Pakatan fields social activist Tee in Senai state seat

KULAI: A social activist has been announced as the Pakatan Harapan candidate for the Senai state seat.

Tee Boon Tsong, 39, who is a former vice-chairman of an NGO known as Johor Yellow Flame, will replace incumbent assemblyman Wong Shu Qi.

Wong is tipped to go for the Labis parliamentary seat.

When met, Tee thanked Pakatan for picking him as a candidate, saying he hoped to use politics as a platform to help improve people’s lives.

Asked about his chances of victory, he acknowledged that he had big shoes to fill as Wong was a popular figure in the area.

Wong, who declined to say where she would be contesting, said she would abide by DAP’s instructions even if it meant contesting in “difficult” areas.

DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang, who announced Tee as the candidate, called for the setting-up of a parliamentary select committee to further discuss the Anti-Fake News Bill.

He said even in Singapore, the republic formed a similar committee to study the matter in depth.

“Why is the Bill being rushed in Malaysia?” he asked.

Lim also hit out at the redelineation exercise by the Election Commission, describing it as the worst case of gerrymandering in the country’s history.

Yesterday, Lim launched the Kulai Pakatan Harapan operation centre. In his speech, he joked with the crowd, asking whether they could see him.

He told them of last Thursday’s incident in which Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia said he could not “see” him inside the august house.

(Lim had attended the sitting despite being suspended for six months. Pandikar Amin “ignored” Lim by saying that he could not see him.)

“If I as an MP and representative of the people could not be seen, what more the ordinary rakyat?”

“That is why everybody should come out and vote so that when we take over Putrajaya, we will make sure that the voices of the rakyat are heard,” he said.

Lim also said Pakatan only ­needed another swing of 5% in urban areas and 15% in rural areas to win GE14.