Does Dr M need SDs to complete his term as PM?

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Publish date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020, 11:31 PM

COMMENTARY, Feb 14 — As many as 138 out of 222 MPs are alleged to have signed statutory declarations (SDs) in support of sitting Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad staying the full term in the latest political twist enveloping Malaysia.

According to news reports, the remainder denied signing any SDs or being approached by anyone about it, raising questions on the existence of such a document and more significantly its purpose and relevance.

For such SDs are different than the ones signed by the late P. Balasubramaniam, a former private detective in relation to the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibu and by her convicted killer, former police officer Azilah Hadri.

If such SDs exist, for those MPs who signed them in support of Dr Mahathir and then choose to lie low is mind boggling even to the ordinary Malaysian who see it as an attempt to portray the sitting PM as lacking confidence in his own support.

This does not bode well for Malaysia given that public confidence in the Pakatan Harapan coalition they voted in has declined in just under two years.

If the purpose of the SD is only as a promise of support, it would be better to table it as a motion in Parliament as PAS has suggested.

But if the Dewan Rakyat Speaker were to reject the motion, would those MPs who signed the SDs then seek an audience with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong for Dr Mahathir to continue leading the government until the next general election?

Or would the prime minister-in-waiting Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim push for a motion of no-confidence against his own coalition chairman so he can take over the government?

And if there were to be such a move by Anwar, would the purported SDs in support of Dr Mahathir then lose their validity?

The real crux of the political matter boils down to the matter of when Dr Mahathir should hand over the prime minister position to Anwar.

Supporters of Anwar want a specific date, which Dr Mahathir has repeatedly said he cannot give because of the current administrative problems he hopes to complete beforehand.

Furthermore, Dr Mahathir is not a person who would seek support through SDs to convince Parliament and Malaysians that he is doing the right thing to remain in government until such a time as he feels he should leave.

In 2009, the Perak state government then under Pakatan Rakyat fell to Barisan Nasional because three assemblymen jumped over.

It prompted then mentri besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Nizar Jamaluddin to call for a dissolution of the assembly, which was refused by the sultan.

The matter went to court and the Court of Appeal ruled that the sultan had the right to decide who held the mandate, which in the Perak constitutional crisis went to the BN.

No SDs were involved then.

In the end, it is a vote by MPs in the Dewan Rakyat that really matters.

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/02/14/does-dr-m-need-sds-to-complete-his-term-as-pm/1837669

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EngineeringProfit

Poisonous twisting tongue he got......

......hadi's previous quotes:

"Now he’s in old age … his time is up (SLENDER? FITNAH?)....Mahathir can't seem to unite his own party. How is he going to govern this country?.....

.....please don’t vote him......Let him rest, he’s very old. It’s not the right time for him to be prime minister. That time has passed, and he can’t change that......In 1969 he was still young and strong … now he’s much older and more tired.......

2020-02-15 07:04

EngineeringProfit

Soon his plot would backfire when AI takes over....

2020-02-15 07:05

EngineeringProfit

hadi thinks a wise person is someone who solves problems.

*Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems. And he was correct when he pointed out tdm like Victor Frankenstein - who had earlier created the problem....

......expect problem creator to be able to be the solution??

* Again, the truth is, a wise person is someone who could anticipate and avoid problems in the first place

2020-02-15 07:49

DickyMe2

The problem is easy to solve. The old man has to tell them off! However, he seems to enjoy the attention given to him and loves to keep the people in chaos. A sadist racist!

2020-02-15 10:01

stockraider

Post removed.Why?

2020-02-15 12:50

EngineeringProfit

This is a Curse of Hypocrisy in the 21st Century

The historical betrayal on the part of the left parties, trade union leaders and traditional populist leaderships has added insult to global economic recession. The corrupt and plundering democracies have increased social frustration. With no way forward some backward sections of the masses and petty bourgeoisie have started looking backwards. The strategists of fundamentalism have exploited the vices of the present leaders and system and are offering the illusion of the virtues of a distant past epoch.

2020-02-15 12:53

EngineeringProfit

Part 2: On hypocrisy in the 21st Century

The hypocrisy of imperialism and fundamentalism is very reciprocal. These fanatic leaders use the anti-global-citizenry sentiments amongst his narrowed-minded followers to further expand their base.

The rising levels of unemployment give rise to large scale lumpenisation in society. This is capitalised on by the fundamental organisations, who not only fuel out-group enmity (via primitive-tribalism-inspired apartheidism) and provide money (CASH IS KING) to these hordes of lumpen youth, but also function in the form of deep state to give criminals sanctuary where they are safely hidden away from the hands of the state machine.

Large sections of deprived, frustrated and bewildered youth enter into fundamentalism in the same way as many tries to find an escape in a drug dose. They cannot face the challenges, hence they try to use fundamentalism as a path into oblivion. Sooner rather than later they will have to wake up. A large number of raw youth, especially those migrating from rural to urban areas, are shocked by the social and cultural conditions they find in the cities. They revert to fundamentalism seeking piety and honesty.

They try to find eternal peace in religiosity to get solace for their souls and minds. But when these captives of faith face the stark reality of fundamentalism and it bares its ugly fac it is perhaps too late. This comes at the point of no return. In sheer desperation they give themselves away to become fodder of this frenzy and most of them are lost from life forever . Those who survive find themselves as some of the most corrupted and monstrous creatures on this planet.

2020-02-15 13:01

EngineeringProfit

Posted by DickyMe2 > Feb 15, 2020 10:01 AM | Report Abuse

The problem is easy to solve. The old man has to tell them off! .......

____________

Correct.

2020-02-15 13:04

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