The PR de facto leader said the pact will follow the law when dealing with those who have committed offences in the past.
“People say if we take over, we will start arresting our political foes but let me say here, I promise there will not be any retributive justice.
“We will follow the rule of law,” he told the thousands last night who turned up to celebrate the pact’s fifth anniversary celebration of its takeover of Penang and other states in Election 2008.
The rally at the Esplanade here included the International Women’s Day celebration and Malaysia Film Festival from 4pm but the crowd only started streaming in at 8pm.
By 10pm, the crowd had swelled but did not fill the whole Esplanade.
However, the sentiments of the crowd were as passionate in their responses to the speakers on the stage especially to Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and Anwar.
Anwar also rallied Penangites to continue supporting PR based on its exemplary record in the past five years.
“Previously, we can only promise you what we want to do if we win but now, we have a five-year track record that we can show you what we are capable of doing,” he said.
People say if we take over, we will start arresting our political foes but let me say here, I promise there will not be any retributive justice. We will follow the rule of law. — Anwar IbrahimPraising Lim for leading Penang with integrity, Anwar said Penang is the perfect example of good governance and a clean administration.
“We can trust Lim to continue to lead the state to greater heights,” he said.
He also pointed out that the state government had taken up the task of building affordable homes for the public when this is clearly the federal government’s responsibility.
“It is because of the federal government’s incompetence that the state government had to take over the responsibility of building affordable homes for the people,” he said.
Lim announced at the rally that Penang was building another 3,000 units of affordable homes on the island bringing the total units of affordable houses to be built in the state to 22,172.
“We are going to build the 3,000 units on the island, in addition to the earlier announced 19,172 units and we will allocate another RM150 million for this project,” he said.
The state government has already allocated RM500 million to build 19,172 units of affordable homes through Penang Development Corporation (PDC).
The rally ended slightly after midnight without any incident though some of the demonstrators, who had tried to break down the glass doors leading to the state administrative offices in Komtar, were seen loitering around the area in small groups of two to three.