PSM central committee member Dr Michael Jeyakumar warns of a decline in B40 support for PH due to the perceived failure to address issues faced by the poor.
PSM’s Dr Michael Jeyakumar highlights concerns over the minimum wage and lack of affordable housing for the B40.
Under BN, he said, these smallholders received small stipends whenever the price of scrap rubber fell below RM2.20. He was referring to the RM200 monthly aid for fishermen which was axed after PH took over Putrajaya. PH later agreed to restore “additional allocations” but only seven months after the general election.
“My estimate is about 25% of the Malays voted for PH in GE14,” he said. “The other 75% voted for PAS and Umno because they didn’t quite trust PH.”Claiming there has been a decline in B40 support for the government, he attributed this Putrajaya’s failure to “adequately address” issues like the weakening ringgit and rise in cost of goods.
“They talk about affordable housing. But for whom is RM200,000 affordable? Not the B40,” he said, referring to the RM200,000-RM500,000 threshold price for affordable housing in the peninsula.
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