GE13: Najib confident first-time voters will set country in right direction

Rousing reception: Najib getting a warm welcome from Barisan supporters during the ground-breaking ceremony for Universiti Teknologi Mara in Raub.

 

PEKAN: The results of the 13th general election will depend very much on the choice of young voters, especially those voting for the first time.

Barisan Nasional chairman Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said this was evident by the number of first-time voters in the Pekan constituency.

“Of some 80,000 voters in Pekan, about 24,000 are first-time voters,” said Najib, who is the incumbent MP, at a gathering with young voters here yesterday.

The Prime Minister was confident the majority of youths would support a Barisan government.

“In other countries, youths are restless, angry, full of hatred and always demanding for the government to be changed.

“They behave that way because their leaders do not care about them.

“In Malaysia, we have governed the country well. We have provided hundreds of thousands of jobs and I have promised 3.3 million jobs by 2020,” he said.

Najib added that training schemes and an education system that provide opportunities as well as various youth programmes had been organised by the Government.

“This is why in Malaysia, our youths are not angry with the Government.

“Youths will prove in this elections that they know only Barisan can guarantee their future,” he said.
At the launch of a new building at SJKC Pekan earlier, Najib called on the constituents to give him the biggest support.

He said this was his first time contesting the seat as the Prime Minister and he needed their support.
“Anything we want to do on the national level starts from the Pekan grassroots because I am contesting here,” he said.

Najib also announced a RM300,000 allocation for the construction of a pre-school block for the school.

(Source: The Star Online)