PARIT BUNTAR, 4 MARCH 2009: Menteri Besar Datuk Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir said yesterday’s “emergency session” of the state assembly, held under a tree, was to embarrass the nation in the eyes of the world. “I don’t want to speculate, but we can see that they had prepared for the session, with some carrying posters [...]

DATUK Seri Azalina Othman Said has characterised the attempt of the Speaker to convene an emergency sitting of the Perak state assembly as “uncivilised” and as recourse to the “law of the jungle”. Never in the country’s history, she avers, has a state assembly sitting been convened under a tree. Perhaps she is right. But [...]

PUTRAJAYA, 3 March 2009: Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan said today the Perak legislative assembly secretary acted correctly in declaring that the assembly’s emergency sitting called by the Speaker was illegal. Mohd Sidek said Abdullah Antong Sabri was only discharging his responsibilities. “If a public officer is acting in accordance [...]

IPOH, 3 March 2009: Two Pakatan Rakyat assemblypersons have lodged police reports against the Ipoh OCPD for stopping 28 assemblypersons from entering the Perak Darul Ridzuan Building this morning. The two assemblypersons, Khalil Idham Lim (Titi Serong) and Nga Kor Ming (Pantai Remis), also lodged a similar police report against the state secretary. Both assemblypersons [...]

Corrected on 3 March 2009 at 4.05pm IPOH, 3 March 2009: The Perak state assembly which held an “emergency sitting” under a tree about 100m from the Perak Darul Ridzuan building today approved three motions. The first two motions were to express support for Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin as the Menteri Besar and to [...]

IPOH, 2 March 2009: Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir and his six state executive councillors (excos) today applied to the High Court here to declare the decision by Perak state assembly Speaker V Sivakumar to suspend them as null and void. In the originating summons filed this afternoon, Zambry and the excos [...]