The political circus in Perak goes on. It all started well when voters voted and democracy ruled.
The majority was ruling nicely until the minority bought over a member of the majority and became the new majority.
As in any constitution and using normal sense, one should dissolve the government and start new elections, because no voters intended to vote for people that were about to jump ship.
Of course Malaysia does things "my way" as Mahathir would sing. So simple:
- no new election but
- kicking out the mentri besar because his party has no longer majority and
- replacing him with a mentri besar from the new so called majority.
Not to mention the numerous police interventions in and around a house of representatives and of course court and royalty has to intervene as well.
Now Najib has put the hot ball back in the camp of the sultan to solve the problem. Which as far as I understand constitution is not the right way of procedure.
Then there is another statement hearing Najib saying: there are other ways to solve the crisis in Perak than calling for new elections.
So I was wondering if this other way was already historically proven when Malaysia cut out Singapore but forgot to cut out the ‘SI’ from Singapore in the name ‘MalaySIa’.
The good news however is that this time there is no ‘P’ from Perak in Malaysia, so the name of the country can be safeguarded and Perak can be cut of:
if your eye hurts you, rip it out…
