Stop demanding a second Deputy Speaker post, Selangor PAS tells DAP

(Malay Mail Online) – DAP should stop demanding a second Selangor Deputy Speaker post as the current Deputy Speaker is more than capable of carrying out his duties, PAS said today.

Selangor PAS deputy commission Sallehen Mukhyi said the money which would spent on  a second Deputy Speaker would be better used for the development of Selangor and its people.

“Enough with what we have, we only need a Deputy Speaker during the state assembly, that is effective enough we do not need another one,” he told reporters at the state assembly.

“We want to service the people, not go after positions.

“If we entertain this, people will think we are hungry for positions,” the Sabak assemblyman added.

Selangor DAP wants a second Deputy Speaker post be given to the party, after Selangor mentri besar Azmin Ali and Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s promise of an extra Selangor state executive council post to DAP did not materialise.

“We (DAP) are asking for it,” Selangor DAP chief Tony Pua told Malay Mail Online when contacted yesterday.

PAS’s Bangi assemblyman Dr Shafie Ngah was appointed as state Deputy Speaker at the start of the Selangor legislative assembly last week.

DAP’s Subang Jaya state lawmaker, Hannah Yeoh, is currently the Selangor Speaker.

In September, Malay Mail Online reported that MB Azmin may appoint another Deputy Speaker in the Selangor legislative assembly to end the prolonged state leadership crisis and to placate parties which supported his appointment as state mentri besar.

“Azmin Ali may need to appease PAS. Our compromise is that he will appoint two deputy speakers,” a Pakatan Rakyat (PR) source told Malay Mail Online back then.

“He promised to announce the second Deputy Speaker at a later stage,” the source had added then.

Azmin was named Selangor MB following the acrimonious events that led to his predecessor, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim stepping down.