The BN chairman said the government was not free of shortcomings, but it has brought improvements and changes in accordance with the people’s wishes.

“Against the backdrop of the global economic crisis, falling oil prices and devaluation of the ringgit, we have fulfilled close to 99.4% of the promises of the past elections, with the remaining promises currently in the process of completion,” he said.

“We are confident we have given our best to provide services in priority areas such as education, health and security,” he told thousands of supporters at the Axiata Stadium in Bukit Jalil tonight.

Najib said the current manifesto should be taken together with the 11th Malaysia Plan (11MP), the National Transformation 2050 (TN50) initiative and the annual budgets by Putrajaya.

He said the government had also listened to the people, holding “thousands of discussions” with groups representing different ideologies, educational backgrounds, ethnicities and religions, in drafting the TN50, its 30-year plan to chart Malaysia’s direction.

Najib said no citizen had been neglected or denied government support.

“As many as seven million people have received support through 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M), even though a portion of them do not live in poverty,” he said, referring to the cash aid programme.

The coming polls will be Najib’s second as prime minister, after failing to regain BN’s two-third majority lost under his predecessor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in 2008.

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