{"id":3306,"date":"2009-02-04T12:43:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T04:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2009-02-04T12:43:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T04:43:46","slug":"perak-state-assembly-to-be-dissolved-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/02\/04\/perak-state-assembly-to-be-dissolved-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Perak state assembly to be dissolved today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/97547\" target=\"_blank\">Malaysiakini <\/a>reports as below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perak assembly to be dissolved today?<br \/>\nFeb 4, 09 12:12pm<br \/>\nPerak Menteri Besar Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin is expected to have an audience with the sultan within the next hour. It is learnt that he is seeking the dissolution of the state assembly.<\/p>\n<p>If the sultan accedes to the request, a snap state election will have to be called in view of the present political uncertainty in Perak as a result of defections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MB Nizar said that this would be the last option, yesterday. Looks like Pakatan has no choice. They may argue about the legality of EC&#8217;s statement or the validity of the resignation letter, but previous court cases had favored the elected representatives. So, rather than taking chances in court, the state government decides to take chance in election, if they state assembly is dissolved today.<\/p>\n<p>If dissolved, it would be a election that BN won&#8217;t appreciate especially with the economic problems at hand. On the other side, the creation of dual JKKKs and and other steps by Federal government may create awareness in Perak that if the same coalitions rules both Federal and state, things will be easy (but not necessarily something which is good\/right). <\/p>\n<p>The Bota assemblyman may lose in coming elections, while the two ex-PKR fellow may well see the end of their political careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysiakini reports as below: Perak assembly to be dissolved today? Feb 4, 09 12:12pm Perak Menteri Besar Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin is expected to have an audience with the sultan within the next hour. It is learnt that he is seeking the dissolution of the state assembly. If the sultan accedes to the request, a snap [&hellip;]<\/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":[196,148],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-elections","tag-perak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","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=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3308,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}