KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 10): DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang said while the 2023 Budget is the biggest in nation’s history, it is no game-changer to resolve the economic crisis, raise the quality of education, ensure that Malaysia will not be a poor performer in another global pandemic or make Malaysia a world-class nation.

In a statement on Sunday (Oct 9), the member of parliament for Iskandar Puteri said while the Budget rained money, with goodies all around, it does nothing to reverse the trajectory of the country in the past few decades of losing out to Taiwan,  Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Vietnam and more countries to come in future years.

“And clearly, it will do nothing to ensure that Malaysia’s ranking and score in the 2022 Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) which will be announced in January next year will not  be worse  than TI CPI 2021.

“What Malaysia needs a reset of nation-building principles and policies to transform Malaysia from the trajectory of a kleptocracy, kakistoracy and a failed state to a  “tiger” economy  and a world-class great nation,” he said.