Jiuhu PM Stages A Coup To Remain In Power After Losing Parliamentary Majority! UMNO and Mad Hatter Says Moomoodin Is A Dictator!

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Malaysia will not see any change of government while its emergency is in effect, according to a proclamation gazetted late on Thursday, meaning that embattled Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will remain in power despite appearing to have lost his parliamentary majority this week.

This comes as the emergency order, which gained royal assent on Monday and resulted in Parliament being suspended, drew criticism from across the political divide and spurred the opposition to explore avenues to reverse it.

The state of emergency is set to continue until Aug 1, but can be lifted earlier if an independent committee decides that the coronavirus pandemic is under control.

"For so long as the emergency is in force... the Prime Minister and the Cabinet existing immediately prior to the issuance of the Proclamation of Emergency on Jan 11, 2021 who have been conferred the executive functions shall continue to exercise the executive authority of the Federation and such other persons who have been conferred the executive functions by law shall continue to exercise such functions," declared the gazette.

The same provision applies to existing state governments, and with both federal and state legislatures suspended, all power to make rules now rests with the executive.

Former premier Mahathir Mohamad yesterday labelled Tan Sri Muhyiddin a "dictator" for resorting to declaring the emergency on the grounds that his government could better tackle surging Covid-19 infections without being sidetracked by politics.

"It will be a kind of dictatorship where people cannot protest or question," Tun Dr Mahathir said on radio station BFM. "We are doing away with democracy completely by using the emergency in order to give Muhyiddin full power without anyone saying anything."

Even some leaders from Umno, part of the ruling Perikatan Nasional (PN) pact, have poured scorn on the move. Supreme council member Razlan Rafii said Mr Muhyiddin's warning of "stern action" against those who undermine the government's efforts to combat Covid-19 during the emergency creates a climate of fear.

Former law minister Nazri Aziz, one of two Umno MPs who withdrew support for Mr Muhyiddin in the past week, said "when he applied for the emergency, it means he admitted he has lost and no longer enjoys majority support".

Only 109 out of Malaysia's 220 MPs - with two seats remaining vacant in Parliament - now back the PN government. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who has in recent months made unsubstantiated claims of holding a parliamentary majority, on Thursday said the emergency proposal was "illegitimate due to the reduced number of MPs that support the government".

"The Prime Minister is focused on retaining power," he wrote in a memo to all MPs. "Therefore it is hoped the honourable member can send a memo to the King to request His Majesty's grace and wisdom to retract the Proclamation of Emergency and decree that Parliament must convene by Jan 31."

Lawmakers from Datuk Seri Anwar's Parti Keadilan Rakyat are also mounting a challenge.

Pasir Gudang MP Hassan Karim said the suspension of Parliament must be "challenged and opposed" as the Constitution allows for Parliament to sit during an emergency. Selayang MP William Leong is also gathering a group of senior lawyers to overturn the emergency order in court.

Malaysia extended its stringent movement controls to a sixth state - Kelantan - yesterday. Daily infections registered at 3,211 cases, while eight new fatalities were reported, bringing the death toll to 586.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/no-change-of-kl-govt-amid-emergency-says-gazette

 

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Dr Mahathir, Pejuang lawmakers apply to join lawsuit on Agong’s powers to refuse Emergency declaration | Malay Mail
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and four others had on January 12 jointly filed an intervener application to ask the High Court in Kuala Lumpur to allow them to be part of lawyer Syed Iskandar Syed Jaafar’s lawsuit against the Malaysian government. — Reuters pic
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and four others had on January 12 jointly filed an intervener application to ask the High Court in Kuala Lumpur to allow them to be part of lawyer Syed Iskandar Syed Jaafar’s lawsuit against the Malaysian government. — Reuters pic
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — Langkawi MP Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and four other lawmakers from his Pejuang party are now seeking to be part of a constitutional court challenge regarding the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s discretion to refuse to declare an Emergency.

The four others who are seeking to be interveners are Pejuang president and Jerlun MP Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir, Pejuang secretary-general and Kubang Pasu MP Datuk Amiruddin Hamzah, Sri Gading MP Datuk Shahruddin Md Salleh, as well as Pejuang deputy president and Dewan Negara lawmaker Datuk Marzuki Yahya.

Dr Mahathir who is also Pejuang chairman and the four others had on January 12 jointly filed an intervener application to ask the High Court in Kuala Lumpur to allow them to be part of lawyer Syed Iskandar Syed Jaafar’s lawsuit against the Malaysian government.

In the January 12 court papers sighted by Malay Mail, Dr Mahathir and the four had explained their application to get the court’s leave or permission to be part of the lawsuit.

Among other things, the five Pejuang lawmakers argued that they have the constitutional rights to be part of the lawsuit in order to fulfill their constitutional oaths of protecting and defending the Federal Constitution.

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The five also argued that they would be the ones most affected by any decision of the court in this lawsuit, including in terms of their constitutional rights under the Federal Constitution’s Article 62 and Article 63 to debate and vote on any drafting and amendments of law and to voice out for voters in the Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Negara.

The five also said that their position as members of Parliament would enable them to help the court to decide on the important constitutional matters raised in the lawsuit, and argued that their status as MPs meant they have the legal rights to help the court interpret constitutional matters.

Apart from that, they argued that they have the constitutional right as MPs to provide testimony in court to help the High Court decide on the law, and that they as MPs have the legal obligation to protect the Federal Constitution.

“The proposed interveners as MPs have legitimate interest and legal interest to be made parties to this Originating Summons action,” the five said when referring to themselves.

Malay Mail also sighted a separate application by the five for their intervener application to be heard before or by February 18 to preserve their rights.

In the application by lawyer Muhammad Rafique Rashid Ali who represents the five, he noted that the High Court had already fixed February 18 to hear four other applications others also seeking to be interveners in the lawsuit.

The four other intervener applications are by Malaysian Muslim Lawyers Association secretary-general Ridha Abdah Subri; lawyer Mohd Khairul Azam Abdul Aziz and Malcolm Fernandez; Nazira Abdul Rahim; and Centre For a Better Tomorrow.

In the application, Rafique had said his five clients’ intervener application should be expedited as the constitutional issues in the lawsuit involve public interest and should be decided quickly, and as his clients’ rights as members of Parliament would be affected if their intervener application was not heard earlier or by February 18.

When contacted, Rafique confirmed the filing of the court documents on January 12, and said the sealed copies will be served to the parties in the lawsuit.

“We are awaiting the sealed copies to be extracted before serving on parties concerned,” he told Malay Mail.

In Syed Iskandar’s lawsuit filed on October 30, 2020, the lawyer had noted the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s October 25 refusal to declare an Emergency as sought by the prime minister on October 23, describing this as the ruler’s “rejection of the prime minister’s advice” for an Emergency to be declared.

Syed Iskandar had in court papers claimed that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong had exercised his functions in a manner inconsistent with the Federal Constitution’s Article 40 and Article 150 when declining to act on the advice of the prime minister or Cabinet.

In his lawsuit, Syed Iskandar had posed two questions of constitutional and public importance for the court to decide, including whether the Yang di-Pertuan Agong has an “unfettered discretion” not to declare an Emergency despite the advice of the prime minister or Cabinet for an Emergency declaration, based on a true construction of Article 40 and Article 150 of the Federal Constitution.

The second question was on whether Act 514 (Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994) which amended the Federal Constitution’s Article 150 by adding clauses (8) and (9) is violative of the basic structure of the Federal Constitution, when the Federal Constitution’s Article 4(1) is taken into account.

Months after the October 2020 events and the filing of Syed Iskandar’s lawsuit, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on January 12 announced an Emergency on Malaysia, just a day after Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin presented the ruler with the Cabinet’s advice for an Emergency to be declared.

The Proclamation of Emergency nationwide was gazetted on January 12 and deemed to be in effect from January 11 to August 1, while the Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance 2021 — which suspends all elections and the sitting of Parliament — was gazetted on January 14 and also deemed to have taken effect from January 11 onwards.

 

[syed putra]

Moodin was briefed by PAP on what to do when he was admitted into mount Elizabeth hospital for seversl weeks

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Umno MPs asked to support Parliamentary sitting to discuss Emergency, but Annuar says ‘treasonous’ act against Agong | Malay Mail
Tan Sri Annuar Musa speaks during a press conference in Putrajaya January 6, 2021. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
Tan Sri Annuar Musa speaks during a press conference in Putrajaya January 6, 2021. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 19 — Tan Sri Annuar Musa has chided his Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan today, after claiming the latter called on Umno MPs yesterday to support a special Parliamentary sitting to discuss the state of Emergency.

Annuar also accused the Barisan Nasional (BN) and Umno secretary-general of making unrealistic demands that may be “treasonous” to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, pointing out that a parliamentary session cannot be called until the Emergency ends on August 1 based on the Emergency Ordinance.


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“Unfortunately there is a glaring error in his interpretation of Article 150(3) of the Federal Constitution,” the Ketereh MP said in a tweet.

“It does not say that we must have a Parliamentary session as soon as the proclamation of Emergency was made by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

“He should know by now that the Emergency proclamation was made using Article 150(1) with Parliament suspended. It can only reconvene when the Emergency ends on August 1.

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“It’s best the secretary-general seeks help from constitutional experts so he can be smarter when it comes to the laws of the country,” he added.

Under Article 150(3) of the Federal Constitution, a proclamation of emergency and any ordinances done under it must be presented to the Parliament, and may be annulled if the Parliament passes a resolution to that effect.

However, Section 14(1) the recently gazetted Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance 2021 has seemingly contradicted it by stating that the Parliament is prorogued until the Emergency ends, and can only be called at the discretion of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

It is understood that Ahmad wrote a letter addressed to Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri yesterday asking all Umno and BN MPs to vote by today through WhatsApp whether to call for an immediate Parliament sitting to discuss the Emergency declaration.

Annuar, who was recently replaced by Ahmad himself as BN secretary-general, accused the latter of going against the Agong’s decree.

“Umno or BN MPs cannot petition the King to undo what is constitutionally done. There is no legal provision for us to do so. There is no legal leg for us to stand on. Our actions are doomed to fail,” Annuar said.

“Your actions by sending this letter out can be deemed as going against the party’s ethics, is an insult to the party and can be deemed treasonous against the Agong.

“I for one wholeheartedly disagree with this move that is unconstitutional and against the party’s policies,” he added.

Malay Mail is currently seeking verification from Ahmad, and other Umno and BN leaders over the move.

The Proclamation of Emergency nationwide was gazetted on January 12, and deemed to be in effect from January 11 to August 1.

The Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance 2021 was gazetted on January 14, but deemed to have taken effect from January 11 onwards.

In his January 12 speech on the Emergency declaration by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said that all elections and Parliament sittings would be suspended, but gave his assurance that the judiciary will continue to function during the Emergency and that the courts will not face any government interference.

Umno’s proposal follows Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s call after saying he wrote to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to ask that the latter rescind the Proclamation of Emergency placed across Malaysia until August 1.

According to Anwar’s letter that he shared with the media, he said Muhyiddin had misled the Agong with the advice for the proclamation and that Muhyiddin was also in no position to do so as his government no longer has majority support among federal lawmakers.

PKR’s Pasir Gudang MP Hassan Abdul Karim and Selayang MP William Leong are also spearheading two separate legal challenges dispute the Proclamation of Emergency.

 

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Deputy Speaker refuses Parliamentary sitting to discuss Emergency, but says Malaysia not following global convention | Malay Mail
Deputy Dewan Rakyat Speaker Datuk Seri Azalina Othman (centre) is pictured at Parliament in Kuala Lumpur July 14, 2020. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Deputy Dewan Rakyat Speaker Datuk Seri Azalina Othman (centre) is pictured at Parliament in Kuala Lumpur July 14, 2020. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 19 — Dewan Rakyat Deputy Speaker Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said has today refused a special Parliamentary sitting to discuss the state of Emergency as requested by her party’s secretary-general Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan.

She said there are no provisions in the Constitution that allow anyone to challenge the Emergency Ordinance which was decreed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong last week as written in Article 150(8) of the Federal Constitution.

Instead, she suggested other actions be taken by her fellow Umno MPs that can be brought to the Agong’s attention.

“I would suggest a special bipartisan committee to advice the Agong on matters pertaining to the constitution and the people’s freedom of rights. It can consist of members of the Dewan Rakyat or the State Legislative Assemblies.

“The agreement to form the Perikatan Nasional Presidential Council last year can also be used as a mechanism for Umno to channel its input, recommendations and objections regarding government policies during the Emergency or movement control order 2.0 period,” said Azalina in a statement.

Azalina however pointed out that there are only two other Commonwealth countries with a similar Emergency Ordinance like Malaysia in their Constitution: India and Pakistan.

“From what I gather they have not used this Ordinance to call an Emergency in their countries to combat the Covid-19 pandemic,” she stressed.

In addition to that, Azalina also said her research found that in other countries that have declared a state of Emergency, the Parliamentary sessions still continue as usual.

The MP for Pengerang said these nations prepared for an eventual emergency declaration by amending the rules of the meeting to allow for an online or virtual session to take place but it was not done in Malaysia during the previous session.

“It must be stressed that Article 14(1) of the Ordinance that the Agong decreed mentions that any Parliament session can only take place at a time the Agong deems suitable. As such, I feel the chances of calling for a parliamentary session or cancelling the Emergency are very slim.

“Based on these reasons, I reject and disagree with the request by the MP for Pontian for us to give our support for this special Parliamentary sitting,” she said.

It is understood that Ahmad wrote a letter addressed to Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob yesterday, asking all Umno and BN MPs to vote by today through WhatsApp whether to call for an immediate Parliament sitting to discuss the Emergency declaration.

This was met with heavy criticism from the public including from former Umno sec-gen Tan Sri Annuar Musa, who told Ahmad to get advice from a constitutional expert before making remarks and demands he said were “treasonous” against the Agong.

Under Article 150(3) of the Federal Constitution, a proclamation of emergency and any ordinances done under it must be presented to the Parliament, and may be annulled if the Parliament passes a resolution to that effect.

However, Section 14(1) of the recently gazetted Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance 2021 has seemingly contradicted it by stating that the Parliament is prorogued until the Emergency ends, and can only be called at the discretion of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

The Proclamation of Emergency nationwide was gazetted on January 12, and deemed to be in effect from January 11 to August 1.

The Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance 2021 was gazetted on January 14, but deemed to have taken effect from January 11 onwards.

In his January 12 speech on the Emergency declaration by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said that all elections and Parliament sittings would be suspended, but gave his assurance that the judiciary will continue to function during the Emergency and that the courts will not face any government interference.

Umno’s proposal follows Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s call after saying he wrote to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to ask that the latter rescind the Proclamation of Emergency placed across Malaysia until August 1.

According to Anwar’s letter that he shared with the media, he said Muhyiddin had misled the Agong with the advice for the proclamation and that Muhyiddin was also in no position to do so as his government no longer has majority support among federal lawmakers.

PKR’s Pasir Gudang MP Hassan Abdul Karim and Selayang MP William Leong are also spearheading two separate legal challenges dispute the Proclamation of Emergency.

 

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Muslim group says will countersue if Anwar goes ahead with legal challenge against Emergency declaration | Malay Mail
Gerakan Pembela Ummah chairman Mohd Zai Mustafa speaks during a press conference in Shah Alam September 24, 2020. ― Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Gerakan Pembela Ummah chairman Mohd Zai Mustafa speaks during a press conference in Shah Alam September 24, 2020. ― Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 19 — Gerakan Pembela Ummah (Ummah), a coalition of 500 Muslim groups, today said it will intervene to block Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s lawsuit if the Opposition leader takes the government to court over the nationwide proclamation of Emergency.

Ummah chairman Mohd Zai Mustafa said Anwar’s actions were akin to questioning the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s wisdom, noting that the King made the proclamation only after consultation with the ruling government and senior officials.

“The actions of Anwar also paints him as someone who is just power crazy and practises politics without limits to the point he is willing to gamble with the fate of the people and national security,” Mohd Zai said in a statement on the group’s Facebook page.

“He should actually be getting behind the government to encourage the spirit or patriotism among the rakyat and call for national unity to be strengthened to face the huge challenges the country is facing right now, just as the Agong had previously advised during the opening of previous Parliament,” he added.

Mohd Zai said that Ummah will then be prepared with their own legal team to face and challenge the appeal that will be filed by Anwar’s team.

This he said, would all be done for the sake of defending the powers of the Agong as provided and stated within the Federal Constitution.

“Ummah will on our end also prepare a team of legal experts ready to challenge and appeal against such actions,” he added.

Anwar had criticised the Perikatan Nasional government for reversing its own policies and causing widespread confusion in handling the Covid-19 pandemic.

Accusing it of poor leadership and inciting panic by being unclear in its messages, Anwar announced his intention to challenge Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and the government for forcing a state of Emergency on the country.

The Port Dickson MP said the decision to resort to a declaration of an Emergency was a reckless and desperate move by the administration, one devoid of a rational basis.

The state of Emergency was declared by Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah on January 12, and will last until August 1, or until Covid-19 cases return to a manageable point.

The King’s announcement came a day after Muhyiddin had announced the re-implementation of the movement control order in six states for at least 14-days beginning January 13, after thousands of new Covid-19 infections were being detected nationwide.

 

[syed putra]

Agung dowan election during scamdemic. Next election It will be the same thing. Days of dominant party rule is over in jiu hu.

 

[KuanTi01]

No one believes that the declaration of emergency is really because of the Covid-19 situation. Muhyddin is hanging on to power by all foul and desperate means.

 

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State Of Emergency 'To Prevent An Election' - Pandemic Or Politics?
State Of Emergency 'To Prevent An Election' - Pandemic Or Politics?
12 January 2021
Sadly, four people died yesterday of Covid 19 in Malaysia. The upside to this distressing loss is that the figure pales into insignificance compared to the case count and hospitalisations in more populated, cosmopolitan and free moving societies (most days last week in the US saw over 4,000 deaths).

Malaysia comes 69th out of 193 countries in terms of total deaths and rates only 136th in terms of deaths per capita, according to the respected Johns Hopkins University data.

This year only 555 people have succumbed to the virus, which is about double the number of people who die (unfortunately largely unremarked) from dengue fever which in 2019 clocked up almost the same number of cases (130,000) as Covid 19 did the following year.

Just yesterday the Prime Minister himself announced movement control orders specifically designed to counter the current threats of an upsurge without any reference to plans to suspend Parliament.

These were practical measures to counter the virus, just as in other countries similar emergency restrictions have been put before parliaments which have generally voted in favour of the short-term emergency measures that have impeded people’s normal freedoms.

However, what the Prime Minister then slapped on the country, with the backing of the King just one day later, was a very different sort of State of Emergency. It was an order to suspend the very Parliament that ought by rights to have been consulted on these very developments.

In no other democratic country has such a step been taken. To the contrary Parliaments have been called to validate the emergency health measures, not suspended.

The Prime Minister could not have been more candid about the reason. He wants to PREVENT the calling of Parliament because he admits he has lost his majority and would likely be turfed from office. The only thing that was different from when he announced the practical medical control orders the day before were the further defections from his ruling coalition.

His ‘medical’ excuse in the speech he gave yesterday was his unfounded claim that the loss of his majority would necessarily result in an election being called. Not so, of course.

His concern about an election, as he would have people believe, is only that it would spread Covid 19 in the country. Nothing to do with the fact that it would inevitably see him dumped from office, given his party represents only a vanishing fraction of the electorate.

In his speech, Mr Muhyiddin noted that there “are some parties desperate to hold a general election”.
He said: “It is not my intention not to hold a general election. The main issue that prevents me from advising the king to dissolve parliament to hold the election is the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Holding a general election while the pandemic is ongoing will threaten the lives of the people, he added.” [Channel News Asia]

The minority prime minister then went on to kindly reassure people that this was not a “military coup” instead, it would appear that it is a royal coup given the acquiescence of the Agong in this extraordinary ‘bending’ of the Constitution:

“The emergency proclaimed by the king is not a military coup and curfews will not be enforced,”

In order to ‘avoid elections’ the monarch has indicated he will suspend the sovereign body of Parliament till August, in defiance of the Constitution which decrees that Parliament cannot be suspended for more than six months. The Agong and his personally appointed PM had likewise defied the Constitution last year on the same grounds, of course, and took the time to buy defectors.

This means that whilst other worse affected countries are planning on getting the pandemic under control through vaccinations within the next two to three months this unelected minority administration intends to shield itself from oversight and scrutiny and indeed from the consequences of its own lack of a legitimate majority for a further eight months. Doubtless Muhyiddin plans to spend the vast ‘Covid’ budget he forced through on once more buying back MPs.

Never mind – the King has made clear he is personally involving himself in managing the nation’s finances – in meetings with the PM’s top advisors on the economy this week (Istana Facebook)
Never mind – the King has made clear he is personally involving himself in managing the nation’s finances – in meetings with the PM’s top advisors on the economy this week (Istana Facebook)

This in a country that has one of the lowest incidences of Covid 19 in the entire world and where billions have been allocated to vaccines promised for the near future.

If Malaysians are being assured that the reason for calling a political state of emergency is Covid they should be aware the rest of the world isn’t buying it and nor are Malaysia’s own non-governmental bodies and the majority who now form the political opposition in the country.

“If this is the true underlying reason, the declaration of a national emergency is not only an overkill but an abuse of Executive power that places the country at great peril in the midst of the worst health and economic crisis this country has ever faced.
We also question the capability of the Muhyiddin government in handling the pandemic and economic crisis when their legitimacy as the ruling government are being challenge almost everyday, not only from the opposition but also from within the government composition itself.

The attempt to spin an equivalence between the various medical states of emergencies that have been voted through by parliaments in countries like France and Spain and the cancelling of parliament in Malaysia through a political state of emergency has deceived few foreign observers either.

This is now ABC Australia and the Associated Press summarised the situation:

ABC
Opposition lawmakers, analysts and critics said the emergency appeared aimed at halting the collapse of Muhyiddin’s government amid threats by the United Malays National Organization, the largest party in his ruling coalition, to withdraw support to force an early general election.
“If this is the true underlying reason, the declaration of a national emergency is not only an overkill but an abuse of executive power that places the country at great peril,” according to a joint statement by activist groups and nongovernmental organizations.

The fact of the matter is that Muhyiddin doesn’t need to declare a State of Emergency to avoid an election, he can just call Parliament and acknowledge he no longer holds a majority. The King can then offer the position to the leader of a larger party who can do so.

Even were the political crisis to be such that no one leader is able to form a majority, which appears unlikely, then an election could certainly be held just as they have been in other countries taking care to mitigate the danger of infections (do not hold the irresponsible campaigning in Sabah as an example rather look to the mail in balloting, online campaigning and social distancing tactics used in various other countries).

Some have even sought to spin that this is a noble move by Muhyiddin to prevent Najib from returning as prime minister. In the event of an election the convicted Najib could not stand.

As the world’s press and plenty in Malaysia are commenting, this is no more than another blatant attempt by a prime minister who never had a mandate in the first place to cling onto power in order that his rebel cohorts can continue to suck the country dry for another eight months and stash their loot before the ‘party’ comes to an end.

Mind the Constitution
Meanwhile, Sarawak Report invites the PM and all involved to review Article 150 (3) of the Constitution which makes perfectly clear that if a State of Emergency such as this is called then it must be placed before Parliament to be ratified.

To the contrary, this State of Emergency has been called for the very purpose of preventing Parliament from gaining the opportunity to hold this prime minister accountable for his actions. Grounds for impeachment?

When is this State of Emergency going to be put before Parliament?
When is this State of Emergency going to be put before Parliament?

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