of what had been said
on Perak Crisis
and Pakatan Rakyat.
Lim Kit Siang
Lim openly challenged Karpal’s claim that he had the rank and file support in wanting DAP to pull out of Pakatan Rakyat over the thorny issues of party hopping and hudud. [Kit Siang
Hee, who is deputy state assembly speaker, had said the state exco should have a Chinese woman and that Ngeh and Nga, who are both lawyers, were best suited for the posts of speaker and deputy speaker respectively. [internal conflicts]
Fong
Three-term Fong, dupped cili padi because of her fiery style, dropped a bombshell on the party before the general election last year with her announcement that she was not going to defend her Batu Gajah seat, but changed her mind after much persuasion from the party top leadership. She told the daily that Perak DAP's internal problems were not taken seriously before the March 8 elections, and neither were they resolved after the elections, allowing members' discontent against party leaders to brew. [internal conflicts]
Najib
Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak defended Barisan Nasional's power grab, saying it was only using tactics favoured by Mr Anwar, who last year attempted to seize control of parliament with the help of defectors. [call to quit]
Muhyiddin
Umno vice-president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said Pakatan Rakyat’s legal advisers should tell Nizar to respect the Sultan’s decision. Muhyiddin, who is International Trade and Industry Minister, said Pakatan’s legal advisers should not allow Perak to have two mentris besar as it would only cause confusion and hinder administration of the state. [It’s treason]
Shafie AfdalUmno supreme council member Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal said the institution of royalty should not be tarnished.“We must not let our political ideologies influence us to go against the law and challenge the position of the Sultan,” he told reporters after attending the Gong Xi Muhibbah celebration at Chin Woo Stadium in Kuala Lumpur. [[It’s treason]]
Rafidah Aziz
Wanita Umno chief Tan Sri Rafizah Aziz called on the authorities in Perak to take action against Nizar and his executive councillors for continuously defying orders of the Sultan. [It’s treason]
Mustapa Mohamed
The crisis that is brewing in Pakatan Rakyat (PR) in the aftermath of the Perak political turmoil shows that the opposition pact is fragile, Umno Supreme Council member Datuk Mustapa Mohamed said. []
Hishamuddin
Umno Youth chief Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said Karpal Singh's remarks were in itself an admission that there were problems in the opposition pact.
Hamid Albar
Umno Supreme Council member, Datuk Syed Hamid Albar, described the problems in PR as internal matters. The home minister said, however, that it was not easy to form a true pact.
Khoo Kay Peng
'The fall of Perak shows there are a lot of pressing issues within Pakatan Rakyat to be addressed.' Another political analyst, Mr Khoo Kay Peng, said Mr Anwar's position would remain intact as he had successfully brought together three opposition parties with widely differing ideologies. [Khoo]
Nik Aziz
Pas spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat will seek clarification from Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on the statement by DAP national chairman Karpal Singh that Anwar was not fit to lead the Pakatan Rakyat (PR). [Nik Aziz]
Mingguan Malaysia
Nonetheless, Mingguan Malaysia, a Malay language newspaper owned by UMNO, said in an editorial that "never in the history of the country had any Malay so openly defied and humiliated a Malay ruler like Nizar. If this was Thailand or any Arab country, anyone who humiliated the royalty would have faced immediate punishment including from the public." [Defy Sultan]
Mukhriz
Muhkriz said Pas and Umno had more things in common than differences. “Deep in our hearts we all want unity among the Malays. Perhaps one way to do that is by getting Pas to join Umno,” he said. Muhkriz said Anwar has also failed as a leader as he has not been able to strengthen the ties between the parties in the coalition. [join Umno]
Khairy
Deputy Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin called for Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin to be stripped of his citizenship as he led protests by the Barisan Nasional (BN) faithful here today as part a campaign to label the Pas man a traitor. [stripped of citizenship]
Ali Rustam
Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam, who is also the Belia 4B president, said he supported the legal action against Karpal and calls to detain him under the Internal Security Act or to have his citizenship revoked for treason and insulting the Sultan of Perak. [drama spills over to Malacca]
Lim Guan Eng
It’s still not too late for Jelapang state assemblywoman Hee Yit Foong, who quit the DAP to become an independent and threw her support behind the Barisan Nasional (BN), to reconsider her decision, Penang chief minister and DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said. [Guan Eng]
Karpal Singh
He blamed Anwar for the disarray in Pakatan which was caused by the PKR leader's continuous rhetoric of forming government with the aid of defectors from Barisan Nasional. [Karpal]
Lim Guan Eng
"In this regard the DAP supports ... Anwar Ibrahim as the parliamentary opposition leader and will remain so as no single leader has ever questioned this during internal meetings whether at the highest levels or otherwise," DAP Secretary General Lim Guan Eng said in a statement. [as leader
Anwar Ibrahim
Anwar further explained that Karpal’s outburst was due to two points of disagreement, the first being the Bukit Gelugor MP’s wish to take legal action against the Sultan and the other being the morality of defections. [his message ]
Ngeh Koo Ham
Ngeh Koo Ham has requested Pas to consider Datuk Nizar Jamaluddin as the candidate for the Bukit Gantang parliamentary by-election as a symbolic message that the people of Perak still wants him to lead them. [ Bukit Gantang]
Harusani Zakaria
Perak Mufti Datuk Seri Harusani Zakaria has urged the people to respect the decision made by the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah.He said as ruler of the state, the Sultan has the power to appoint or strip Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin of his mentri besar post. [Perak Mufti]
Zahrain Mohamed Hashim
Its chairman Datuk Zahrain Mohamed Hashim reminded Karpal Singh that if not for Anwar, the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition would not exist today. "The remarks by Karpal Singh about Anwar are baseless," he told Bernama when contacted here. [Remarks About Anwar
Lim Kit Siang
DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang has expressed shock and hurt by DAP National Chairman Karpal Singh’s outburst against the DAP leadership and Pakatan Rakyat leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim but fell short of addressing the crux of the issues antagonising the MP for Jelutong. [grievances ]
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