Perak crisis goes to apex court despite no written judgment
Pakatan Rakyat's inevitable appeal to the Federal Court will go ahead next Monday despite the appeals court failure to provide the written judgment overturning a High Court ruling that Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin is the lawful Perak mentri besar.
Nizar said today he has instructed his lawyers to file the appeal and frame constitutional questions to the apex court despite not being able to go through the Court of Appeal's grounds of judgment.
However, Perak PKR deputy chief Chang Lih Kang told The Malaysian Insider that they could still amend the appeal if they had reason to do so later.
Perak DAP deputy chief M. Kulasegaran also questioned why the Court of Appeal was taking so long when it had promised to produce the judgment within a week of declaring Datuk Seri Zambry Abd Kadir as mentri besar on May 22.
Pakatan Rakyat has been sceptical of the Court of Appeal as it has been swift to grant Zambry a stay of the High Court ruling less than 24 hours after judge Datuk Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahim had declared Nizar to be the MB at all times despite the Feb 5 takeover bid by Barisan Nasional.
It will be the final round of legal proceedings in a saga that observers realise would only end at the apex court as whichever party that lost out prior to this would definitely bring the issue to a higher court.
Both Barisan Nasional chairman Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Zambry have said that they would wait for the legal process to be over before deciding on the next move amid speculation that it would either call an assembly sitting to show it had a majority or bow to pressure to call fresh polls in Perak.
Meanwhile, Pakatan Rakyat leaders are stepping up their pressure on the police who they claim have been acting in the interest of Barisan Nasional after numerous arrests since the political impasse began.
They will lodge reports against police action which includes physical harm and also to the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) to ask for a inquiry into the role of the police in the ongoing Perak crisis.
They are also ready to post bail amounting to RM138,000 for the 69 individuals including several elected representatives arrested on May 7 when the chaotic emergency sitting to remove V. Sivakumar as speaker had occurred.
