The minister says the opposition will do this to save face, just like it did in GE13, claiming blackouts and Bangladeshis cheated them of a win.
Minister Salleh Said Keruak says the opposition raised all sorts of allegations of fraud to explain why they lost in GE13.
KUALA LUMPUR: The opposition is claiming the Barisan Nasional is going to cheat and win the 14th general election (GE14). This is just like it did before GE13, Salleh Said Keruak said today.
In a blog post, the communications and multimedia minister described this as a “pre-emptive strike” by Pakatan Harapan (PH).
“They knew they would not win GE13, so before the election they ‘predicted’ they would lose due to fraud.
“After the election, they raised all sorts of allegations of fraud to explain why they lost.
“Now they are doing it again.
“Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said in his blog today that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is going to cheat in GE14 on May 9, 2018 so that when they lose the election they can save face by blaming it on fraud, like they did in 2013.”
Salleh said just before the 2013 general election, the then Pakatan Rakyat leaders went all over the country saying that the BN was going to cheat to win the election.
“After the election, they said the lights went out due to a power failure in certain places while the votes were being counted, extra ballot boxes were brought in to certain places, tens of thousands of phantom voters were flown in from Bangladesh, and so on.
“All these were later proven false.
“Even the Bangladesh high commission denied that tens of thousands of its nationals were flown in to vote in Malaysia. This would require more than 100 chartered planes.
“And the places where they said the lights went out confirmed that they never experienced any power failure.
“Even the opposition workers in the places where they said extra ballot boxes were brought in denied these incidents.”
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