The Malaysian Insight

PAKATAN Harapan has formed a special committee to review its election promises, in light of public anger at the ruling pact’s inability to fulfil some of them, said Anwar Ibrahim.

The PKR president was responding to a call by fellow PH leader Lim Kit Siang, a DAP veteran, who said it is time that the coalition review its polls pledges and come clean to the public on which are impossible to achieve.

Iskandar Puteri MP Lim, in his speech at an economic symposium in the Parliament building today, said it is better for PH to be honest about the matter.

Prime minister-in-waiting Anwar told reporters later about the committee, formed by the PH presidential council.

The Port Dickson lawmaker, in his speech earlier, addressed Lim’s suggestion and acknowledged the public dissatisfaction over the PH government’s backtracking on some promises.

These pledges, which were contained in Buku Harapan, the pact’s election manifesto, have yet to be fulfilled due to the government’s financial constraints, and because some require constitutional amendments.

They include postponing the repayment of tertiary education loans and ensuring that appointments to important public sector positions are not made solely by the prime minister.

Anwar, in his speech, pointed to the people’s high expectations of PH after living under Barisan Nasional rule for six decades.

“(The 14th general election) was a huge transformation… it challenges our capability to fulfil these promises because the hopes of the people are very high. If the government cannot meet these expectations and cannot uplift the people, then we will fall (in GE15).” – July 26, 2019.