“You scratch my back and I'll
scratch yours.”
English idiom
You do a favor for me and
I'll do a favor for you.; If you do something for me that I cannot do for
myself, I will do something for you that you cannot do for yourself.
“You help me, I help you.”
Najib Razak, 2010 May 15th
The Prime Minister of
Malaysia, ( leader of the ruling collation BN ) Najib Razak during his visit to
Rejang Park, a Chinese majority housing estate in Sibu, Sarawak, campaigning
for SUPP’s Robert Lau during Sibu parliamentary by-election. Najib promised the voters RM5 million to
alleviate floods if Robert Lau win the seat.
The by-election was won by
DAP’s Richard Wong by a simple majority of 398 votes.
Najib’s vote-buying
promises were deem morally inappropriate for some, yet anyone sensible would
know its a broad daylight bribery. The Malaysian Parliament claimed that Najib did not
violating Election Offences Act. In 2009, the Federal Court made a decision
that promises to bring development during election campaign are not an act of
bribery.
Till today, many parts of
Sibu remain flood-prone, in addition to tones of other perennial problems.
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