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Which must always come to pass
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How shall I deal with you?
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Political Roguery Runs Riot In Perak
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver Stateā€™s Shaky Stability

Dr M, who preferred Najib over Pak Lah as PM, very correctly captured in his blog (when he predicted that those using bribery will win in the Umno elections in March) the coming catastrophe in this country: ā€œWe will get an Umno government that is corrupt and without morals.ā€ The backroom politics of Umno and its backdoor takeover of the Perak State Government, forms the perfect background for Najib to lead Bolehland into a political backwater. Many believe that the bedlam created by Umno in Perak will surely bring about a backlash expressed in the ballot-box of the next General Elections.

Confronted by Umnoā€™s hypocrisy, hopping highhandedness, hideous characters and hoax majority, the Menteri Besar (MB) of Perak and many Perakians turn to and place their hopes high on His Royal Highness (HRH) Sultan Azlan Shah ā€“ whom they hold in high regard. Surely on His Silver Jubilee as Sultan of the Silver State , the exemplary sovereign who was a former Lord President, will shine like a silver lining in the sordid state of affairs. Indeed, he will safeguard the sentiments of his subjects expressed in the last General Elections.

Sadly, the Sultanā€™s solution makes very little sense to his subjects. HRH seems swayed by Umnoā€™s political subterfuge and scheming. He summons the MB who sought a dissolution of the State Assembly. There will be no snap elections. The MB is told to step down, and to do so swiftly. The saddle belongs to Umno.

The popular MB of positive policies proves he is no pushover. All he wants is that the democratic procedures and process be followed properly. The Sultanā€™s personal discretion and his straying beyond his parameters of power is met with public disbelief and disappointment. Public perception over his impartiality plummets.

Respected retired judge N H Chan suggests that HRH has ā€œsidesteppedā€ provisions of the Perak constitution and made a ā€œfatal errorā€. Tengku Razaleigh strongly implies that the removal of the MB by HRH was done ā€œwithout regard for the rule of lawā€. And as Zaid Ibrahim sees it, ā€œpolitical questions should be resolved in the legislature and not behind closed doors in a palaceā€.

The Sultan returns Perak to its original stalemate. Nothing changes. Only the roles are reversed. The same razor thin majority remains. The initial political uncertainty is reinforced. Politicking in Perak ā€“ to remain in power or retain control ā€“ rages on, with each side trying to lure defectors.

The Sultan wants a ā€œstableā€ State Government. Umno assures HRH that it has the majority due to the solid backing of three defecting ā€œfriendly independentsā€ made up of two former PKR assemblymen charged for corruption ā€“ and a former DAP assemblywoman who reduces the price of democracy to cash and Camry!

In other words, the ā€œstabilityā€ of the Silver State rests solely on three shady characters interviewed by the Sultan and whose status are now even more uncertain since the PR has filed a suit to declare their seats vacant.Alas, the future of the people of Perak is determined by three ā€œindependentsā€ who act independently of the peopleā€™s wishes, and an ā€œunstableā€ Umno assemblyman who says that his hop from Umno to PKR and back to Umno ten days later ā€“ was for the sake of political stability!

The Sultan hands to the people of Perak a ā€œunity governmentā€ which has a dubious majority, achieved by the most divisive means! On top of that it is overwhelmingly dominated by 27 Umno seats. There is only one MCA seat and three independent defectorsā€™ seats. Howā€™s that for an unique representation of multi racial unity?

Pawning the Palace

The nascent PR State Government is numbed momentarily by Najibā€™s nefarious tricks. It eventually bounces back with MB Nizar leading it with nerves of steel. Najib is naive to think that Nizar would wilt in the battle of wills. The MB (who is from PAS) will fight him all the way to the moon and back!

Nizar refuses to resign as MB. He believes he is lawfully the MB until he resigns of his own accord, or is removed by a vote of no-confidence in a formal sitting of the State Assembly. For Nizar and his Exco it is business as usual.

Naiib has made Nizar famous. The DAP backs him fully. The Bar Council praises him for the ā€œmany significant steps forwardā€. The people of all races have faith in him. He may be without an official office, car and house, but Nizar can find a place in the hearts of many Perakians!

Umno goes berserk over Nizarā€™s boldness. Next to buying over defections, Umno is an expert in diversions and distortion of the truth. Behold, the Umno boys are unleashed; protests are held (without police permits); police reports are lodged; and their press is ready and raring to spin.

At their hysterical best, Umno Youth chief Hishammuddin Hussein hits out at the opposition for ā€œbetraying the Rulersā€, and his deputy Khairy Jamaluddin hollers for Nizarā€™s banishment. Surely such histrionics will be duly rewarded at the coming Umno elections.

Umno uses the royalty as pawns in their dirty political game. It is all about political expediency and nothing about being pro-royal. Najib makes use of the palace to push and protect his agenda and vested interests. The people are his least concern.

History reveals that Umno shows deference to the royalty only if it serves its political advantage. As a royal peer and Umno leader, Tengku Razaleigh sees through the hypocrisy of the Umno elite. He hammers them by implicitly suggesting that it is Umno who has harmed the Malay rulers more than anyone else! He recalls the constitutional crisis of 1993.

He describes it as ā€œan ugly confrontation between Umno and the Rulersā€ during which the Umno-dominated government campaigned to remove the immunity of the rulers. He leaves a haunting question for Umno: ā€œWas greater harm done to the sovereignty of the Rulers in 1993 through Parliament or a week ago on the streets of Perak?ā€

He strips bare Umnoā€™s attempt to camouflage public opprobrium over its undemocratic takeover of the state government: ā€œTodayā€™s crisis in Perak is about the legitimacy of the process by which a new state government has been formed in Perak. Itā€™s not about the status of the Rulers.ā€

In March last year, in a clash between Umno and the Sultan of Trengganu (who was also the King) over the appointment of the Stateā€™s MB, hostile Umno members hurled insults at the royalty and even hoisted banners headlined ā€Animal Kingā€.

All of the 22 BN assemblymen protested against the appointment and later boycotted the swearing-in ceremony of the new MB. Umno Trengganu even stripped the new MB of his (Umno) membership after he defied the party leadership and accepted the Sultanā€™s appointment!

Surely this was not treason. Umno protestors were not traitors. Neither were they tainting the name of the Sultan? They canā€™t be ā€œrudeā€. They were just being Umno ā€“ ā€œwith its inconsistent adherence to the rule of law (and) its inconstant respect for the key institutions of our countryā€ (Tengku Razaleigh).

ā€œIt is time for Umno-BN to stop using the Palace. It must now learn how to survive on its own as required by both the constitution and democracy,ā€ is the wise advice that law professor Abdul Aziz Bari has to offer to Umno.

Meanwhile Nazir files a suit to declare illegal the government of the new MB. The Perak State Legislative Assembly Speaker suspends the newly appointed MB and his six Exco members.

Pak Lah tells the new MB to ignore the suspension and to lodge a police report against the Speaker. Dr M mocks at the ignorance of the PM. The country heaves a sigh of relief that he would be retiring soon

As for Anwar Ibrahim and the PR, they have a lot of soul searching to do. A democracy dependent on defections is a very defective process waiting to disintegrate. Crossover is not the answer for a nation at a crossroads. What has happened in Perak is a classic case in point.

Hopping does not bring hope. With money politics so rife, there is no guarantee that the hopper may not one day hop back into his/her original ā€œholeā€. The Umno assemblyman who double hopped in a space of 10 days is a perfect example.

The PR is a ā€œpeopleā€™s partyā€. The peopleā€™s wants, wishes and will must come first. The ā€œtsunamiā€ of March 2008 was a ā€œpeopleā€™s victoryā€. The very essence and reason for PRā€™s existence is ā€“ the people.

The only way for Perak to move forward is to go back to the people!

(The above article was written for the latest issue of Aliran Monthly. Subsequent to the above were significant events such as the raw courage of the MB, Speaker and PR Aduns holding the Perak State Assembly under a raintree, and scandalous events such as the jaundiced judgments of a junior judge (judicial commissioner) which made the judiciary the butt of everyoneā€™s jokes.)

Martin Jalleh (16 March 2008)
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