Nizar for Parliament? & various snippets

Malaysian Insider - Guan Eng: We’ve always opposed hopping which reported:

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said the party had never ceased asking for an ‘anti-hopping’ law — even when Pakatan Rakyat (PR) de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced the supposed crossover of Barisan Nasional (BN) members of parliaments on Sept 16 last year.

“This is the DAP policy...I have tried to be like a brother’s keeper but sometimes, we cannot be the keeper all the time.

‘… brother’s keeper …' eh? Genesis 4:9 – go on, Cain, do the political needful wakakaka!

But good on you Guan Eng, I was beginning to despair of you and your dad.


Malaysiakini - Perak crisis: Down a dark alley by Dzulkefly Ahmad (head of PAS research centre and the MP for Kuala Selangor). He wrote (relevant extracts):

All hopes were naturally pinned on Sultan Azlan Shah’s decision, but revisiting his judgment makes one really wonder what has gone wrong with this great legal mind.

Not willing to fulfill Nizar’s request, the sultan has contradicted the position he preached in 2004, in a book called ‘Constitutional Monarchy, Rule of Law and Good Governance’.

He wrote: ‘Under normal circumstances, it is taken for granted that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong would not withhold his consent to a request for dissolution of parliament. His role is purely formal.’

He also noted that no sultan or Agong had withheld consent to dissolve a legislative body, except in Kelantan in 1977.

Quite sadly, the sultan was adamant about what he wanted - for Nizar to step down immediately and a few hours later, to back the appointment of the new menteri besar.

That was immensely regrettable that sultan could no longer grasp the heartbeat of the majority of his people who had voted in the Pakatan-led government 11 months ago. Many have alluded that his discretionary power has played into the hands of the other power-that-be.

Going against the rule of law places the state in the act of forming an illegal government. The sultan must undo the crisis, judiciously and beyond partisan interests. Otherwise he runs the risk of living with an illegitimate MB and an illegal state government advising him.

Not only that, Dzul, he is now a ruler afraid to meet his rakyat.


Malaysiakini - Karpal refuses to apologise still, protests mounting

Does a lion heed a pack of jackals?


Malaysian Insider - Nik Aziz: Don’t be the candidate, Nizar.

Why not, Pak Haji?

Nizar could well be the new leader of Pakatan Rakyat and a future PM!

(BTW Pak Haji, puhleeeze lah, Arumugum is NOT a man ‘with principle’, but ‘with 2 wives’ – wakakaka)