Kit Siang: caretaker when Parliament dissolved

In 2008, a month before the general election, Lim Kit Siang filed suit for the High Court to declare a caretaker government … during the dissolution of Parliament until the swearing-in of the new Cabinet after the general election.

Now in 2013, lawyer Kit Siang accepts that Parliament will be automatically dissolved on April 28 but, just like a lawyer, he twists around to argue that morally Najib Razak should behave like a caretaker government from March 8.

Why should Najib do so? He has no constitutional reason to do so.

The DAP and Pakatan Rakyat, crowing with their partial 2008 victory, want to rub Barisan Nasional’s noses in the March 8 date for their own psychological warfare. But since when does any prime minister of any country forego his constitutional privileges in order to dance to the tune of an opposition politician?

All governments — including the five states under Pakatan administration — have the right under the constitution to decide when to dissolve the legislatures. The Pakatan states could on their own call for early state elections. Why don’t they just go ahead and do so instead of shouting at Najib?

Bullshit smells the same from any side