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KUCHING: Ketua Umum KEADILAN, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berkata, Pakatan Rakyat yakin dapat menafikan majoriti dua pertiga Barisan Nasional dalam Pilihan Raya Negeri Sarawak yang bakal berlangsung kurang 24 jam dari sekarang.

Dalam sidang media terakhir beliau sebelum hari pengundian esok, Anwar berkata, keyakinan itu berlandaskan perkembangan melalui respon rakyat sepanjang tempohnya berkempen selama 13 hari di sini.

“Kita optimis dapat menafikan majoriti dua pertiga Barisan Nasional, bahkan harapan kita adalah lebih dari itu, iaitu mahu menubuhkan kerajaan di Sarawak.

“Ia tidak mudah, kerana pilihan raya ini tidak dijalankan dengan bebas dan adil. Keprihatinan kami adalah berdasarkan perkembangan beberapa jam mulai sekarang,”

katanya pada sidang media di Hotel Grand Continental, pagi tadi.

Anwar menegaskan, Pakatan Rakyat sebenarnya bukan berhadapan dengan Barisan Nasional, tetapi jentera kerajaan yang ditunggangi Barisan Nasional.

“Barisan Nasional tiada wibawa, sehinggakan ketika mereka menganjurkan program pun, terpaksa menggunakan kapasiti sebagai jawatan Menteri.

“Jika mereka duduk di atas nama Barisan Nasional, ia tidak mendapat sambutan,” kata Anwar.

Dalam pada itu, Anwar berkata, usaha pihak tertentu yang melakukan rekayasa di media menjelang tidak lebih 24 jam dari tarikh pengundian merupakan percubaan untuk mengalihkan pandangan rakyat Sarawak daripada melakukan perubahan.

“Fokus sekarang ini adalah rakyat mahu tentukan pemilihan kepimpinan di Sarawak. Jangan benarkan sesiapa alih pandangan. Lusa boleh bincang tentang Anwar.

“…Nak bincang boleh. 17 haribulan boleh teruskan serangan seperti biasa terhadap Anwar,” kata Anwar.

Turut hadir dalam sidang media tersebut ialah Presiden KEADILAN, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Timbalan Presiden, Mohamed Azmin Ali dan Setiausaha Agung KEADILAN, Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

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With just 12 hours left on the campaign clock, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has confidently declared that Pakatan Rakyat is now looking beyond denying Barisan Nasional its two-thirds majority and aiming to capture Sarawak.

But the PR de facto leader said the final hours would prove crucial to ensure BN’s last-ditched attempt to use money politics and underhanded tactics to steal opposition votes would not succeed.

“We are very optimistic we are going to go far beyond that (denying two-thirds), we are pushing to deny BN its monopoly of the state,” he said.

But Anwar stopped short of saying the opposition pact would wrest the hornbill state from BN entirely, reiterating that the alleged deployment of BN agents to buy votes would be hard to stop.

“We are pushing towards that although we know it is still uphill.

“But if the process has been free and fair from the beginning, I have no qualms about that… however, we are fighting against the entire government machinery.

“We are concerned of the development in the next few hours,” he said.

Just two days back, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had admitted that retaining its two-thirds majority in the 71-seat state assembly would be a “bonus”.

BN’s campaign for Sarawak, led by Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud for 30 years, thus far has been described by many as lacklustre, heavily bogged down by the anti-Taib stigma and the numerous allegations of corruption and abuse of power.