Anwar-led Pakatan Rakyat (PR) federal
government would bankrupt the country. It is BN that will bankrupt the country
with corruption and plundering of the country’s wealth,” he said, adding the
Najib Abdul Razak-led BN had been internationally recognised as the world
champion in corruption.
Chua
said the Chinese in Johor had overwhelmingly decided to give PR a chance to
govern after May 5 and “we are also feeling the winds of change from the
Indians and Malays”.
“We
promise a caring and loving government for the people. Anwar has repeatedly
said that the PR government would do away with all the BN’s race-based policies
to fast forward Malaysia’s socio-economic growth for all Malaysians.
“Give
us five years to show what we can do for Johoreans, just like what we have
achieved in Penang, Selangor, Kedah, Kelantan and, for a while in Perak, with a
clean administration.
“An
administration that looks after the people, not cronies,” he added.
In
Kampung Gelang Cincin, Chua said six retired army generals had joined the
political cause of PR because “they have had enough of BN’s corrupt ways”.
“They
are experienced and educated Malays who know what is right, what is wrong. They
also know the corruption and abuses of power of the BN administration,” he
added.
“After
56 years of Umno rule, where are the Malays in the many rural areas, the so
called Malay heartland. Are you any better off economically compared with the
Umno cronies?”
He
urged the Malays to look at the facts when deciding which political coalition
to support on Sunday (May 5, 2013).
“Stop
giving Umno blind support and continue to be enslaved by Umno. Think rationally
and out of the box, not emotions.
“Umno
is not worth your support,” he said, adding that Umno had actually betrayed the
Malays’ trust.
Chua
said Umno was today a racist party that continues to use race and religion to
divide Malaysians so that it continues to rule and plunder the nation’s wealth.
“Umno
priority is not the welfare of the people and country. It is their pockets and
cronies.
“If
Umno could reform after 2008, it would not pursue its current political agenda
of using race and religion to incite hatred between Malaysians of all races. It
would have focused on national unity to win the hearts and minds of Malaysians.
“If
Umno wins the vote on May 5, we will all suffer economically because investors,
both local and foreign, will shy from Malayisia’s racist policies,” he added.
Here’s
a collection of pictures from last night: 
