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Undilah PAS : MENENTANG KEZALIMAN & MENEGAKKAN KEADILAN
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Wan Azizah - terjunnya ke dunia politik
- mempunyai signifikan yg besar
- memperlihatkan bagaimana seorang tokoh/figure politik terbentuk oleh
suasana
- senario perjuangan yang menarik dalam lipatan sejarah - terutama ianya
berlaku di hadapan mata kita.
Anwar's wife admits political debut is a daunting experience
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 (AFP) - Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, making her
political debut with a
husband in jail and a family of six to raise, admits the
experience is far from easy.
"It is difficult but we have friends and supporters," the wife of
Malaysia's sacked deputy premier
Anwar Ibrahim told AFP in an interview late Wednesday after
meetings to prepare for the
November 29 general election.
"I am not trained but I do it. I think the masses can read
sincerity and values."
Wan Azizah founded her National Justice Party on April 4, ten days
before her husband was jailed
for six years for abusing his official powers to cover up
allegations of sexual misconduct.
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad had sacked Anwar as deputy premier
and finance minister in
September 1998.
He was detained soon afterwards after leading mass anti-government
protests and is now on
trial for sodomy, which is punishable by up to 20 years.
Analysts have predicted a bitter and personalised election
campaign, with the focus on Mahathir,
73, and his 52-year-old former protege. They say the Anwar issue
has split the loyalties of the
ethnic Malay community.
Asked about the main focus of the election, Wan Azizah replied:
"It is Anwar, it is justice..."
She also cited corruption, cronyism, an unfair distribution of
wealth, good government,
accountability and transparency.
"These are things that are beyond Anwar Ibrahim but these are the
things also that Anwar tried
do within the party. But he failed."
Anwar has been making allegations in court of high-level
corruption in government. Similar
allegations have also been made against him.
Wan Azizah's party is part of an opposition Alternative Front also
including the
Chinese-dominated Democratic Action Party, the Parti Islam
SeMalaysia (PAS) and the small
Malaysian People's Party. Anwar is its candidate for premier.
Its common manifesto vows to end what it calls the system of
"blind loyalty" to one man.
"The prime minister holds lots of power, the judiciary, the
selection of judges, the
Anti-Corruption Agency is under the Prime Minister's Department,"
Wan Azizah said.
"He expects ministers to declare their wealth to him...but who
does he declare his wealth to?"
She acknowledged that Mahathir had brought "a lot of
modernity...and a touch of discipline" to
Malaysia but criticised his mega projects as "very expensive
symbols" when the priority should be
upgrading basic infrastructure like the drainage system and
improving agriculture.
"He did develop the country to begin with but after a while it
became more and more monuments
and more and more projects that enrich an elite well connected to
the prime minister."
Wan Azizah, a Dublin-trained opthalmologist by profession, said
she expected a "strong showing"
in the election, in which she will contest Anwar's former seat in
Penang state, but also an uphill
battle.
She complained of the exclusion of more than 650,000 new voters
not yet on the electoral roll,
slanted media coverage and irregularities in postal voting.
The government has attacked the opposition alliance as a marriage
of convenience and depicted
PAS as an extremist party.
Wan Azizah admitted the Alternative Front was "quite diverse" but
said PAS's aim of making
Malaysia an Islamic state was not on its manifesto.
Predictions by Mahathir that Anwar would instigate riots after the
election were a tactic to scare
the Chinese community "to vote for continuing supposed stability,"
she said.
Asked why Mahathir had taken action against her husband, she
replied: "I wish I knew...possibly
because my husband is relatively young."
Wan Azizah said the "ruling elite" had been alarmed by a legal
amendment passed when Anwar
was acting premier, which allowed prosecution of senior leaders
for corruption even after leaving
office.
The elite, she said, had persuaded Mahathir that Anwar was a
political threat.
Asked about the past 14 months, Wan Azizah, 46, admitted to
moments of despair.
"I never expected this to happen but it has happened and I have
responsibilities...I have to keep
the family and I have to think of my husband and the things he has
gone through."
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