NEVER RUDE, YET MAHATHIR REBUTS JOHOR RULER POINT-BLANK – IF SULTANS ARE THE ONES TO CHOOSE THE PM & MBs, THEN MALAYSIA WOULD BE AN ‘ABSOLUTE MONARCHY’: INDEED TO PROTECT NATION’S DEMOCRACY, PKR, DAP, AMANAH & BERSATU MUST UNITE BEHIND DR M – AND NOT DO AN ‘AZMIN’ WITH JOHOR SULTAN AS WAS DONE AGAINST AZIZAH IN ‘HIJACKING’ OF S’GOR MB POST

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia would no longer be a democratic country if monarchs were allowed to choose the prime minister and mentri besars, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today.

Responding to Johor ruler Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar’s warning to unnamed parties to stay out of the state’s affairs, Dr Mahathir said Malaysia would have been ruled by an absolute monarchy if that were to take place.

will no longer be a democratic country anymore.

“This is because a party that was rightfully chosen by the people that has the power to appoint MBs have had their rights denied and thus undemocratic. We would be a country with an absolute monarchy,” he said during a press conference in Parliament today.

Sultan Ibrahim’s statement comes after Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had said that the role of appointing the new Johor mentri besar lies with the party that won the election, not with the Sultan of Johor.

This follows the resignation of Datuk Osman Sapian that was announced by Dr Mahathir in Parliament yesterday, adding that his replacement must come from Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM), which he is chairman.

MALAY MAIL