And there is another reason why Kadir Sulaiman should find some support within the Barisan ranks. The Perak power grab was legitimised after the Court of Appeal relied on an obscure statement by Kadir from a 1995 case in Sabah. In reaching the decision, the Court of Appeal relied on a statement made by Kadir in the Amir Kahar case in 1995.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Kadir the acceptable choice?

(The Malaysian Insider, 21 June 2013) – Pakatan Rakyat wants former judge Datuk Kadir Sulaiman as the new Speaker of Parliament when the House convenes on Monday and Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Barisan Nasional should find him an acceptable choice.

After all, he is an establishment figure. He served the Terengganu royal household well. Also, it is not as if appointing someone with Kadir’s background is going to break new ground.

There is already a precedent of a former judge serving as the Speaker of the House. Tun Zahir Ismail was a High Court judge before he became the longest serving Speaker in Malaysian history.

And there is another reason why Kadir should find some support within the Barisan ranks. The Perak power grab was legitimised after the Court of Appeal relied on an obscure statement by Kadir from a 1995 case in Sabah.

The crux of the issue in the power grab in Perak was whether when the then Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin was granted an audience by the Sultan of Perak, he had lost the confidence of the majority of the assembly, and the Malay Ruler was correct in asking him to step down.

The Court of Appeal decided that the Sultan was spot on in asking Nizar to step down, as he had lost the confidence of the majority. The court added that there was no express provision for a vote of confidence to be taken in the state assembly, which was the contention of Pakatan Rakyat.

In reaching the decision, the Court of Appeal relied on a statement made by Kadir Sulaiman in the Amir Kahar case in 1995.

“The evidence that a chief minister ceases to command the confidence of the majority members of the Assembly…is not only available from the votes taken in the Assembly. There is nothing in the Constitution which can be construed as requiring that the test of confidence must be by a vote taken in the Assembly itself. The fact can be evidenced by other extraneous sources.”

This paragraph was relied on by the Court of Appeal to support their decision that there was no necessity for Nizar to face a no-confidence vote in the House and that it was correct for the Perak Sultan to rely on extraneous sources.

This decision was heavily criticised by senior lawyers because Kadir’s statement was obiter dicta. It was not the meat of his decision and was merely a throwaway observation.

Still, the Appeal court relied on that statement and the Barisan was relieved that a judge by the name of Kadir Sulaiman was like-minded.

********************************************

Pakatan Rakyat says that the Malaysian courts are not impartial and work for the government while Malaysian judges are slime-balls and scumbags and corrupted to the core. Hence we cannot trust the Malaysian judicial system or Malaysian judges.

However, Pakatan Rakyat is pushing for a retired judge to be appointed the new Parliament Speaker. This appears to be a contradiction to the statement that we cannot trust Malaysian judges farther than we can throw them.

We also see Pakatan Rakyat working closely with many retired police and military officers when at one time they alleged that the Malaysian police and military are tools of the government.

Furthermore, we see Pakatan Rakyat singing the praises of some members of the royal family who were once vilified as leeches but now that they support the opposition they are revered. Some were even given seats to contest in the recent general election.

This is certainly a very interesting turn of events. I bet if some of those ‘corrupt and evil people’ from Barisan Nasional decide to cross over to Pakatan Rakyat they would instantly be forgiven for their crimes and would be welcomed to the opposition ranks with open arms and with much pomp and revelry.

Such is Malaysian politics. You can be transformed from Satan to Christ by just walking a few paces from the government aisle to the opposition aisle. You need not even return all the money you stole when you were in power.

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad should take note of this. If he suspects that Barisan Nasional is going to fall and that Pakatan Rakyat is about to take over all he needs to do is to endorse Anwar Ibrahim for Prime Minister and Lim Kit Siang for Deputy Prime Minister and he will be hailed as the greatest Prime Minister Malaysia ever had.

Such is Malaysian politics.

******************************************** 

这就是马来西亚的政治

还有另一个原因是让国阵能够支持卡迪尔的。在定夺霹雳州州政权案件的合法性上，上诉法院是赖于卡迪尔在1995年沙巴案件里的一句不起眼的句子而裁定（巫统）夺权是合法的。在作出上述决定时上诉法院是引用卡迪尔·苏莱曼在1995年Amir Kahar案件里所作出的陈述的.

卡迪尔Kadir是个能被接受的人选？

（马来西亚内幕，2013年6月21日）– 民联希望前法官拿督卡迪尔·苏莱曼Datuk Kadir Sulaiman 能在周一国会开会时被推举为新议长。他们认为拿督斯里纳吉和国阵会认为他是个一个可以接受的选择。

毕竟，他是个有头有面的人物；他曾为登嘉楼王室服务。再者，委任像卡迪尔这样背景的人并不是一件（巫统）打破新格局的事情。

之前已经就有一个前法官担任众议院议长的先例了。敦查希尔·伊斯马尔Tun Zahir Ismail 之前是高等法院法官，他后来成为了在马来西亚史上任职时间最长的议长。

还有另一个原因是让国阵能够支持卡迪尔的。在定夺霹雳州州政权案件的合法性上，上诉法院是赖于卡迪尔在1995年沙巴案件里的一句不起眼的句子而裁定（巫统）夺权是合法的。

霹雳州夺权案的问题症结在与当州务大臣拿督斯里尼查和霹雳州苏丹会面时他是否还拥有多数州议员的支持，而当时这位马来君主要求他下台是个很正确的决定。

上诉法院认为苏丹要求尼查下台是正确的，因为后者已无法取得多数议员的支持了。法院也补充说，法律上是没有明文规定必须在州议会里投下没信心票的（这一点一直是民联最大的争议点）。

在作出上述决定时上诉法院是引用卡迪尔·苏莱曼在1995年Amir Kahar案件里所作出的陈述的。

“首席部长不再拥有大部分议员的信心的证据。。。。不只是出于州议会的投票而已。宪法里根本就没有什么东西可以用来明确地要求考验信心的证据必须得以在州议会里投票来表决的。这背后的证据可以是来自其他外来来源的。”

上诉法院就是依靠以上这一段来支持他们的决定：尼查是没有必要在州议院面对不信任投票的，霹雳州苏丹那依靠外来证据来源的决定是很正确的。

资深律师们都很严厉地批评这决定，因为卡迪尔的陈述只是个‘旁论obiter dicta ’。这并不是他决定的关键，这仅仅只是一个一次性的观察而已。

尽管如此，上诉法院还是依赖这个陈述，而国阵在知道了有一个志同道合的，名为卡迪尔的法官后才松了口气。

民联认为马来西亚法庭并不公正和专为政府工作，而马来西亚法官们都是一些烂泥人渣和无可救药地腐败。因此，我们不能相信马来西亚司法系统或马来西亚法官。

然而，民联现在正设法要把一名退休法官被委任为新议长。这种想法似乎和‘我们不能相信马来西亚法官’的说法是相互矛盾的。

正当民联对外声称马来西亚警察和军队是政府的工具时，我们也看到他们和许多退休的警察和军事人员有着密切的合作。

此外，我们还看到民联为曾经被诬蔑为是水蛭的王室成员歌公颂德，原因是这些人现在都转而支持反对派了。民联甚至还推举这些人在最近的大选里上阵。

这简直是个峰回路转的变故。我敢打赌，如果那些‘腐败和邪恶的人’从国阵跳槽到民联的话他们的罪行会立即被原谅，而民联上层也将张开双臂并以盛况和狂欢的方式欢迎他们的加入。

这就是马来西亚的政治；只是你踏出那几步从政府走向反对党您就可以从撒旦转化成耶稣了。你甚至还不需要还回你在权时所盗取的金钱。

敦马应该注意这一点。当他开始发现到国阵已要倒闭而民联将要接管一切时，他所需要做的就只是赞同委任安华为首相和林吉祥为副首相的决定而已；如此他就会被誉为是马来西亚史上最伟大的首相了。

这就是马来西亚的政治。