Press Statement from Y.B. Sim Tze Tzin, Penang Parti Keadilan Rakyat Youth Wing Vice Chairman and State Assemblyman of Pantai Jerejak.

21 June 2009

Parti Keadilan Rakyat Youth Wing strongly oppose Party Gerakan’s Vice President Huan Cheng Guan from joining the party. There are numerous rumour that Mr Huan might join Keadilan recently and the Penang Youth Wing feels the need to take a stand.

We observe a trend among Barisan Nasional leaders that often utilize Parti Keadilan as a jumping platform in order to further negotiate with their respective parties. The first incident was Datuk Arif Shah, the Seberang Jaya State Assembly, threatening UMNO to cross over to Keadilan in his fight with his Division Chairman. Second high profile incident was Dr. Chua Soi Lek in his spat with his President Ong Tee Keat, also threatened to cross over to Parti Keadilan. Now, Parti Gerakan’s Huan Cheng Guan is again taking this opportunistic approach to threaten his party.

Mr Huan has never indicated his intention to join Keadilan to fight for justice, human rights and democracy. All the while he threatened to leave just because he lost his position and influence in his party. Furthermore, his track record fell short of any substantial effort in improving democracy, rule of law and idealism to fight for social justice for the rakyat. Thus, very different from the idealism that exists in Parti Keadilan.

The grassroots among Parti Keadilan Rakyat despise these opportunistic Barisan Nasional Leaders and strongly urge the leadership to reject Mr. Huan. They have voiced up in various meetings and sent sms-es to urge the leaders to take a strong stand to prevent him from joining the party. The grassroots worried that these opportunistic BN leaders will bring in bad practises such as corruption, nepotism, money politics, and factionalism into the party. Penang Keadilan Youth Wing decided to stand up to this call to oppose Mr. Huan from joining the party.

We believe that he has no moral high ground to join the party and would gravely affect PKR’s standing and image as a progressive reformed party.

Parti Keadilan Rakyat welcomes any Malaysian who has the idealism and conviction to fight for democracy, social justice, rule of law for a better Malaysia. We especially welcome the youth to join because of their idealism and energy to bring in changes. We still have a long way and a lot of work to do, we need more young and idealistic youths to bring about changes. The last thing we need is opportunists to derail our effort to bring new dawn to Malaysia.

Sim Tze Tzin

State Assemblyman of Pantai Jerejak

Penang Parti Keadilan Rakyat Youth Vice Chairman

沈志勤-公正党槟州青年团副团长兼班台惹雅州议员文告

民政党副主席范清远渊日前遭民政党冻结党籍三年后，许多传闻他将率众加入公正党。公正党槟州青年团认为有必要对这个事件表态。公正党槟州青年团强烈反对范清渊跳槽加入公正党。

公正党槟州青年团认为许多国阵政治老油条常常利用公正党来加强本身在党内的谈判条件。最早前的是巫统士布朗再也州议员阿里沙，多次以跳槽来威胁巫统，提高党内名声来对抗区部主席。过后也传出马华署理主席蔡细历在党内默默不得志而愈加入公正党，进而提高在国阵内的谈判条件。最新事件是范清渊又故技重施来利用公正党来达致 本身在民政党的私人议程。

范清渊从来没有基于政治原则，社会正义，多元种族政治而欲加入公正党或民联。他始终是基于对党内利益分赃的不满而要退党。更何况，范清渊加入政治多年，没有鲜明的政治理想，对社会公正主义，民主人权，改革司法没有明显贡献，是与公正党的理念不符的。

我们对这些政治老油条的伎俩十分不齿，决定反映公正党槟州基层的声音，强烈反对范清渊加入。基层针对这起事件已经多次在各个不同会议提出抗议，也有许多短讯强烈反对他的加入。基层担心，这些国阵老油条加入公正党后，会把许多国阵的陋习如贪污腐败，金钱政治，派系斗争，争权夺利带进公正党。公正党槟州青年团决定尊重基层的声音，代表基层站出来表明立场。

这些国阵政治老油条的加入只会影响公正党的形象，缓慢我们的改革议程。

公正党欢迎的是有社会正义，民主人权，改革马来西亚理念的 人加入，尤其是年轻人。年轻人将会壮大308政治海啸后，改革国家的行列。我们还有许多改革议程需要进行，我们需要有理想，有理念的年轻人加入。

沈志勤启

公正党槟州青年团副团长兼班台惹雅州议员