{"id":1521,"date":"2008-03-10T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T03:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/03\/10\/tussle-for-perak-mb-seat\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T03:29:07","slug":"tussle-for-perak-mb-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/03\/10\/tussle-for-perak-mb-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tussle for Perak MB seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hmm..looks like this will be sticky point for the new government. DAP won most seats, but the Perak constitution says:<\/p>\n

…that the candidate for Mentri Besar must be a Malay and profess the Muslim religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nPerak DAP chief says:<\/p>\n

…this requirement could only be overruled “provided that his Royal Highness may in His discretion waive either or both of the requirements of this clause relating to race and the Muslim religion whenever he shall consider it expedient to do so”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He rightly mentions that since DAP won 18 seats, it should have a say in the choice of MB, but whether the Regent will accept a non-Muslim non-Malay as MB is yet to be seen.<\/p>\n

Added to this problem is the demand from Indian community to have a Indian deputy minister. How is the fledgling govt going to balance the requests?<\/p>\n

New ruling coalition to meet Perak Sultan over MB post<\/p>\n

source<\/a><\/p>\n

IPOH: State DAP, PAS and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) leaders will seek an audience with the Sultan of Perak Sultan Azlan Shah today to propose the names of two possible candidates to be the next Mentri Besar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The meeting, set to take place at 4pm at Istana Kinta here, is expected to be attended by Perak DAP chief Ngeh Koo Ham, party secretary Nga Kor Ming, Perak PAS commissioner Ahmad Awang, party state election director Asmuni Awi, Perak PKR chairman Zulkifly Ibrahim and party election commissioner Ismail Yusop.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ahmad said the coalition had arrived at the names of two suitable candidates who could assume the post of Mentri Besar. He, however, declined to reveal their identities and which party they were from. “We have agreed on the principle that the candidate should be a Malay. “The names were selected based on who, of the nine, would be the best and most suitable to take on the responsibility,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speculation is rife that the first name offered up would be that of Perak PAS secretary Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin who clinched the Pasir Panjang state seat on Saturday’s polls. Mohammad Nizar, however, denied the rumours, saying he would wait for the party leadership to inform him of any development. When contacted, Zulkifly quashed the assumption that there was now a tussle between the three parties for the Mentri Besar’s seat. “It is just one seat. The best person will take the post. There is no argument between members of parties as to who should get it,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ngeh also denied that there was a tussle but added the DAP central executive committee (CEC) will meet in Penang to decide on who from PKR or PAS would be the new Mentri Besar. “We will announce the decision tomorrow (today),” he told a press conference here. Ngeh, who won the Beruas parliamentary and retained the Sitiawan state seats, pointed out that the Perak Constitution states that the candidate for Mentri Besar must be a Malay and profess the Muslim religion<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said this requirement could only be overruled “provided that his Royal Highness may in His discretion waive either or both of the requirements of this clause relating to race and the Muslim religion whenever he shall consider it expedient to do so”.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ngeh declined to comment whether the DAP would stake a claim on the Mentri Besar post. “It is a decision that the CEC has to make,” he added. On why the DAP should determine who will be the next Mentri Besar, Ngeh said the party won the most number of state seats within the Opposition.<\/span> The DAP secured 18 state seats while PKR took seven and PAS six.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hmm..looks like this will be sticky point for the new government. DAP won most seats, but the Perak constitution says: …that the candidate for Mentri Besar must be a Malay and profess the Muslim religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[119,130],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-dap","tag-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}