Tommy Thomas Tok Kok

 

What if no one has the majority? What if Muhyiddin has 91 MPs, Anwar Ibrahim has 89 MPs, Hishammuddin Tun Hussein has 35 MPs, and Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has five MPs? What then? Will the Agong reappoint Muhyiddin as the Prime Minister or will Parliament be dissolved to make way for GE15 in September 2021?

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Who is Tommy Thomas trying to fool? What “political impasse”? If what we are seeing today is a political impasse, then Malaysia has been in a political impasse for 38 years since 1983. In fact, Malaysia could even be said to be in a political impasse for 52 years since 1969. Remember what happened in May 1969 due to that “political impasse”?

(Political impasse: a political situation in which no progress is possible, especially because of disagreement or a deadlock).

And how the fook would a vote-of-no-confidence solve this so-called “political impasse”?

Okay, let’s say they force the Parliament Speaker to allow a motion of no confidence to be tabled in Parliament (and not sure yet the Speaker will agree to that since they say they want Parliament to sit to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic and the economy and a vote of no confidence has nothing to do with either).

How do they know they can get 113 or 115 MPs to support that motion of no confidence?

If Anwar Ibrahim can get 113 or 115 MPs to support his move to oust Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, he would have marched to Istana Negara to hand in his 113-115 statutory declarations ten months ago in September 2020.

Anwar mana ada majoriti? Tembak je! Tak habis-habis main perception game.

Anwar cannot win his vote of no confidence without Umno. And only three or four Umno MPs support him. And to get Umno’s support he has to promise them the post of Deputy Prime Minister. Do you think DAP will agree to that? If Umno is given the DPM’s post, DAP will not support the vote of no confidence.

And if Umno goes to bed with DAP, in the next general election the Malay voters will punish them. Umno would be wiped out in GE15. The 22 months of a DAP-led government has still not been forgotten. The Malays can never accept that again. They might as well have let Chin Peng take over in 1960.

“The Yang di-Pertuan Agong can say to the prime minister that ‘if you are defeated, then you have to resign and I will form the new government on my judgement who have the majority’,” said Tommy Thomas.

Right! “If you are defeated.” Has Muhyiddin been defeated? Why after ten months they still cannot oust him? So much talk about “formidable numbers” but until today they still cannot oust Muhyiddin.

“I will form the new government on my judgement who have the majority,” Tommy Thomas said Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong will say.

What if no one has the majority? What if Muhyiddin has 91 MPs, Anwar Ibrahim has 89 MPs, Hishammuddin Tun Hussein has 35 MPs, and Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has five MPs? What then? Will the Agong reappoint Muhyiddin as the Prime Minister or will Parliament be dissolved to make way for GE15 in September 2021?

They keep talking about interim Prime Minister of a caretaker government. A caretaker government exists only once Parliament is dissolved and while waiting for the general election to be held. But Parliament does not sit and laws cannot be passed or new policies made. In short, it is a government with no teeth. In fact, it does not even have a bark, let alone teeth.

Tommy Thomas tak tahu ke semua ini? Or is Tommy Thomas trying to take Malaysians for a ride? Do I need to teach someone who used to be Pakatan Harapan’s Attorney-General how it works? Cukuplah nak bohong rakyat Malaysia!

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Ex-AG Thomas: Agong can call for confidence vote to solve political impasse

(Malaysiakini) – The country’s current political impasse, which sees the Perikatan Nasional government’s legitimacy in doubt, can be solved by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, according to former attorney-general Tommy Thomas.

Given that the government has agreed to reopen the Parliament by Aug 1, he said the king can tell Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to go through a motion of confidence in the Dewan Rakyat.

“There is one solution to the impasse.

“Now we know Parliament is sitting by Aug 1… (what it takes now) is for his majesty to summon the prime minister and tell him ‘look, your political legitimacy is an issue, nobody is satisfied with your 112 (majority), so within a week or three days of the Parliament sitting you must have a motion of confidence’,” Thomas said.

The lawyer was speaking in a webinar titled “Emergency, Democracy and The Rule of Law” organised by Sekhar Institute this morning. Other panelists are former Dewan Rakyat speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia, PKR vice-president Shamsuliskandar Mohd Akin, DAP Youth chief Howard Lee, and actor Afdlin Shauki.

According to Thomas, what is left next is for the Dewan Rakyat speaker to call for the motion to be debated by MPs.

He said there must be a whole day dedicated to allowing for a debate on the motion, and it must be televised as well, after which a vote is taken among MPs.

“The Yang di-Pertuan Agong can say to the prime minister that ‘if you are defeated, then you have to resign and I will form the new government on my judgement who have the majority’,” he said.

Yesterday, the government announced that Parliament will be reopened before the end of the emergency this Aug 1.

De facto law minister Takiyuddin Hassan in a statement had said that Muhyiddin has decided to call for a Parliament sitting as soon as possible, and a date will be finalised in the next cabinet meeting on July 7.

Parliament has been suspended since Jan 11, when the emergency was proclaimed.