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This 916 Movement is a Think and Action Tank dedicated to fellow Malaysians and friends of Malaysia who wish to see and bring about a better future for Malaysia.
The Current Mission of 916 Movement is to assist the Pakatan Rakyat to form Federal Government at GE13
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There you go, this is how UMNO stays in power, ie instructing its army officers to mark on voting papers: “Sayalah yang pangkah dacing pada kertas-kertas undi tu. Saya pangkah BN. Banyak tuan.” = “I’m the one who marked the balance (ie BN’s Logo) on the voting slips. I marked BN. Lots of them, sir.”
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UNDI POS : Pengakuan seorang bekas anggota Tentera
Posted by Anak Sungai Derhaka at 9:48:00 PM
Pengakuan ini dibuat oleh Kepten Mejer (B) ABu Bin Kassim dihadapan Suruhanjaya SPR. Berikut adalah sedutan pertemuan kami dengan SPR. Pada hari isnin 28hb September 2009 pimpinan PAS yang diketui oleh YB. Dato Abdul Halim Bin Abd Rahman telah berjumpa dengan SPR. Wakil PAS adalah YB. Salahuddin Ayub, Sdr. Kamaruzaman, YB Firdaus, saya sendiri Suhaizan Kayat dan ramai lagi.
Pihak SPR pula dibarisi oleh Pengerusinya Tan Sri Abd Aziz Bin Mohd Yusof, Timbalan Pengerusi Dato Wan Ahmad Wan Omar dan lain-lain lagi. Berikut adalah sedutan ucapan saya dalam pertemuan tersebut.
Suhaizan Kaiat : Selepas Komanden menerima Karung Khas SPR yang di dalamnya terdapat Sampul-sampul Keutamaan dan selepas Proses Penyerahan pada hari pertama bagi menunggu Proses Penyerahan untuk hari yang kedua Karung Khas SPR akan disimpan dalam Gurd Post tentera atau lokup polis atau bilik kebal SPR.
Pihak EPP(Ejen Pengundian Pos) tidak dibenarkan berkawal kerana kedua-duanya adalah kawasan larangan untuk orang awam. Keadaan ini mencurigakan. Terdedah kepada sabotaj daripada pihak-pihak tertentu.
Kes Al-Maunah dan suspek lari daripada lokup di Kota Tinggi tahun 2008 merupakan bukti-bukti yang balai polis dan Kem Tentera tiada jaminan Karung Khas SPR selamat.
Dato’ Wan Ahmad Wan Omar : Jadi tuan tidak percaya dengan tentera dan polis lah?
Suhaizan Bin Kaiat : Maaf Pengerusi saya minta bekas anggota tentera Pak Abu Kassim berpangkat Kapten Mejer(B) yang turut sama datang hari ini beritahu kita bagaimana beliau handle Karung Khas SPR semasa bertugas.
Pak Abu Kassim : Maaf tuan. Saya ni bekas anggota tentera. Terlibat dalam pentadbiran. Sayalah yang pangkah dacing pada kertas-kertas undi tu. Saya pangkah BN. Banyak tuan.
Tan Sri Abd Aziz : Kenapa tak pangkah bulan ? Pak Abu Kassim : Saya pangkahkan bulan juga tapi saya rosakan borang 2. Saya takut masa tu tuan sebab pegawai saya duduk belakang saya. Saya patuh ajalah arahan dia.
Tan Sri Abd Aziz : Bila tu Pak Abu? Pak Abu Kassim : Masa saya bertugas sebelum tahun 2000.
Tan Sri Abd Aziz : Itu cerita lama. Sekarang era saya tak akan berlaku lagi.
Suhaizan Kaiat : Lama memang lama. Tapi sistem tetap sama tuan.
Tan Sri Abd Aziz : Sekarang tidak akan berlaku lagi.
Suhaizan Bin Kaiat : Saya minta EPP(Ejen Pengundian Pos) dibenarkan mengawal 24jam tuan.
Dato Wan Omar : Perkara tersebut tidak ada dalam undang-undang. Nanti SPR kena pertisen pulak. Kawalan ini telah dibuat oleh pihak tentera dan polis. Mengapa kita curiga?
Pak Abu Kassim : Maaf tuan. Masa saya jaga kawalan selepas saya berhenti tentera. Tahun 2000. Masa Roslan Kassim lawan Sothinathan. Tan Sri Isa Samad mahu masuk dalam kawasan Majlis Daerah PD. Saya yang halang tuan.
Dato’ Wan Omar : Saya pun tak pasti Pak Abu ni. Saya banyak terima aduan macam ni. Saya pun tak pasti. Pak Abu begitu lancar sekali. Tan Sri Isa masuk tu tak de bukti. Lagi pun pihak lagi satu(UMNO) pun tidak ada disini untuk mempertahankannya.
YB. Dr Maria : Bukan kita tidak percaya dengan polis dan tentera Tan Sri Pengerusi tetapi kejadian-kejadian yang telah berlaku sebelum ini telah membuktikan bahawa manipulasi tersebut berlaku. Kita kena kawal semua ini Tan Sri.
Pertemuan ini bermula jam 11.30 pagi dan berakhir jam 2 ptg.
Banyak perkara yang dibincangkan. Tetapi tiada suatu pun komitmen SPR untuk berubah dalam pilihanraya Bagan Pinang ini. SPR nampak baik aja. Tetapi sebenarnya SPR menyimpan pekung yang sangat besar dalam pengurusan UNDI POS
Suhaizan Bin Kayat
Pengerusi J/K Khas Undi POS
Dewan Pemuda Pas Pusat
Source: http://darisungaiderhaka.blogspot.com/2009/10/undi-pos-pengakuan-seorang-bekas.html
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Isa?
Goodness! As Mahathir and Ku Li had asked, is UMNO running out of candidates of calibre?
Sure, Isa did serve well (well, according to them).
But there is one stain; Isa was found guilty of corruption by UMNO itself.
So, how come UMNO can now turn around and say that it is OK to nominate Isa?
It is either, OK, Isa was guilty but has already been punished. So, it is OK for him to come back.
Or it is that Isa was actually not guilty, ie UMNO was wrong.
Huh? It does not make any sense. Well, it is OK, actually, UMNO does not make sense.
One would have thought they would have selected Isa’s son. If Isa’s son, UMNO may win.
OK, it is now Isa.
We bet that the chances are that PR will win, on grounds that the electorate will not vote for someone who is tainted.
Ie, UMNO will lose.
OK, say Isa wins. As Guan Eng had said, UMNO may win the battle this round, they will effectively lose the war through this bi-election.
Why?
Well, Isa’s win will just send a message to all Malaysians that it is OK to accept corrupted politicians.
So how?
Well, come GE13, UMNO will sure lose one…
As said, either way, UMNO will just lose!
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Don’t they ever learn?
What circus do we now behold? A circus better than Cirque du Soleil? Presto! Our very own Pakatan du Soleil!!! An spinoff of Barisan du Soleil!!!!!!!!
Who do they think we are? A bunch of idiots?
Yeah, just before 308, all sorts of promises were made about The People’s Voice and The People’s Declaration.
So, what has become of the adoption?
Instead of adoption, you have these people bickering, and they just cannot agree.
We agree. We agree that the Pakatan clowns be given a slap. Haris has suggested that we do not vote either Pakatan or Barisan.
This should be considered.
This way, the Pakatan clowns will hopefully wake up.
We do not want to read about what each PKR, DAP and PAS has to say.
We want to hear Pakatan as ONE voice!
Do you read us loud and clear???
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Haris Ibrahim: We need to teach politicians a lesson. Pakatan Rakyat politicians, that is
10 August 2009
On 4th February, 2008, in “The People’s Voice & The People’s Declaration” post, this is what I wrote :
“Malaysia belongs to her people.
You and I and every person for whom this country is home.
Every indicator is that we will be going to the polls very soon.
Soon we will be hearing all kinds of promises from politicians out to get our vote.
Tell them that this time round things are going to be different.
Tell them that we the People, have found our Voice.
Tell them that they must heed our Voice.
Tell them that we, the People, have charted the direction we wish to take our country.
Tell them that if they wish to have our mandate, they must abide by the People’s Declaration”.
On 23rd February, 2008, the three Pakatan Rakyat parties, together with three other non-BN parties formally indorsed our People’s Declaration. You can read about that HERE.
Then 8th March, 2008 happened and BN politicians were at the receiving end of a lesson many, politicians and rakyat alike, thought was not possible.
Loss of a long-held 2/3 majority in Parliament.
And the loss of another four state governments.
It didn’t stop there.
Permatang Pauh, Kuala Terengganu, Bukit Gantang, Bukit Selambau and Penanti.
Again and again, BN felt the wrath of the voters.
Has BN learnt anything?
Doesn’t look like it.
Has Pakatan Rakyat learnt anything from this?
Doesn’t look like it too.
In his ‘Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia’ post, this is what RPK said :
“There appears to be another thing that PAS has forgotten. In fact, all the seven parties appear to have forgotten this as well. And this is The People’s Declaration (Deklarasi Rakyat) which the seven parties endorsed in the run-up to the 8 March 2008 general election. Just before the general election they all enthusiastically endorsed The People’s Declaration. Immediately after the general election they conveniently forgot the Declaration that they signed”.
Now, aren’t Pakatan behaving like Pak Lah before and after the 2004 GE?
A lot of promises before the election, and all forgotten after?
That’s a fraud on the voters!
It’s beginning to seem as if BN is not the only one who ‘cakap tak serupa bikin’!
Did Hassan Ali tell the voters when he was campaigning for votes in the run up to the 12th GE that if he was voted into office, he would turn all Muslim-majority ( whatever this is and howsoever this is worked out ) into booze-free areas?
And if he did not, is not his latest move to destabilise the PR state government nothing less than a fraud on every non-Muslim voter in his constituency?
Is not his latest ‘Islam-as I say-tion’ stance at odds with the terms of the People’s Declaration, and therefore leaving PAS in breach of its undertaking with the rakyat by its indorsement of the People’s Declaration?
Should not the national leadership of PAS discipline Hassan for placing the party in a most untenable position with the rakyat?
Speaking of discipline, what’s become of the show cause notice issued last year by PKR to its taliban, Zul Nordin for his most disgraceful complicity in the disruption of the dialogue at the Bar Council auditorium last year?
Wasn’t Zul’s behaviour then in blatant disregard of the right of expression that his party, by indorsing the People’s Declaration, vouched to protect and to nurture?
Does PKR think we have forgotten?
On 6th August, Malaysianinsider reported YB Lim Kit Siang as warning that unless public confidence in Pakatan is strengthened, this fledgling coalition could end up a ‘one-term wonder’.
Too right, YB!
The next day, Leslie Lau of Malaysianinsider summed it up succintly when he said that “Pakatan Rakyat cannot expect a free pass from the public”.
RPK, in his ‘Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia’ post did not mince his words :
“We need to teach politicians a lesson…It is time we took back the country from the politicians. Politicians, both sides of the political divide, are just not delivering. They are screwing us good and proper. Politicians just can’t be trusted. If Barisan Nasional kicks Pakatan Rakyat out come next general election it is not because Barisan is strong, it is because Pakatan is weak. We took 30 years since 1978 to get where we got in March 2008. The last ten years since 1998 was on a Reformasi platform. In just over a year the politicians are undoing 30 years of hard work. Victory did not come easy on 8 March 2008. I wasted more than half my life to see what we saw in March 2008. And now they expect us to just sit back and watch them undo everything through their arrogance, ego, short sightedness, lust for power, selfishness, and self-centred and narrow-minded political agenda…I don’t expect overnight results. I am prepared to see the opposition build back, brick by brick, what Barisan Nasional destroyed over 50 years. But Pakatan Rakyat is not rebuilding. It is destroying even more. It is creating as much damage as what Barisan Nasional did in 50 years…Pakatan Rakyat must remember that it was not they who won the 8 March 2008 general election. It was the rakyat who did. And now the rakyat is no longer part of the equation in whatever they do. Pakatan Rakyat must be given a tight slap on the face”.
We need to teach the politicians a lesson, Pete says.
The Pakatan Rakyat politicians, is what I think Pete meant.
I think it’s time.
Source: http://harismibrahim.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/we-need-to-teach-politicians-a-lesson-pakatan-rakyat-politicians-that-is/
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The post-308 Ong Tee Keat “Should MCA leave BN” Poll may have been academic until just recently, but it is now not academic; it is absolutely relevant.
Why? You now have stupid people running around trying to do some stupid things (well, yeah, what’s new?).
A most current issue is people like Nasharuddin trying to move towards a Unity Government (we fully agree with Nik Aziz, Nasharudding should quit PAS and Bachok, and then join UMNO).
Najib is trying to split PAS by saying that he feels that PAS is sincere (same syndrome of suggesting that the Rakyat is really dumb).
Good thing you now have the MCA having guts to object to the intended unity talks (well, after so many years, they are starting to discover guts).
So, let us give them a piece of our mind, tell them where we stand!
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2009 is Visit Perak Year!
There are many tourist attractions in Perak, most notably the Perak State Assembly Building, which is very rich in historical significance, all past, present and future.
It is certainly worth a visit, especially if you happen to be visiting Ipoh, or passing by Ipoh.
You can go to http://maps.google.com, type in “Jalan Panglima Bukit Gantang Wahab, 30000 Perak, Malaysia”, then click “Search Maps”, and presto! you will be brought to the exact location of this very beautiful building.
If you are feeling a bit lazy to do just that, you can use the map below:
Alternatively, you can always take down the address of the Perak State Assembly Building below, ask your taxi driver to bring you to this most memorable place:
Pejabat Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri
Bangunan Perak Darul Ridzuan
Jalan Panglima Bukit Gantang Wahab
30000 Ipoh
Perak Darul Ridzuan
Tel : 05-2531957 samb. 5215/5216/5223 Fax : 05-2410451
And if you taxi driver gets lost, feel free to ask the Ipohians, especially the police, who will be more than happy to tell you where the Perak State Assembly Building is.
Don’t miss the chance whilst in Ipoh to visit the Building!
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P/S: Don’t forget to come back again and again, as this historical site promises lots of exciting changes.
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“The contention is that the secretary of the Assembly was the one who had issued the notice for the new session in the Assembly and not the MB. The assembly secretary is but a clerk of paliament and has to take orders from the Speaker and cannot act on his own.”
Goodness, isn’t it clear that the Assembly purported to be convened by other than the person who can convene it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL???
The Secretary of the Assembly should be sacked for acting in his own accord, and/or in collaboration with the questionable MB.
And the questionable MB does not even understand nor respect the Constitution!
The Speaker should, when everyone sits down, proclaim that the Assembly as assembled is not properly convened, and then declare that the intended Assembly session cannot be convened. Period!
IT IS SIMPLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!
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Sivakumar says the intended 507 Perak Assembly is in contempt of the Assembly.
Not only that, IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!
Can we have a volunteer please to send notices to all MPs to convene a Parliament Session to discuss this Perak Constitutional Crisis?
Get the drift?
If anyone can send any notice to convene any Parliamentary or Assembly Session, then all hell will break lose.
Don’t those guys know anything about procedures?
Goodness, we are becoming a cowboy nation, anything goes.
We repeat, the convening of the Perak Assembly on 7 May 2009 is not only in contempt of the Perak Speaker and Perak Assembly, it is also UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!
Source:http://916movement.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/916m-perak-507-assembly-unconstitutional/
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MySinchew: Mayday in Perak
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The contention is that the secretary of the Assembly was the one who had issued the notice for the new session in the Assembly and not the MB. The assembly secretary is but a clerk of paliament and has to take orders from the Speaker and cannot act on his own.
By BOB TEOH, My Sinchew
THE PERAK State Assembly is scheduled to sit on Thursday 7 May. We may yet see the ongoing constitutional crisis there becoming full blown. As it is, the constitutional legitimacy of the Mentri Besar and his executive council or state cabinet is being challenged in the courts – from the High Courts both in Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur to the Court of Appeal and the apex Federal Court in Putrajaya.
Until the courts decide definitively one way or another, there are now two mentris besar; one who was recently appointed by the Perak Sultan and the other was asked to resign by the Sultan to make way for the former. The problem is that he and his exco did not resign. So who is the pretender to the throne?
To make things worse, the Speaker of the Perak State Assembly, who is from the Pakatan Rakyat coalition decided to call the Assembly into session while the Barisan nominated Mentri Besar and six of his exco members were suspended from the Assembly. The State Secretary, who is a Federal appointee, then ordered the doors to the Assembly chambers locked. But the Speaker convened the sitting nonetheless but under a rain tree nearby which immediately moved a motion that the Mentri Besar from his camp is the legitimate office holder.
The other side quickly challenged the legitimacy of the Speaker’s move as the Sultan’s permission was neither sought nor given. But the Speaker maintained that permission from the Istana was not needed as the Assembly was not in adjournment but only in recess. The new Mentri Besar also challenged his suspension including that of his six exco members from the Assembly as unconstitutional and the High Court agreed that the Speaker was indeed wrong to suspend them.
The problem is that it was the rights and privileges committee of the Assembly and not the Speaker who ordered the suspension. This is surely a case of barking up the wrong tree.
Now to resolve the constitutional circus once and for all, the Barisan Mentri Besar has decided to call the Assembly into session to sack the Speaker and appoint one from his own camp. He has indicated that the Sultan has given his consent for the sitting.
But the question is who calls the Assembly into session? The Speaker, of course, and not the MB otherwise this will be a gross violation of the principle of seperation of powers between the legislative headed by the Speaker and the executive headed by the MB.
The contention is that the secretary of the Assembly was the one who had issued the notice for the new session in the Assembly and not the MB. The assembly secretary is but a clerk of paliament and has to take orders from the Speaker and cannot act on his own.
A moot point is that the Barisan MB may try to get a court order to force to call the Assembly into session. But this again will be a fundamental transgression of the separation of powers principle. One cannot dismiss this even as a remote possibility, as already in one or two instances in the current slew of litigation between the two parties, the judiciary was perceived to have overstepped its powers and being bias as well.
So what can we expect on 7 May? The MB has already submitted his proposal to sack the Speaker and has nominated his choice for relacement. The opposition bench has indicated it will attend thus quashing earlier speculation that it may boycott the sitting.
Short of being kidnapped , the Speaker is expected to turn up. Failing which, his deputy who was from his camp but has sinced switched sides will take over and do the bidding of the new MB. End of crisis.
But if the Speaker actually turns up on Thursday, he can do one of three things. The first thing he can do, but which is unlikely, is that he calls the Assembly into session. The Barisan MB immediately jumps up and propose to sack the Speaker. Since his has the numbers, the Speaker will be sacked. End of crisis.
The other choice is for the Speaker to announce that the notice for the sitting is procedurally wrong and flawed and everybody can go home. Another alternative was for him to disallow the MB’s emergency motion to sack him following the example of the Federal Parliament where emergency motions from the opposition are routinely rejected simply on the basis there was no urgency to discuss it.
That as it may, if the ruling bench somehow managed to get the Assembly into session and sack the Speaker, then the constitutional crisis would have becomne full blown with Perak having the dubious distinction of the being the only state government in the whole world with two MBs and two Speakers. This surely would be a stereophonic Mayday callsign.
The Mayday callsign originated in 1923 for airplanes and ships in distress from the French phrase Venez m’aider which means come help me.
Will the Prime Minister come to their help? Maybe. But it was the PM (who was then the deputy PM) who precipitated the constitutional crisis by getting his man to be the new MB. Come 7 May and may hear callsign for: Venez m’aider.. But since virtually nobody understands French, the callsign is likely to go unheeded. What Mayday?
Source:http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/21366/84/
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So, yes, if the Perak Assembly building will be sealed off and/or Assemblymen prevented from getting into the building, and given that the Speaker can decide as to where the Assembly can convene, then have it in a coffee shop as Nizar has suggested, or failing that, convene a Virtual Assembly Emergency Sitting, ie use MSN Messenger or Yahoo! Messenger.
There are many ways to skin a cat.
Over to you guys!
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The Malaysian Insider: MP: Speaker can hold sitting anywhere
By Debra Chong
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 2 – The MP for Ipoh-Barat, M. Kula Segaran, sys that the Perak Assembly Speaker has the right to decide where to hold the emergency meeting tomorrow.
“The place of assembly is up to the speaker to interpret,” Kula Segaran said, quoting from the Perak Assembly Standing Orders Nos. 10, 11, 89 and 90, which describe the sessions of assembly.
“The meetings of the assembly during each session shall be held on such days and place as Mr Speaker shall determine,” Kula Segaran added.
Highlighting the principle behind the separation of powers, Kula Segaran said the courts cannot interfere in the matters of parliament and the state legislative assembly because the two lawmaking bodies act as “courts” themselves.
“That’s why the courts cannot rule over the events in another court at the same time,” he added.
But, Kula Segaran observed, the various events have mired the state in legal technicalities which are taking away the attention from the main issue.
“The bottomline is why they fear to have the meeting?” he questioned.
Kula Segaran also pointed out that the Perak chief police officer (CPO) is not “very knowledgeable” on the laws regarding assemblymen and members of Parliament.
“Section 124 of the Penal Code states that any person who impedes an assemblyman or an MP from carrying out his official duties can be jailed,” the MP said.
He explained that it is very likely that Speaker Sivakumar will still head to the state assembly building tomorrow as planned and try to talk to CPO Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah if he is blocked from entering for the emergency meeting.
Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/19505-mp-speaker-can-hold-sitting-anywhere
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Another way to look at this sealing off of the Perak Assembly building: it is contemp of the Assembly.
So, Mr Speaker, you can take action against those who initiated this move for showing contempt towards the Perak Assembly.
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P/S: Similarly, you can also take contempt action against the Assembly clerk who disregarded your instructions to send out the Emergency Sitting notice.
P/S: Perhaps too against any authorities which are seeking to stop the Emergency Sitting today.
Malaysia-Today: Directive to shut down secretariat hastily removed
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M(The Star) – IPOH: The State Secretary’s office issued circulars last evening directing staff members to cancel all appointments in the premises today because the entrances to the building would be shut.
However, the circulars were retrieved about an hour after they were pasted on the doors of several offices.
Later when asked if the directives had been withdrawn, State Secretary Datuk Dr Abdul Rahman Hashim said: “My officer informed me that they had been collected back. I cannot comment further on that.”
That development has left a question mark as to whether the “emergency sitting” of the Perak State Assembly, supposed to start here today, would be held.
The “emergency sitting” was called by Pakatan Rakyat Speaker V. Sivakumar. Barisan Nasional Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir has called it “invalid and unlawful”.
Dr Abdul Rahman said he was unaware what would happen today during the “emergency sitting” and would not confirm or deny if the House would be locked.
“In fact, I too did not receive any invitation to attend this emergency sitting.”
The circulars were pasted on the office doors at about 4pm when a reporter managed to get copies of it and passed them on to about 20 other journalists waiting outside Dr Zambry’s office for his press conference.
When one reporter tried to make a photocopy of the circular, some officials of the mentri besar’s office said it was not for publication.
Later, reporters were informed the circulars had been “collected back”.
At the press conference, Dr Zambry warned that anyone who tried to attend the sitting would be deemed as “threatening the safety of the state.”
“As far as I and my exco are concerned, there was no consent given by the Sultan over the convening of this so-called emergency sitting.
“I would like to stress here that without such consent, whatever ‘sitting’ held would be considered invalid and unlawful.”
The press conference, held late in the evening, was attended by most of the Barisan exco members, several Barisan representatives and Barisan-friendly Independents Mohd Osman Mohd Jailu and Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi.
Dr Zambry accused Sivakumar of not acting within his jurisdictional powers by calling for the sitting without royal consent.
“He has used his powers unfairly to achieve his own political agenda and he had ridiculed the proceedings of the House.”
He said he would challenge in court Sivakumar’s decision to call for the emergency sitting of the state assembly “in due course.”
Later, former Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Tajol Rosli Ghazali said that should Pakatan go ahead with today’s sitting, it would be unfair towards Barisan.
“It will be 21 (Barisan assemblymen) against 28 (Pakatan assemblymen), so where is the fairness?
“You ask us to go for a fight and then you tie our hands behind our backs. We might as well just stay at home,” he said.
Source: http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/18750/84/
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Looking at the way these monkeys are panicking makes one realise that they are certainly a class above Mr Bean, as it just shows that they have run out of ideas and are, as said before, poo-ing in the pants.
Their antics are endless:
Rest assured that they will come up with all sorts of tactics, just to make sure that the Emergency Sitting does not take place tomorrow (and if you have the upper hand, you would not and need not resort to so many desperate measures).
We have our confidence in the Pakatan Folks, in that they will certainly be able to come up with something to circumvent the monkeys.
In any case, it is very obvious that the Pakatan Folks have the upper hand. Indeed, Umno focused on seizing the Menteri Besar’s place, but did not cover the Speaker, and now they are stuck.
It was indeed very difficult for Zambry & Co to have avoided the Speaker, when the latter summoned them to a discipinary hearing, for if they had ignored the Speaker, this meant that they do not recognise the Perak Assembly. So, yes, they went, and they were caught with their pants down, when Sivakumar suspended them for 12 and 18 months.
Before the suspension, BN had 28 assemblymen, plus 3 BN-Friendly assemblymen, against Pakatan’s 28. After the suspension, BN has 21, against Pakatan’s 27 (less the Speaker), and minus the 3 BN-Friendly assembly which the Speaker does not recognise.
Let us take a look at the procedural angles:
Hence, until such time court injunction or other orders are obtained, the Speaker can go on, acting in the interest of the State, on grounds that the current impasse would lead the State Government to nowhere, and also to prevent abuse by either the Pakatan Menteri Besar or BN Menteri Besar. Hence, the Speaker and the State Assembly must take leadership and guide the state until a solution is found.
Politically, the Pakatan controlled State Assembly can freeze the State Government until BN agrees to a snap election, and/or such a stalemate will result in DYMM Sultan Azlan Shah to mediate for a solution.
In conclusion, we wish to note the following points:
So, Pakatan Folks, take your time, we will get there!!!
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The Nut Graph: Perak’s political drama heightens
2 Mar 09 : 8.00AM
By Deborah Loh
THE political drama in Perak, which has escalated from one height to another, is set to spike tomorrow with an emergency state assembly sitting to vote on two motions related to the state’s constitutional crisis.
However, even if the emergency sitting is successful, it would not immediately solve the impasse. It would, in fact, be the latest in a series of planned steps by the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) to turn the matter back to Perak’s ruler, Sultan Azlan Shah, in the hopes of forcing a snap poll.
The two motions expected at the emergency sitting are to reaffirm support for the PR’s Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin as Perak menteri besar, and to seek dissolution of the state assembly.
Speaker V Sivakumar, the DAP assemblyperson for Tronoh, invoked Standing Orders to call for the emergency sitting. As the all-powerful speaker of the state assembly, he is the PR’s trump card in the state’s political impasse despite the Barisan Nasional (BN) having taken over the state government.
Sivakumar has already flexed his muscles by suspending the BN’s Menteri Besar Datuk Zambry Abdul Kadir and his six executive councillors. They will not be allowed to enter the assembly for the emergency sitting. Neither will the three independents who left the PR to support the BN be allowed into the state assembly, as Sivakumar deems their resignations from their state seats effective.
With 10 representatives on the BN’s side out, the numbers in the 59-seat state assembly would be in the PR’s favour at 27 to 21. The PR’s 28th seat is Sivakumar’s, who, as speaker, cannot vote.
Zambry with his executive councillors and special advisers
Back to the palace
Barring any attempts of forced entry by Zambry and the BN excos into the state assembly house, and any potential ruckus or situation that may thwart the emergency sitting, Nizar will quite easily be given the vote of confidence as MB.
Following that, two scenarios could take place.
One, Nizar could quickly seek an audience with Sultan Azlan to request the dissolution of the assembly.
Two, the impasse would continue because Zambry and the BN would certainly not take affirmation of Nizar as the legitimate MB sitting down.
Nizar may opt not to hurry to the palace seeking the assembly’s dissolution, but be content to let the deadlock and the uncertainty drag on until the assembly’s next sitting, which must be called by May.
The limbo could be intentional to force Sultan Azlan to call both Zambry and Nizar for an audience to decide a way out of the situation.
“Under the present circumstances, the ruler could call both parties to the dispute, he could consult both menteris besar and ask them if they feel fresh elections would be the best way out,” says Mohamed Asri Othman, the Perak Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) legal adviser.
“The sultan cannot decide alone; he must take into account relevant factors through listening to both sides,” Asri adds.
Appealing to the sultan’s discretion
It appears that the latest situation is being engineered by the PR, which has the upper hand in the house through the speaker. The intention would be to appeal to the sultan’s personal discretionary powers that he has under Article 18, Clause 2 of the Perak Constitution.
Such discretion is applicable to two functions, namely, the appointment of a menteri besar, and the withholding of consent to a request for the dissolution of the state legislative assembly.
According to the clause, the sultan’s personal discretion is allowed when deciding whether to dissolve the assembly upon request by the menteri besar.
This is consistent with Article 16(6) of the state constitution, whereby the MB can request the ruler to dissolve the assembly. This is what Nizar tried to do earlier, but failed.
There is another provision that touches on dissolution as well: Article 36(2) which simply states, “His royal highness may prorogue or dissolve the legislative assembly”.
Although Article 36(2) does not specify any conditions (such as a request by the MB) for the dissolution, it is still deemed by some legal experts to be discretionary power subject to Clause 2.
“‘Dissolve’ as stated in 36(2) is discretionary according to the wording of Clause 2, where consenting to dissolution is based on request,” says Universiti Teknologi Mara’s constitutional law expert Professor Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi.
“As a general rule, the sultan acts on advice except for areas where discretionary power is mentioned, such as under Clause 2, where a request for dissolution must be made,” he explains.
Says Mohamed Asri: “As a constitutional monarch, he has to act on the advice of the menteri besar. If the ruler decides unilaterally, then he would be an absolute monarch.”
Based on their explanations, this means the ruler can still only decide whether or not to dissolve the assembly, upon on the request for dissolution from the menteri besar. It does not mean he can decide on his own, independent of any request, to dissolve the assembly.
Nizar In this context, if Nizar succeeds in being affirmed as MB in the emergency sitting tomorrow, he would have legitimate grounds to seek an audience with the sultan.
Professor Dr Abdul Aziz Bari of the International Islamic University says the sultan’s role is as a facilitator of democracy.
“The sultan, as protector of the constitution, [has] to facilitate democracy and not otherwise. He needs a government that has a clear mandate, so in dissolving the assembly, he would be assisting democracy to establish that clear mandate,” says the law lecturer.
Obstacle course
There are kinks in PR’s plan, though, and that is the suit Nizar has filed against Zambry to declare himself as the legitimate MB.
It’s not inconceivable to think that the sultan might prefer to wait for the court’s decision before deciding to grant either side, or both, an audience to discuss the assembly’s dissolution, or the next course of action.
The BN, too, is planning a counterstrike by seeking the opinion of a Queen’s Counsel in London on the validity of Zambry’s and the excos’ suspensions, and Nizar’s suit against Zambry.
As inevitable as snap polls look, the road to elections is still littered with many mines that the PR must dodge.
Source: http://thenutgraph.com/peraks-political-drama-heightens
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