Perak Pakatan may boycott May 7 assembly

(The Star) – The Perak Pakatan Rakyat is contemplating boycotting the May 7 state assembly sitting as a form of protest.

State DAP secretary Nga Kor Ming pointed out that the court case to decide who is the legitimate mentri besar was still pending at the Kuala Lumpur High Court.

The case, between Pakatan’s Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin and Barisan Nasional’s Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir, has been fixed for May 5 and 6.

“Pakatan will have a meeting to decide on the matter (on whether to boycott the sitting) later,” he told a press conference here Monday.

Urging the Barisan state government to postpone the sitting pending the disposal of the case, Nga noted that it would be disrespectful to the judiciary if the government insisted on having the sitting.

To a question, Nga — who was a former executive council (exco) member in the Pakatan administration — said Pakatan assemblymen had yet to receive the agenda for the sitting.

“Under normal circumstances, the agenda should be distributed to us two weeks before the sitting,” he said, adding that he had received information that Barisan would file a motion to remove Assembly Speaker V. Sivakumar.

Nga noted that Barisan’s decision to call for a state assembly on May 7 was against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s own statement on March 1 that the sitting should not be held pending court’s decision on the status of the state government.

“The Prime Minister must explain his stand now as it was clear that his subordinate is going against it,” he said.