CYBERJAYA – Barisan Nasional’s (BN) candidate for Sg Buloh, Khairy Jamaluddin, took a jab at Pakatan Harapan (PH) parties’ differing stance on asset declarations by election candidates.
He pointed out that while PKR is making it mandatory for its candidates contesting in the 15th general election (GE15), its allies in PH are not following suit.
“PKR doing it is fine, but then its friends are not doing the same. DAP did not do it. So each (party) has its own stance,” the caretaker health minister said at a press conference at Cyberjaya Hospital today.
Khairy said he had no issue declaring his assets, and that the practice had long been adopted by BN and Umno for lawmakers appointed to the cabinet or to government positions.
“Everyone has a stance, but ours is to declare assets after being appointed to a position in the government,” he said.
“It has indeed been our practice from the start. I have already declared my assets with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.”
DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke yesterday said the party does not have a policy requiring election candidates to declare their assets.
However, he said if elected as the federal government, they would then declare their assets, as done previously when PH formed the government.
In Sg Buloh, other candidates besides Khairy are PH’s Datuk R. Ramanan, Perikatan Nasional’s Mohd Ghazali Md Hamin (PN), Mohd Akmal Yusoff from Pejuang, Ahmad Jufliz Faiza from PRM, and two independent candidates.
The Sg Buloh parliamentary seat was won by PH’s R. Sivarasa in 2018, with a majority of 26,634 votes. – The Vibes, November 11, 2022
