"We have calculated that on average, a family can buy groceries such as 10kg of rice, 5kg of cooking oil and other essentials per month with RM41.60. That means they have enough to buy food for 12 months with the RM500 BR1M" -
PM Najib
If what Malaysia's PM Najib had been quoted to have said has a grain of truth, we could lend Jim Cameron of UK lots of money to tide things out and he wouldn't have to sell military choppers to India!
And with that kind of background noises, Malaysia's opposition,from Pakatan Rakyat, is really offering Liberty, Equality and Freedom Fraternity (Liberté, égalité, fraternité) in their proposals for the imminent general elections, the GE13.
Have a look at what they're offering!
MANIFESTO RAKYAT
PAKATAN HARAPAN RAKYAT
MANIFESTO RAKYAT
PAKATAN HARAPAN RAKYAT
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- Lower oil prices
- Lower electricity charges
- Lower water charges
- Abolish tolls
- Abolish monopolies
- Lower car prices
- 150,000 affordable and comfortable
housing
- National Housing Corporation: investing
- RM5 billion in the first year and RM2 billion
a year after to build affordable and
comfortable housing
- Respect the position of Islam as the official
religion and guaranteeing the freedom of
religion as enshrined in the Federal
Constitution
- Elevate culture as a positive foundation of
community
- Malaysian Women’s Contribution Fund:
contribution of RM50 per month for wives
who qualify, and husbands will be obliged to
provide toward a contribution fund
proportionate to their income (between
RM10 to RM100 per month).
- Senior Citizens’ Bonus Scheme (60 years and
above): RM1,000 Bonus each year
- Uphold the national language, ensure the
rights of mother-tongue languages, and
improve the command of English
- Additional assistance of RM300 per student
each year for the 1,854 people’s religious
schools, national-type Chinese and Tamil
schools (SJK), private Chinese, Tamil, Iban,
- Kadazan and mission schools.
- Free education for all, abolishing PTPTN
- Eliminate AES, revoking AES summonses
Justice for FELDA settlers
- Increase police capabilities to solving
crime
- Free ward service to all citizens in all
government hospitals for class 2 and 3
wards
- Social Welfare Assistance increased to
RM550 a month
- 1 million new job opportunities for the people by
gradually reducing dependence on foreign labour
- Minimum wage of RM1,100 per month; RM2
billion facilitation fund to facilitate minimum wage
- People’s Pioneer Scheme: train 1 million school
leavers without higher education to uplift their
skills in technical fields, combining employment
opportunities with periodic certification of skills.
- 5 technical universities and 25 new vocational
schools to be built
- Education reform to drive the economy
Cultivate smart partnership of trade unions,
employers and government
- SMIs and innovation to drive the national
economy – RM500 million national innovation
fund, SMI financing and incentives reshuffle
- Tax adjustment to promote equity - income band
will be broadened so that the 26% tax rate will be
payable for taxable income exceeding RM400,000
as compared to RM250,000 at present
Sustainable economy – halt Lynas operations,
review implementation phases of RAPID, reform
all existing legislation related to logging, and will
regulate logging activities
- Defend military veterans’ economy and welfare –
RM500 million for Military Veterans’ Small
- Recognise the Unified Examination
Certificate (Combined Chinese Schools)
(UEC)
- Respect the position of Sabah and Sarawak
in the Federation – federal cooperation, fair
representation, citizenship, recognition of
customary Land Rights, competence and
capability of Sabah and Sarawak, justice in
the oil issue, and unified development
- Immediate programmes for Sabah and
Sarawak – eliminate cabotage system, create
investment incentives to create jobs, oil
companies owned by the governments of
Sabah and Sarawak, highway across Sabah
and Sarawak, halt the construction of dams
that destroy the environment and displace
locals
- Preserve Orang Asli customary land rights
and welfare
- Entrepreneur Fund, increase government
contribution to the Armed Forces Fund Board
(AFFB) from 15% to 20% (managed separately
from pension funds), Soldiers’ Dividend will
remunerate non-pensionable veterans to the
amount of RM2,000 per year
- Making taxi entrepreneurs viable by giving
permits directly to taxi drivers
- R&D investments to reach 5% of GDP
- Public transport – the lifeline of the national
economy – free public transport for
differently-abled people, integrated plan
involving MRT and buses in the Klang Valley, RM2
billion to double the number of buses and bus
routes, initiate steps towards building the first
inter-city high speed rail system in Southeast Asia
- Break monopolies to encourage competition –
- Anti-Monopoly Cmomission, Public Contracts
Commission to evaluate public agreements like
IPP and unfair concessions, break up monopolies
in communications, essential foods,
pharmaceuticals, civil aviation and other key
sectors, dissolve 1MDB, open tenders, disposal
and handover of government holdings in selected
government-linked companies (GLCs) via
management buy-out (MBO) to produce more
viable entrepreneurs
- Reform Islamic and religious institutions
- New remuneration and service packages for civil
servants
- Clean, fair and transparent elections
- Reform the judiciary, Attorney General's
Chambers, MACC and PDRM
- Reform Parliament
- Media freedom and restore trust in media
practitioners
- Abolish UUCA and ensure academic freedom
- Abolish legislation that is “anti-rakyat”
- Corruption Elimination Policy (DEBARAN) –
restructure the MACC to focus on big corruption
cases that involve the public interest, tighten
corruption-related legislation
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