Why must Najib be stopped from becoming PM

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Published: Friday, 13 March 2009 09:03

Posted by Kim Quek

13 March 2009

Minister Nazri Aziz’s barefaced denial of any wrongdoing by the Attorney -General and Inspector-General of Police in Anwar Ibrahim’s "black eye" case in the face of incontrovertible evidence is an affront to common decency and an insult to the people’s intelligence. 

Answering a question in Parliament on Mar 11, Nazri said the then Anti-Corruption Agency (now the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission -- MACC) had completed the investigations and concluded as early as September last year that both AG Gani Patail and IGP Musa Hassan were innocent of Anwar’s written complaints of fabrication of evidence.  If that is the case, why didn’t the AG’s chamber use this conclusion to counter Sessions Court Judge Komatty’s decision to reject AG’s request to transfer Anwar’s sodomy trial to the High Court on ground of AG’s entanglement in the black eye case?  Shouldn’t the prosecutors have used the AG’s “confirmed??? innocence as the perfect argument in the first instance, instead of fighting doggedly from one court hearing to another just to ensure that Anwar’s trial could be taken away from Komatty and transferred to another judge in the high court?

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Najib's Falacious "Majority" in Perak

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Published: Thursday, 05 February 2009 12:27

Posted by Kim Quek

Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak announced in a press conference on Feb 4 that though the Perak State Assembly is tied between Pakatan Rakyat and Barisan Nasional at 28 vs 28, he had the support of three "friendly independents" for the Barisan Nasional to form a majority state government.

Najib’s claim of the majority of three is fallacious because his so called "friendly independents" -- former PKR assemblymen Jamaluddin Radzi and Osman Jailu -- had already resigned on Feb 1.  When Speaker V. Sivakumar received their letters of resignation on Feb 1, he announced on the same day that he had accepted the resignations and declared: “They have stepped down as state assemblypersons with immediate effect???. Hence, these two men legally ceased to be assemblymen upon the Speaker’s announcement.

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Was the removal of Nizar constitutional?

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Published: Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:47

Posted by Kim Quek

At the core of the Perak crisis is the issue of whether the forced removal of Mentri Besar Nizar Jamaluddin from his post was constitutional.  If it was not, then Nizar is still the Mentri Besar.

The answer to this question would depend on a) whether Nizar had lost the support of the majority in the state assembly, and if he had, b) whether the Sultan had the power to dismiss him.

Let us firstly look at the issue of whether Nizar had lost his majority.

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Pakatan Riding Over Storms in Perak

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Published: Thursday, 05 February 2009 00:51

Posted by Kim Quek

February 4, 2009

Just as Malaysians were held spellbound by another round of the country's unique brand of "missing persons" politics, we are hit by another bombshell – the record-smashing  move by the Election Commission (EC) to overrule a decision by the Speaker of a legislature to accept the resignations of members of the legislature.

When newly installed election EC chairman Abdul Aziz Yusof announced on Feb 3 that two assemblymen of the Perak state assembly should continue to hold their positions as assemblymen, despite having received a notification from the Speaker that these two have resigned, the EC was in fact telling the Speaker: your acceptance of those two resignations is no damn good, we don't recognize it, so the two will remain assemblymen, and there wouldn't be any by-election.

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