{"id":2531,"date":"2010-09-09T22:29:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T14:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2021-02-05T23:14:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:14:32","slug":"social-contract-political-contract-or-hit-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/social-contract-political-contract-or-hit-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Contract, Political Contract, or Hit Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.2px;\"><strong>By NURUL IZZAH ANWAR<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.2px;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13.2px;\">Opinion 2010-09-09 02:14<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mysinchew.com\/files\/preview\/292x300..zzpix%20--%20Newspix%20--%20Nurul%20Izzah%20Anwar%20001_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I refer to the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak\u2019s reminder to all Malaysians not to question \u201cprovisions in the Constitution, particularly those related to the &#8220;social contract.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister also said, and I quote: \u201cPlease remember that it is our responsibility to care for the country for our future generations. Let us not damage what is already in good condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If we cannot discuss the \u201csocial contract\u201d, then can we instead discuss the \u201cpolitical contract\u201d, that should be built on a free and fair election supported by a functioning fourth estate, a free media?<\/p>\n<p>If people cannot have reliable information, exchange opinions or even have their dissenting voices heard through a free and independent media, and vote for their legitimate representatives at all three levels of government \u2014 local, state and federal \u2014 in a free and fair manner, then what kind of \u201cpolitical contract\u201d have the people be handed with?<\/p>\n<p>It would be more like a \u201chit contract\u201d, where only the people get \u201chit\u201d with state propaganda and \u201chit\u201d again at the ballot box through unfair electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I wish to invite the prime minister to participate in an open and honourable discussion on election reforms and freedom of the media, which I believe would complement and assure the success of the New Economic Model (NEM) being proposed soon by the prime minister himself as announced recently.<\/p>\n<p>If we still cannot discuss or debate on our \u201cpolitical contract\u201d, then do tell us what can be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I humbly await the prime minister\u2019s honourable reply<\/p>\n[<em> Nurul Izzah Anwar is the MP Lembah Pantai<\/em>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By NURUL IZZAH ANWAR Opinion 2010-09-09 02:14 I refer to the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak\u2019s reminder to all Malaysians not to question \u201cprovisions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[696,756,759,757,758,755,151,144,754,579],"class_list":{"0":"post-2531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-education","7":"tag-constitution","8":"tag-free-election","9":"tag-freedom","10":"tag-independent-media","11":"tag-nem","12":"tag-political-contract","13":"tag-prime-minister","14":"tag-reform","15":"tag-social-contract","16":"tag-vote"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}