Wind of Change for Sarawak!

I was in Sabah and Sarawak over the last weekend for Party events. Was in Kota Kinabalu on Friday night to give a talk to new party members and was the Speaker for the Sabah DAP convention. Flew to Kuching in the evening and was also the Speaker for Sarawak DAP Annual Convention on Sunday.

I was also invited to speak at the mammoth 350-table dinner in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of DAP Sarawak. It was my first ever speech in Kuching. I thanked the Kuching voters for started the "wind of change" in the 2006 state election where DAP won 3 seats in Kuching alone. I told them that the "political tsunami" on 8th March was triggered by Sarawak's "wind of change".

I said that the political landscape in Malaysia has changed tremendously after 308. In the last 42 years, DAP has always been labelled as "the opposition party". But after 308, we are now ruling party in Penang, Perak and Selangor and UMNO is the opposition there. I stated that we want to achieve not only one DAP Chief Ministership in Penang but also have the ambition of seeing a DAP Chief Minister in Sarawak!

The SUPP has anticipated that the DAP will bring its full force from Semenanjung to Sarawak in the next state election and I answered that, yes...we will be there for sure! We will give our full support to our Sarawakian comrades to topple the Barisan Nasional in Sarawak and send the "white hair" (nickname for Sarawak CM Taib Mahmud") out of office.

陸兆福：行動黨也要在砂州當首長
大馬 即時新聞 2008-12-15 14:26

(砂拉越‧古晉）行動黨社青團團長陸兆福表示，行動黨的夢想不單只是做一個州屬的首席部長，而且也要在砂拉越當首席部長。

他相信，如果大家配合與支持，並做行動黨的後盾，這個理想可以實現。

“來屆州選，我們一定會來，每一個選區會有2至3人來為砂州行動黨的候選人站台，一起打人聯黨，希望砂州在來屆州選會有更好的成績。”

他表示，常聽行動黨砂州領袖呼吁砂州人民學習西馬人在308大海嘯的精神，差一點把國陣打下來，但其實西馬同胞，特別是行動黨應感謝砂州人民，特別是古晉選民，因為308的反風是從砂州2006年州選吹到西馬。

“308後，馬來西亞的政壇很大求變，風水輪流轉，以前行動黨都是反對黨，現在不是了，在檳城、霹靂及雪州等，巫統是反對黨，我們是執政黨。”

陸兆福也是森州亞沙國會議員兼羅白州議員。他在上週日（12月14日）晚上出席行動黨砂州聯委會成立30週年紀念晚宴時說，行動黨一路來扮演反對黨，給馬華及民政黨等“欺負”，而砂州行動黨則是給人聯黨“欺負”。

“現在在西馬，馬華及民政黨做反對黨做得很可憐，他們在308後講敢怒敢言，是不是承認他們過去都不敢講話？以前我們都是去政府部門拉布條反對，如今馬華及國陣卻是在黨所拉布條，自己看，自己爽，都不會做反對黨。”

星洲互動‧2008.12.15.