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| Sivakumar: No way BN can call a sitting |
| Politics & Government 2009 | |||
| Written by Surin Murugiah | |||
| Tuesday, 12 May 2009 13:52 | |||
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He said any emergency motion must go through the Speaker, who will determine the date and time for the motion to be tabled in the House. "As the legitimate Speaker, I can allow or reject any motion," he said when asked if he would thwart any attempts by BN to unseat Nizar who was declared the legitimate Perak MB by the Kuala Lumpur High Court yesterday. Sivakumar also laid claim that he was still the legitimate Speaker as he was not lawfully removed during the May 7 state legislative assembly. "In fact, the assembly did not start at all. I had said the assembly will not start until the 10 people (Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir and others) suspended by the Rights and Privileges Committee went out." "Also, symbolically the mace has to be brought into the assembly and it was only brought in after I was forcibly ejected. So that is another flaw, and it was definitely an unlawfully convened assembly," he told reporters at a press conference here today. He said a proclamation for an assembly sitting must be signed by the Ruler and the menteri besar. "At all material times Zambry was not the legitimate MB, as ruled by court, so you can figure it out," he said. Sivakumar said he had in any event rejected the motions on May 6 as they were proposed by persons already suspended from the assembly, including Zambry. He also took a swipe at Hee Yit Foong whom he said had assumed that she could convene a sub-assembly within the assembly and pass a motion to appoint a new speaker. "There is no way she can say I had lost the confidence of the house. Besides, I had rejected the motion. "How can she justify doing that while I was still in the assembly? If that is deemed legal, that would be a dangerous precedent. Imagine the opposition members in Parliament one day deciding to remove the Speaker in a similar manner," he said. Sivakumar also lambasted the manner in which he was dragged out, asking which provision of the law allows for a Speaker to be thrown out as such. He said the PR government was not struggling for power but wanted the dissolution of the state assembly to diffuse the current political imbroglio in the state. "That would be the best solution after what has happened over the last three months, and it will be the best democratic avenue," he said.
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