Nizar seeks audience with Sultan

IPOH: Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin is seeking an audience with the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah, to present the Ruler with the three motions passed during Tuesday’s emergency sitting.

Former Perak executive council member Nga Kor Ming confirmed Friday that the palace had been notified of Nizar’s hope to meet with the Sultan.

He said the documentation for the three motions had been completed and notice submitted to the palace shortly after Tuesday’s sitting.

The motions were: An affirmation of the assembly’s confidence in Nizar as the rightful mentri besar; an appeal for Royal consent to dissolve the state assembly; and the adoption of the decision to suspend current Mentri Besar Datuk Dr Zambry Abd Kadir and his six exco members.

“We appeal from the bottom of our hearts, for the sake of the people of Perak, that his Royal Highness grants us audience as soon as possible.

“It is the wish of the people that the state assembly be dissolved so that power is returned to them. With greatest respect to the Ruler, we hope we are granted an audience,” he told reporters here Friday.

Nga said that in all Commonwealth countries, any motion passed in the state legislative assembly or Parliament had to be adopted and complied with.

He also quashed questions on the legality of the motions passed, in view of the court order restraining Speaker V. Sivakumar from holding any unlawful meetings purporting to be state assembly meetings.

“It was only an ex-parte order, made on an ex-parte application. The order merely restrains Sivakumar from convening ‘unlawful’ meetings, meaning that ‘lawful’ meetings are not affected.

“We do not need a court order to tell us that unlawful meetings are not allowed,” he said.

Nga said the order, granted by the Ipoh High Court on Tuesday and served to Sivakumar on Wednesday, also did not declare illegal the proceedings passed during the emergency sitting.

“The motions passed therefore remain unaffected and should be enforced, for there was no court order declaring otherwise.

“We had the quorum, we adjourned to a lawful place under the ‘yellow flame tree’ and we had a legal Speaker,” he said.

Nga said that to honour the resolutions, Dr Zambry should “call it a day” and resign from his post for he no longer commanded the majority support of the House. (The Star)

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PR gives two days ultimatum to Zambryto dissolve Perak SA

KUALA LUMPUR : Taiping MP Nga Kor Ming said today Perak state assembly Speaker V. Sivakumar will call for special assembly meeting if Barisan Nasional (BN) Mentri Besar Datuk Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir refuses to call for the dissolution of the state assembly within two days.

Datuk Dr Zambry AbdulKadir At a press conference in the parliament lobby today, Nga said Sivakumar had written to Perak Sultan, Sultan Azlan Shah last week requesting His Royal Highness' consent to convent a special assembly meeting.

"According to an opinion poll of Perakians, more than 80% of the voters wish for the assembly to be dissolved to pave way for a fresh elections.

"I urge Zambry to respect democratic system and call for the dissolution of the assembly as this is the only way to end the constitutional crisis in the state," he said.

Nga, who was an executive councillor of the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) government before the state government fell to the BN, said if Zambry has fails to do so, the PR would move a motion to stop the BN government which is deemed illegal, from using the state money.

"We feel sad for such development because if the state fund cannot be used, the administration of the state government will be affected, so the only (to prevent this) is to call for a fresh election," he added.

Nga also criticised the announcement by Zambry that his legal team was seeking advice from a Queen’s Counsel, on the state crisis.

He descrined Zambry's act to seek opinion from former colonial master – the United Kingdom which ruled the state from 1874 to 1957, as being akin to "a baby crying for his mother although the baby is now almost 52 years old".

Sivakumar"It also shows that Perak Umno does not truly understand that Malaysian constitutional law should be interpreted by Malaysians.

"It does not understand that Malaysia is an independent country and that the best solution is here within the country .... and it is in the ballot box, said Nga who quoted then Raja Azlan Shah (Sultan Azlan Shah now) as saying: ‘Those who find fault with the wisdom of the Act… normally must address themselves to the legislature… they have their remedy at the ballot box."

Nga said the PR government under MB Datuk Seri Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin is confident that there are enough Commonwealth and local case laws which will vindicate the action of the PR to protect and defend the rights of Perakians under the doctrine of constitutional supremacy.
"It is shameful to go back to Ye olde England for help when the answer is at our doorstep," he said.

On Sunday, Mohd Nizar had announced that the PR is planning to move a motion of no confidence against the BN government and a motion to dissolve the assembly in the coming assembly meeting. (TheSun)

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Majority of Perakians reject BN - Survey - Malaysiakini

IPOH— If the Barisan Nasional and the Perak royal household had any lingering doubts about negative public sentiment towards the change of the state government, here is a message: doubt no more.

A survey of registered voters in Perak on Feb 8 showed that:

• 74 per cent of the respondents feel that the state assembly should have been dissolved after the defection of the three Pakatan Rakyat lawmakers

• 76 per cent of the respondents felt that the "people, through elections, should decide on who forms the government"

• 62 per cent of the respondents felt that the "role of the palace in this decision" means it does not recognise the will of the people

• 66 per cent of the respondents do not accept state governments formed through the defection of state assemblymen

• 59 per cent of the respondents feel that the political crisis in Perak would decrease support for Barisan Nasional.

Taken together, the poll by the Merdeka Centre suggests that Datuk Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir and the BN may occupy the seat of government but a significant number of Perakians may not accept their legitimacy to hold power.

The political crisis unfolded in Perak when three Pakatan Rakyat legislators became independents and said that they would back the BN.

This wiped away the three-seat majority which enabled Pakatan Rakyat to rule the state since March last year.

After interviewing the three and the 28 BN representatives, Sultan Azlan Shah decided that BN had the majority in the state assembly. This was a controversial decision given that Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin and Pakatan Rakyat felt that the correct decision should have been for the Ruler to allow for the state assembly to be dissolved for fresh elections.

There is a roiling debate even among lawyers on the Sultan's decision, with the majority saying that he should have either agreed to the dissolution of the House or held off making any decision until a vote of no confidence against Nizar was taken in the assembly.

The survey findings indicate that many Perak voters also feel that the Ruler may have erred.

Some 507 registered voters were interviewed by telephone and the sampling was done randomly. The margin of error was about 4.5 per cent. (TMI)


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Perak MCA - Detain KJ under ISA !

KUALA LUMPUR: A Perak MCA Youth delegate who had called for Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin to be detained under the Internal Security Act for making racist statements is sticking to his guns.

Barisan Nasional leaders were among those who attended the MCA general assembly.

Ting Tai Fook said he was only voicing what people had been saying about Khairy.

"Am I afraid he will take action against me, seeing how well-connected he is?

"I think he doesn't have a case against me, since what I said is nothing new," he said.

Ting also believed MCA Youth would back him up.
At the MCA Youth assembly on Friday, Ting called Khairy a "political loser" who should be booked under the ISA.

He also wanted former Umno Bukit Bendera division chief Datuk Ahmad Ismail to be held under the same act for describing Malaysian Chinese as pendatang (squatters).

He expressed disappointment with the detentions of Sin Chew Daily reporter Tan Hoon Cheng and Seputeh MP Teresa Kok, whom he claimed had done nothing offensive.

"However, people like Khairy and Ahmad can talk all they want and no action was taken against them.

"If we want to use the ISA, let's use it against these people first. Lock them up for two years, let them think through everything they say so they can realise how nonsensical and narrow-minded they are."



Ting said he was opposed to the ISA, which "should be thoroughly reviewed and measures put into place to avoid any abuse".

He said it was incomprehensible for Khairy to question the ratio of government scholarships for Bumiputeras and non-Bumiputeras.

"Already our gifted students are being turned away from many public universities. So, how could he question the scholarship quota?"

Ting said he believed Khairy would lose the race for the Umno Youth chief post at the party's elections in March.

"I believe this irresponsible leader will su dao tuo ku (be badly defeated) at the Umno elections.

"That will be the ultimate embarrassment for him, to see that he is rejected even by his own people.

"After that, may we never hear from such a political loser again." (NST)

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