The attorney-general will object against Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman’s judicial review leave application to overturn an alleged decision by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and the government to cancel RM730,300 for the Muar MP’s constituency.
Senior federal counsel Ahmad Hanir Hambaly @ Arwi confirmed that the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) - who is acting for the premier and government - would be raising an objection before the Kuala Lumpur High Court.
Syed Saddiq (above) needs leave from the civil court before he can proceed with the judicial review.
Under the law, the civil court requires leave before hearing the merits of a judicial review, to weed out challenges that are frivolous, vexatious and amount to abuse of court process.
On April 23, the former youth and sports minister and three other applicants filed the judicial review leave bid.
The other three applicants are voters in the Muar constituency.
Failure to channel allocation
The former Muda president also seeks an order of certiorari to quash an alleged decision by the two respondents - the premier (who is not named) and the federal government - to cancel the applicant’s access to the myKHAS system that managed an application for RM2 million allocation for Muar.
According to a copy of his affidavit, Syed Saddiq claimed that the alleged decision came right after Muda decided to pull out of the coalition government on Sept 10 last year.
The former Bersatu youth chief said despite having met Deputy Prime Minister Fadillah Yusof twice up to April to discuss the matter, Anwar and the government allegedly still failed to channel the allocation to his constituency.
Syed Saddiq noted that five opposition parliamentarians who pledged support to Anwar immediately got full allocations to their constituencies.
The cited opposition politicians are Labuan MP Suhaili Abdul Rahman, Jeli MP Zahari Kechik, Gua Musang MP Mohd Azizi Abu Naim, Kuala Kangsar MP Iskandar Dzulkarnain Abdul Khalid, and Tanjong Karang MP Zulkafperi Hanapi.
Law firm Messrs Lim Wei Jiet represented the judicial review applicants. - Mkini
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