Nathaniel Tan | Kajang lessons 3: Target the law, not the palace
Yesterday’s second instalment of this retrospective of the ‘Kajang Move’ used the lens of consistency and proper procedure to examine the Kajang Move up to the point where Abdul Khalid Ibrahim was sacked from PKR.
Today’s final instalment employs the same lens and continues from that point, focusing on the very controversial subject of constitutional monarchy.
Once PAS as a party withdrew its support for Khalid, the formal conditions for his removal (according to Khalid’s view of proper procedure) had finally been met.
He tendered his resignation to the Sultan, thus removing himself from being any factor at all from that point onwards.
After this point, the primary conflict seemed to be about whether the palace should accept Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as menteri besar – a question that continues to reverberate. How do questions of consistency and proper procedure apply here?
I completely agree that in a democratic, constitutional monarchy, the people (technically speaking, only their representatives in a state assembly or in Parliament, unfortunately) should have the most say as to who their chief executive is.
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