KUALA LUMPUR - Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has bluntly said that the ruling coalition, the Barisan Nasional, will not give more political power to the Chinese until the Malays expand their economic stake in the country.

Writing in his popular blog on Monday, Dr Mahathir said he had to give the true reasons for the lack of Chinese in high posts after being "startled" by criticisms from a former lawmaker about the issue at a recent gathering.

"In the political field the Malays appear to be in control. Most of the high posts ... are held by the Malays. If these posts are held by the Chinese, then not only will the economy be under Chinese control but the political arena would also be under the Chinese.

"What will be the Malay stake in the country?" he wrote in the post titled "To be or not to be a racist".

He admitted that the Malays were also at fault for not making correct use of the opportunities created for them under the New Economic Policy, which has been around for almost 40 years.

But "since they have not gained a fair share in the economy, then they should be allowed to retain this greater share in politics," he reasoned. The Malaysian Insider

Source: Nen Nen

This post has been edited by MasBoleh!: Aug 11 2010, 07:26 PM

Updated with the source. I forgot to put source.

Actually , i saw this news in Singaporean forum , i wonder how come there's no such news in Malaysian forum .