Malay ‘tsunami' will not occur, says Najib
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is confident that the Malay tsunami which is often played up the Opposition, will not occur in the 14th General Election (GE14).
Najib, who is also Barisan Nasional chairman, said this was based on the fact that the huge crowd which turned up at Opposition political programmes were only concentrated in nonMalay areas.
“If we look at the talks by the Opposition, they are mostly in the urban areas, and many of those present are non-Malays, mostly DAP supporters, and we know they also use buses to bring supporters from outside, they are not only local supporters.
“I always say I do not need to have a large number of attendees (at events), but I want local voters, locals to attend (the BN programmes), so if we get 10,000 for example who are locals, it's better than if we get 20,000, but mostly outsiders,” he said during the ‘Mandat' talk-show which was broadcast live on TV3 last night.
The one-hour programme was hosted by Prof Dr Sivamurugan Pandian and Assoc Prof Azmi Hassan.
Najib, when asked of the possibility of a Malay tsunami on May 9, similar to that of the Chinese tsunami in the 2013 General Election said what was happening at the moment was Tsunami ‘Fitnah' (defamation) which had forced BN to explain the true situation to the public.