Call on voters of Cameron Highlands to be the eyes and ears of the law to report on any vote-buying and corrupt electoral practices to make the by-election the cleanest election in Malaysian history


I call on the voters of Cameron Highlands to be the eyes and ears of the law to report on any vote-buying and corrupt electoral practices to make the by-election the cleanest election in Malaysian history.

I also call on all competing political parties and candidates to co-operate to make the Cameron Highlands by-election the cleanest election in Malaysian history by making an instant full disclosure of the electoral expenditures when questioned.

Then the voters of Cameron Highlands would have made great history in Malaysia.

This is the principle that the Pakatan Harapan by-election campaign in Cameron Highlands is adhering to and I hope that the Barisan Nasional by-election campaign will also adhere to.

Today, Barisan Nasional leaders took to the social media to post comments on a batch of images showing money being allegedly handed out to people in Pakatan Harapan Cameron Highlands T-shirts and police reports had been lodged alleging that vote-buying was involved.

We are not afraid of the truth as no vote-buying was involved.

Arvind Bharet, the assistant to the Jelai Harapan operations chief, had explained that the images that surfaced on the social media depicted the party volunteers in Cameron Highlands being reimbursed for their expenses for attending the Nomination yesterday, which would be declared as part of the campaign spending.

The woman in red t-shirt is known as Vanessa, a Dusun-Punjabi from Kota Kinabalu who had been an Impian Malaysia volunteer since 2014. She is a Mass Communications graduate doing voluntary social work via Impian Malaysia all over the country.

She was placed in charge of the Orang Asli motor-cyclists who came out from their various Orang Asli kampongs for the Nomination in Tanah Rata yesterday.

There were 60 motor-cyclists and she reimbursed them RM20 each per motor-cyclist.

There were five cars and four buses of Orang Aslis but they were not Vanz’s responsibility

Is Barisan Nasional prepared to give a full public accounting of how many people it mobilized for the Nomination yesterday, and the total expenditure involved as well as to answer all queries on financial expenditures during the by-election?

(Media Statement (3) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 13th January 2019)

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Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada Ahad, 13 Januari 2019:

Menyeru semua pengundi Cameron Highlands agar menjadi mata dan telinga pihak berkuasa dan melaporkan sebarang aktiviti mencurigakan seperti amalan membeli undi dan kegiatan rasuah bagi menjadikan pilihan raya kecil (PRK) kali ini sebagai pilihan raya terbersih dalam sejarah negara

Saya menyeru semua pengundi Cameron Highlands agar menjadi mata dan telinga pihak berkuasa dan melaporkan sebarang aktiviti mencurigakan seperti amalan membeli undi dan kegiatan rasuah bagi menjadikan pilihan raya kecil (PRK) kali ini sebagai pilihan raya terbersih dalam sejarah negara.

Saya juga menyeru semua parti politik dan calon yang bertanding untuk bersama-sama turut serta menjadikan PRK Cameron Highlands sebagai pilihan raya terbersih dalam sejarah negara dengan mengemukakan penyata perbelanjaan pilihan raya apabila diminta kelak.

Ini adalah prinsip yang dipegang oleh jentera kempen Pakatan Harapan dalam pilihan raya kecil Cameron Highlands dan saya harap Barisan Nasional akan berpegang pada pendirian yang sama.

Hari ini, pemimpin Barisan Nasional membangkitkan mengenai beberapa keping gambar yang tular di media sosial yang memaparkan beberapa orang berpakaian baju-T dengan logo Pakatan Harapan dikatakan memberikan wang kepada pengundi. Susulan itu, beberapa laporan polis telah dibuat atas dakwaan berlaku pembelian undi.

Kami tidak gentar dengan tuduhan itu kerana tidak ada sebarang pembelian undi berlaku dalam kejadian itu.

Penolong kepada ketua operasi Jelai Pakatan Harapan, Arvind Bharet, menjelaskan mengenai imej yang tular di media yang mengambarkan beberapa sukarelawan parti di Cameron Highlands sedang mengagihkan pembayaran balik perbelanjaan kepada pihak yang terlibat pada hari pencalonan semalam, yang mana akan diisytiharkan sebagai sebahagian daripada perbelanjaan kempen.

Wanita memakai baju berwarna merah itu dikenali sebagai Vanessa, berketurunan Dusun-Punjabi dari Kota Kinabalu. Beliau menjadi sukarelawan Impian Malaysia sejak 2014. Beliau adalah graduan dalam bidang komunikasi yang melakukan kerja-kerja sukarelawan menerusi Impian Malaysia di seluruh negara.

Beliau ditugaskan untuk menguruskan Orang Asli dari pelbagai kampung Orang Asli yang hadir menaiki motosikal pada hari penamaan calon di Tanah Rata, semalam.

Terdapat 60 penunggang motosikal dan beliau membuat pembayaran balik sebanyak RM20 setiap seorang.

Terdapat lima buah kereta dan empat bas yang membawa Orang Asli tetapi ia tidak diletakkan di bawah tanggungjawab Vanz.

Adakah Barisan Nasional bersedia untuk mendedahkan perbelanjaan yang dikeluarkan bagi membawa orang ramai ke hari pencalonan semalam, dan jumlah keseluruhan perbelanjaan yang terlibat serta menjawab semua pertanyaan mengenai perbelanjaan sepanjang tempoh pilihan raya kecil ini?

  1. #1 by drngsc on Monday, 14 January 2019 - 8:43 am

    Hi Kit. Does DAP have an SOP on how to re-imburse volunteers so as not to create the impression of vote buying? There are always opportunist out there looking for an opportunity to smear you all. Should we not try and prevent such “incidences” so as to not create unnecessary folder for the desperate opposition?

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