PR cadang bekas hakim sebagai speaker...

Pakatan Rakyat Namakan Mantan Hakim Mahkamah Persekutuan Sebagai Yang di-Pertua Dewan Rakyat

1. Pakatan Rakyat (PR) sebulat suara bersetuju menamakan mantan Hakim Mahkamah Persekutuan Dato' Haji Abdul Kadir bin Sulaiman sebagai Yang di-Pertua Dewan Rakyat bagi Parlimen Ketiga Belas.

2. Penamaan Dato' Abdul Kadir sebagai Yang di-Pertua telah dikemukakan atas nama Ahli Parlimen Bandar Tun Razak merangkap Menteri Besar Negeri Selangor sebagai mewakili pendirian PR pada 10 Jun 2013.

3. Satu pemberitahu bersurat mengenai penamaan itu telah dikemukakan kepada Setiausaha Dewan Rakyat mengikut kehendak Peraturan-peraturan Majlis Mesyuarat Dewan Rakyat 4(1).

4. PR bertegas bahawa Yang di-Pertua Dewan Rakyat mesti dilantik dari kalangan seorang yang bebas, berkecuali tanpa parti, berwibawa dan berkelayakan untuk berkhidmat.

5. Dato' Abdul Kadir memenuhi semua kriteria yg selayaknya sebagai Yang di-Pertua. Beliau telah menabur bakti kepada negara selama lebih 50 tahun dalam pelbagai Jabatan, Kementerian, Negeri, Suruhanjaya, Kehakiman dan Majlis DiRaja Negeri.

6. Beliau bersara sebagai Hakim Mahkamah Persekutuan pada 28 Mac 2006. Kemudiannya dilantik menjadi anggota Suruhanjaya Siasatan DiRaja (RCI) mengenai kematian Teoh Beng Hock, anggota Jawatankuasa Eksekutif Transformasi SPRM dan Ahli Majlis Penasihat Pemangku Raja Terengganu.

7. PR berkeyakinan penuh bahawa pemilihan Dato' Abdul Kadir Sulaiman sebagai Yang di-Pertua akan meningkatkan lagi penghormatan rakyat terhadap institusi Parlimen dan melonjakkan kewibawaannya di persada antarabangsa.

ANWAR IBRAHIM
Ahli Parlimen Permatang Pauh

PKR tidak boikot majlis angkat sumpah anggota Parlimen...

PKR tidak akan memboikot majlis angkat sumpah anggota Dewan Rakyat sepertimana yang dihebohkan oleh media sebelum ini.

Malah, Ketua Umum PKR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim turut memberitahu dalam mesyuarat Biro Politik PKR, beliau tidak pernah menyebut untuk boikot majlis angkat sumpah di Parlimen pada 24 Jun ini.

"Anwar menjelaskan bahawa beliau tidak pernah menyebut untuk memboikot majlis angkat sumpah, apa yang diperkatakan sebelum ini hanya diputar belit oleh media semata-mata.

"PKR memutuskan tidak ada boikot akan dilakukan pada majlis 24 Jun nanti," jelas sumber PKR yang menyertai mesyuarat Biro Politik PKR malam ini kepada Harakahdaily.

Beliau menjelaskan majlis angkat sumpah akan berjalan seperti biasa dan Ahli Parlimen PKR akan hadir pada majlis tersebut.

Sebelum itu, DAP melalui Ahli Parlimen Kepong, Dr Tan Seng Giaw memberitahu tidak ada sebab Ahli Parlimen DAP yang telah memenangi Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 lalu memboikot majlis angkat sumpah dan sesi Dewan Rakyat akan datang.

Nada yang sama turut dinyatakan oleh Ahli Parlimen Pasir Mas, Nik Mohamad Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz yang berkata, PAS telah bermesyuarat dan membuat ketetapan akan menghadiri majlis angkat sumpah di Parlimen.

Pakatan Rakyat akan memastikan majlis tersebut akan berjalan dengan lancar dan akan melaksanakan bertanggungjawab yang telah diberikan oleh rakyat pada sesi persidangan parlimen akan datang.

Sebelum ini, memboikot majlis ini hanya cadangan anggota Parlimen PKR secara individu sahaja.-harakahdaily

 

Pakatan proposes former judge as speaker...

Pakatan Rakyat have unanimously nominated former Federal Court judge Abdul Kadir Sulaiman as its candidate for speaker in the Dewan Rakyat.

Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, said in a statement that Abdul Kadir's nomination was forwarded through Bandar Tun Razak MP and Selangor menteri besar, Khalid Ibrahim, on June 10.

"The written notice of the nomination has been submitted to the secretary of the Dewan Rakyat in accordance with Dewan Rakyat Standing orders 4(1). Pakatan insist that the speaker must be appointed from someone who is independent, non-partisan and is qualified to serve," he said.

"Abdul Kadir fulfills all the criteria to be the speaker as he has contributed to the country for more than 50 years in various departments, ministries, states, the Judicial Appointment Commission and the royal household," continued Anwar.

Abdul Kadir, 73, was also one of the panel members in the royal commission of inquiry into the death of Teoh Beng Hock who died at the premises of the Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission office.

He retired as a Federal Court judge on March 28, 2006 and was appointed to the executive committee to transform the MACC. 

He is also a member of the council of advisors to the Terengganu Royal Household.

"Pakatan is confident that Abdul Kadir's selection as speaker will uplift the respect of the people to Parliament as well as boost its credibility internationally," added the Permatang Pauh MP added.

However The Star daily reported today that Pandikar Amin Mulia (left) is expected to retain his post as speaker for Dewan Rakyat. 
Pandikar has been holding the post since 2008, when he replaced Ramli Ngah Talib.

It also named Ramli, former Senate speaker Abdul Hamid Pawanteh and former Information, Communications and Culture Minister Rais Yatim, as other possible choices.- malaysiakini

DAP challenges Tengku Adnan's credibility...

DAP secretary-general and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has questioned the appointment of Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's cabinet, since Tengku Adnan has been involved in the "Lingam-gate" affair.

As a Malaysian cabinet minister, Lim said in a statement today, Tengku Adnan must not only be clean but also be seen to be clean.

"Tengku Adnan (left) was found by the Royal Commission of Inquiry to have conspired with lawyer VK Lingam and tycoon Vincent Tan in subverting the Federal Constitution by fixing the appointment of judges, so he must come clean on his role in conspiring with Lingam," Lim said.

"It is clear that despite all Najib may claim, Malaysia cannot move on from the corruption and abuses of power of the Dr Mahathir Mohamad era while men such as Tengku Adnan, who have been implicated in some of the worst abuses of that time, are appointed to high ministerial positions by Najib."

In the Lingam-gate affair that was video recorded and went viral on the Internet, the senior lawyer is heard boasting to a businessman that he could influence the appointment of judges.

RCI called for action to be taken

A five-member Royal Commission of Inquiry chaired by former Chief Judge of Malaya Haidar Mohd Noor, which investigated the matter, recommended that action be taken against Lingam, Tan, Tengku Adnan, Mahathir and former chief justices Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim and Eusoff Chin.

The RCI recommended that Lingam and his co-conspirators be investigated by the attorney-general under the Penal Code, the Sedition Act 1948, the Legal Profession Act 1976 and the Official Secrets Act 1972. However, no such investigation has been carried out until today.

Five of them, including Tengku Adnan, tried to contest the finding of the RCI through a judicial review but the High Court rejected their application. Lingam (right) then appealed the matter, right up to the Federal Court.

The Federal Court unanimously threw out Lingam's application on Sept 13, 2011, ruling that a court of lawcannot review the findings of the RCI into the infamous video.

Lim said the RCI found Tengku Adnan, as a deputy minister, and later as a minister in the Prime Minister's Department, appeared to be the "fixer" in the Prime Minister's Department in 2000, passing secret information relating to the appointment of judges to Lingam, in an apparent breach of the Official Secrets Act 1972.

"The RCI also found that Tengku Adnan's denial in his sworn testimony was "too economical with the truth to be believed". It held that Tengku Adnan had "not in the least degree" succeeded in disassociating himself from the video clip, in which his name was mentioned 11 times," Lim said.

The fact that Tengku Adnan had, as a deputy minister and minister, sworn a solemn oath to "protect, preserve and defend" the federal constitution, but got involved in a conspiracy to destroy the credibility of the institution of justice in Malaysia, raised questions on his credibility and integrity, he added.-malaysiakkini

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