PUTRAJAYA, Aug 18 — DAP today reiterated its call for the government to honour Pakatan Harapan’s election pledge of equal Constituency Development Funds (CDF) for all Members of Parliament.
National chairman Gobind Singh Deo said the party had conveyed the matter to the Prime Minister numerous times and stressed that the commitment must be implemented without further delay.
Pakatan Harapan’s manifesto, he noted, expressly commits to equal allocations for all MPs, based on the principle that voters should not be disadvantaged because of political choices or affiliations.
Gobind welcomed the Prime Minister’s recent announcement of additional direct funds for constituencies but said the move did not resolve the core issue.
“This will indeed be most helpful, but it does not resolve the core issue, which is the commitment to providing equal, non discriminatory allocations to every MP,” he said in a statement.
He added that legislation should be introduced to institutionalise equal allocations, ensuring transparency and removing political discretion from the process.
“I therefore urge the Prime Minister to address the delay and move forward with first providing all MPs with equal allocations, and subsequently enacting legislation that permanently secures equal constituency allocations for every MP in Malaysia,” he said.
