PH has no moral ground to complain about councillors’ appointment

KUCHING: Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) president Dato Sri Tiong King Sing says Bukit Asek assemblywoman Irene Chang’s criticism of political appointment of local councillors by Sarawak government is baseless was an attempt to divert people’s attention away from the failings of Pakatan Harapan (PH).

He pointed out that PH coalition parties had promised council elections for years but until today, they have failed to fulfill these promises in Penang and Selangor which are governed by them.

“Chang’s logic is to restore local government elections on the basis that taxpayers have the right to choose competent councillors to serve in planning and developing public facilities.

“But their talk of giving this power to the people has not even materialised in the state governments that they had governed for years.

“With Penang and Selangor failing to implement local government elections, PH has no authority or ground to call for the same in Sarawak,” he said in a press statement.

The Bintulu MP noted that Chang seemed to have forgotten that the PH’s 100-Day promises are yet to be fulfilled because as they brazenly said, “they were not written in stone”.

He further pointed out that while PH criticised the political appointments by GPS, it had further violated its own election promise of not to make political appointments to public institutions and governmentlinked companies.