The voters need to be wise enough to overcome the dirty money politics of GE15. In the coming state elections, they must reject false promises and not accept the handouts.
A political commentator and technocrat, Dr G. Raju, said the handouts from the corrupt money belonged to the taxpayers.
"Corrupt politicians derived the money from inflated government project contract prices. It is unfair to take money from the Treasury (taxpayers' money) through to scheme and evil means to pay the citizens to vote for a party that bribe voters. It was done in GE15, and the authorities should check such malpractices," said Raju, former Associate Professor of Universiti Technology Malaysia.
Dr Raju was also a senior research officer at Tenaga Nasional and a member of the Asian Research, Development and Engineering Committee.
Dr Raju added that people's hard-earned tax money was robbed shamelessly without remorse and at the ballot box. "Let's hope the voters will wisely, vote for honesty, integrity, openness and fairness as practiced by the Anwar Ibrahim government. We must ditch the corrupted wolves, cheats, robbers and money launderers."
The current Unity government helmed by Anwar, Raju said, has been clearing the muddy lanes on many fronts to bring about a rapid economic recovery. "Corrupt politicians are flashing their huge illicit wealth to deter the government's progress from preventing the probe on their huge illicit wealth."
Based on the progress the current Government has achieved on various fronts with accountability, transparency, Rule of Law, impartiality, public service responsibility and equality as per the Federal Constitution, Raju added.
"The government of the day is firm and unshakable ground because the people are now well informed of the situation on the ground."
To further strengthen the trust, Dr Raju said the Government must counter the spread of misinformation and disinformation and reinforce the Government's integrity, honesty, fairness and justice system.
He called for the Elections Commission's enforcement officials to fine and dismiss anyone paying handouts to voters and not allow them to contest in the elections.
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