Pakatan does not want Mukhriz removed the way Khalid was


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Pakatan Harapan wants the removal of Mukhriz to be done in the proper way and not in the way that Pakatan Rakyat removed Khalid.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

The opposition coalition, Pakatan Harapan, is against the removal of Kedah Menteri Besar, Mukhriz Mahathir, unless it is done through a vote of no confidence in the Kedah State Assembly. They will not support the removal of Mukhriz if it is done the way Pakatan Rakyat removed Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim. (SEE NEWS ITEM BELOW)

Pakatan Rakyat ousted Khalid by forcing all its State Assemblypersons to sign Statutory Declarations (SDs). All the State Assemblypersons from DAP and PKR signed but only two from PAS did. Nevertheless, they still got the majority vote even though some complained that they were coerced into signing the SDs against their will.

Pakatan Rakyat then sent those SDs to HRH the Sultan of Selangor and demanded that HRH sack Khalid and appoint Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as his replacement. When the Sultan refused, Pakatan Rakyat launched an anti-Sultan campaign and whacked him to kingdom come. Even the Sultan’s son was whacked and was called an apostate who had converted to Christianity.

Pakatan Harapan does not want Barisan Nasional Kedah to do what Pakatan Rakyat did in Selangor. Pakatan Rakyat played with SDs and pressured the Sultan of Selangor to replace the Menteri Besar. Pakatan Harapan does not want Barisan Nasional Kedah to play with SDs and pressure the Sultan of Kedah to replace the Menteri Besar.

Pakatan Harapan wants the removal of Mukhriz to be done in the proper way and not in the way that Pakatan Rakyat removed Khalid.

Finally Pakatan Harapan is admitting that what Pakatan Rakyat did in Selangor was wrong. Pakatan Harapan agrees that a gun should not have been put at the Sultan’s head. Dr Wan Azizah even went further to say that you need a ‘compelling justifiable reason’ to remove a Menteri Besar and not just because the Menteri Besar does not listen to the party president like in the case of Khalid in Selangor.

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Kedah opposition reps demand confidence vote on MB

(Malay Mail Online) – Opposition assemblymen in Kedah called today for a confidence vote to be tabled at the state legislative assembly to resolve the mentri besar crisis.

The Star Online reported today that the 15 opposition assemblymen from Pakatan Harapan and PAS issued a statement hours before their meeting with the Kedah Regency Council, saying that Kedah laws should be respected and that the state assembly should determine the MB’s position, amid a bid by several Umno representatives to oust Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir as mentri besar.

“We praise the palace for summoning us to get our views. The Council is upholding democratic principles and the people’s rights,” the opposition assemblymen were quoted saying.

The royal council met Barisan Nasional (BN) assemblymen yesterday and is scheduled to meet opposition representatives later in the afternoon.

PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said in a statement today that any decision to remove a chief minister from any state must be based on a justifiable reason.

“In the absence of compelling justifiable reason, our view is to maintain and support the status quo. This is especially pertinent when concerning a member who enjoys the support of the majority,” she said.

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said in Penang that a confidence motion should be tabled at the Kedah legislative assembly and that the DAP would decide how to respond later if such a motion was tabled.

The 36-seat Kedah state legislative assembly is made up of 21 BN representatives, including two from MCA and the rest from Umno; eight from PAS, four from PKR, two from the DAP and one from Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah).

Kedah Umno deputy chairman Datuk Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah recently led a delegation of Umno division leaders to express their loss of confidence in Mukhriz, citing the first-term mentri besar’s purported failures to govern the state and to unite the party, as well as his lack of strategy to face the next general elections due in 2018.

 



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