Well, then tell the Sultan to fook off

There were also occasions when the Sultan asked for the sitting Menteri Besar to be removed and replaced because the Menteri Besar had courted His Highness’s displeasure. And eventually, although not immediately, the Menteri Besar was removed and replaced and in some cases the sacked Menteri Besar was declared persona non grata and had to leave the state.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Constitutional law expert Dr Abdul Aziz Bari, and most likely DAP’s candidate for the next Selangor Menteri Besar in the event DAP wins 20-25 seats in the Selangor State Assembly in the next general election said, “Raja Petra’s view an outdated one going back to 1948.” You can read that article HERE.

Aziz is probably worried that if DAP does win 20-25 out of the 56 seats in the Selangor State Assembly — thereby giving them the largest minority as opposed to, say, just 15 for PKR, 10 for Umno, and less than 10 combined for PAS and PAN — His Highness the Sultan may not consent to him becoming the Selangor Menteri Besar.

Hence this is a sort of pre-emptive strike in anticipation of a looming ‘Constitutional Crisis’ that may erupt in Selangor two-and-a-half years or so from now. Aziz is trying to condition the public that the Sultan does not have the prerogative and cannot use his discretion in the appointment of the Menteri Besar and, in fact, should ‘take advice’ from the political party that won the most number of seats.

If this is true then why did PKR and DAP reluctantly accept Azmin Ali as Menteri Besar? PKR and DAP could not accept Azmin, who was not their candidate for Menteri Besar. Their sole choice was Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail. In fact, Azmin was not even PAS’s candidate. He was the choice of the PAS President, Abdul Hadi Awang.

And that was why PKR and DAP whacked Hadi. Take note, they did not whack PAS, they whacked Hadi and called him all sorts of names. And some in PAS also went against Hadi. And that is why, today, we have PAN, the PAS breakaway party. This is because they did not agree with what Hadi did in proposing Azmin for Menteri Besar.

Of course, they used the Kelantan Hudud issue as the excuse to whack Hadi. But that is just a Red Herring. Hudud was passed by the Kelantan State Assembly more than twenty years ago and no one said anything until now. And the only reason they are opposing it now is to give them an excuse to whack Hadi.

In fact, if you want to whack someone for Hudud being passed by the Kelantan State Assembly more than twenty years ago then they should whack the late Tok Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat. It was Nik Aziz who proposed Hudud in Kelantan many years before Hadi became the Terengganu Menteri Besar in 1999.

In short, the Hudud ‘mess’ in Kelantan is the doing of Nik Aziz. Yet no one from PKR and DAP, or even PAS, dares condemn Nik Aziz. Why? Is it because they know that if they call Nik Aziz a bastard and a mother-fooker then they are going to suffer a serious backlash from the Malays? So they blame Hadi for what Nik Aziz did.

What a bunch of pathetic losers!

Anyway, Selangor is not the only state where the Sultan decided who should become Menteri Besar. Many other states since 1957 saw the same thing happen. And some states saw this happening more than once — at least twice or thrice. Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang, Johor, Perlis, Perak, etc., all saw the Sultan step in to decide who should become the Menteri Besar.

There were also occasions when the Sultan asked for the sitting Menteri Besar to be removed and replaced because the Menteri Besar had courted His Highness’s displeasure. And eventually, although not immediately, the Menteri Besar was removed and replaced and in some cases the sacked Menteri Besar was declared persona non grata and had to leave the state.

In fact, the Sultans do not just decide who becomes the Menteri Besar. His Highness can decide who becomes (or gets removed) as the State Secretary, State Financial Officer, head of the Religious Department, and any government agency, department or GLC that comes under state control.

The Sultan may not have the power to interfere in the appointment or sacking of the heads of the federal agencies. But His Highness can always whisper to the Prime Minister regarding his displeasure regarding certain people, say like the head of the Education Department, and the Prime Minister will quietly replace that chap just to please the Sultan.

If the Sultan is a mere puppet and has no powers whatsoever, why can’t DAP and PKR insist that the Allah word and about two dozen other ‘Islamic’ words that non-Muslims are banned from using be unbanned?

It was the late Sultan of Selangor who signed the law that forbids non-Muslims from using Allah and two dozen or so other words. DAP is against this. Many in PKR are also against this. Even some in PAS who are now in PAN are also against this.

They had (and still have) the majority in the 56-member Selangor State Assembly. Why did they not just repeal that law in the Selangor State Assembly and allow non-Muslims to use the Allah word and more than two dozen or so other banned words?

Well, that is because the Sultan is head of religion in the state according to that ‘outdated’ 1948 Federation of Malaya agreement and the Sultan does have power to decide who becomes the Menteri Besar as well, just like what has been happening, and sometimes more than once, in many other states as well.

Anyway, let us put this to a test. DAP should contest 25 seats in Selangor in the next general election and let UMNO, PAS, PKR and PAN fight it out in three-corner fights in the balance 31 seats. I am sure DAP can demolish MCA, MIC and Gerakan and win the entire 25 seats they contest. That will mean DAP will be the largest minority. Then DAP can propose Aziz Bari as their Menteri Besar and let us see whether His Highness will be made to eat humble pie and consent to a DAP man for Menteri Besar.