Anwar Ibrahim slammed a widening deficit in the government's 2009 budget and vowed to unveil a more responsible budget if he topples the ruling coalition this month. He said his plans to seize power from the Barisan Nasional led government through parliamentary defections by Sept. 16 remains on track.
Anwar said he has held talks with ruling party lawmakers and the response was "very good" but declined to elaborate.
Anwar said the opposition's budget will focus on wooing foreign investment by dismantling a 37-year-old affirmative action policy which gives privileges in contracts, jobs, business and education to ethnic Malays.
He bluntly claimed that he would dismantle the controversial positive-discrimination policies for Muslim Malays if he seizes power.
He also said, "Archaic" policies that demand mandatory Malay equity in companies will be removed and open tenders called for all government contracts, currently reserved mostly for Malay companies.
He claimed The New Economic Policy was started in 1971 to help Malays, who form 60 percent of Malaysia's 27 million people, after 1969 violent race riots. But foreign investors and minority groups long complained it amounted to protectionism. The policy has been a stumbling block to Malaysia's plan for a free trade pact with the U.S.
All this is in the international news!
Who is Anwar Ibrahim? He was once part of the government which practised this policies. Now he is singing a different tune. Is he a hypocrite? A Malay traitor? A U.S stooge and agent?
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