THE Pakatan Rakyat today announced it was boycotting Utusan Malaysia and Mingguan Malaysia for allegedly running a smear campaign against the opposition. Reading a prepared statement, opposition bench chief and PKR president Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said the two publications have been criticising and painting PR members in a bad light as if "still on an election campaign".
She also charged that Utusan was stoking narrow-minded racial sentiments to incite the anger of the Malays against PR leaders.
Wan Azizah announced this in a brief press conference, attended by DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, PAS deputy president Nasharudin Mat Isa and Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim.
However, after reading the statement the PR leaders refused to take questions from the media.
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I hope the boycott will be able to teach Utusan Malaysia a lesson or two not to play with racial issues to sell its papers provided they are dependent of revenue from sales of the paper.
Pakatan Rakyat have successfully boycotted Mamak Restaurant and The Star as well NST.
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