Khalid’s corporate move to de-register PKR
Another Brick in the Wall
At yesterday’s open house, the Selangor leadership crisis was the conversation of the evening.
The latest move by Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s boneka, Datin Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to get 30 statutory declaration of support placed puzzle everyone as to why Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim wants to stay around.
The answer is he wants to take it to the Assembly to do a vote of no confidence on him. All one need to do is to read back history on the Ming Court incident in 1984. It was an attempt to topple Sarawak’s then Chief Minister, Pehin Sri Taib Mahmud.
All had gathered at Ming Court and as one old journalist who witnessed it described, “We have the numbers!” to requote Anwar’s words used again by Wan Azizah. But, when it was near the time to do a vote of no confidence, there was no motion to do so.
Frankly, any “surat sumpah” used by Pakatan Rakyat politicians in their game of perception is as good as “sampah“. Remember how the late PI Bala flip flop on his Statutory Declaration and Deepak too on his statements.
Another answer lies in Khalid’s own words to want to cleanse his name.
And, one interesting part, which not many players, from both side of the fight – in PKR and Pakatan Rakyat (no blaming UMNO cause they don’t bother) – did not realise is that Khalid is not playing politics but his approach is typical in a corporate board room tussle.
Raja Petra’s opening remark in his posting, “It’s not about Khalid Ibrahim any more” said it right:
The debate is still raging as to whether Khalid Ibrahim is still legally (or morally) the Menteri Besar of Selangor.
Some same legally ‘yes’ but morally ‘no’. Some say both legally and morally ‘no’. Some say even if he no longer commands the majority in the Selangor state assembly he must be legally or constitutionally removed. And that would be through a vote of no confidence against him in the Selangor state assembly.
Some even quote the Perak Crisis of five years ago as the precedence in which to remove Khalid, while at the same time saying that the way Nizar Jamaluddin, the Perak Menteri Besar, and Pakatan Rakyat, were removed is wrong, even if the court upheld HRH the Sultan of Perak’s decision. After all, say these critics, the court will do what it is told (by the Barisan Nasional government, that is). Hence we cannot trust the court.
This means what happened in Perak is wrong but doing in Selangor what they did in Perak is right.
Different lawyers and legal/constitutional experts have different opinions. That is how lawyers make money — by arguing these differences of opinions in court. If the law is clear then no need to go to court. Only when it is ambiguous and is not clear do we need to go to court and make lawyers rich.
In this case, the avenue to resolve dispute is with the state assembly and istana.
Unfortunately, both the PKR and DAP politicians including Anwar’s supporters in PAS have been disrespectful of his royal highness that they can only get a by-the-book treatment from the Sultan.
