Ali Rustam questions Opposition on Eli Wong

(The Star) – MALACCA: It may be the Malacca state assembly session but the issue of Selangor exco member Elizabeth Wong’s revealing photographs cropped up during debate.

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam questioned the Opposition’s integrity on the matter, which caused the five Opposition assembly to protest vehemently.

“Is it right for an assemblywoman to be sleeping around with her Malay boyfriend?” he asked, alleging that PAS seemed to have compromised their religious values on this matter.

Wong had tendered her resignation as Bukit Lanjan assemblyman when the photographs surfaced in the media but was directed back to work by Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim.

In her response, Betty Chew (DAP – Kota Laksamana) argued that the two issues were separate and that the matter had involved a different political party.

Mohd Ali then asked Chew whether she had viewed the purported video of Wong, in which she replied she had not.

He repeated the question to Chew several times, who then retorted:

“Why are you so fascinated by Elizabeth Wong and nudity that you have to raise it several times?”

Opposition leader Goh Leong San later came to her defence, accusing Mohd Ali of sexually harassing Chew with the questions as Speaker Datuk Othman Muhamad tried to defuse the tension by quipping that “he had seen the video”.

This then caused Goh to question him if he had indeed done so, to which he clarified that he had only “seen a video”.