Perak, still.

13.5.2009.

If you go back to my earlier posting you will see that I had suggested that the dissolution of the State Assembly is one way out of the current problem. I wouldn't call it a crisis, because it's not a difficult problem, but a problem made difficult. Once you go to court, you have to plod at the court's notorious laboured pace, or what they euphimistically call "due process". As I have also suggested, this whole thing is caused by Zahid Hamidi. As Deputy State UMNO Liason Chief he wanted to quickly earn credit for a "coup" when the three opposition ADUN turncoats crossed over (at what price merits another story). Zahid's bad timing alerted the PKR people and all elements of surprise that could have helped BN evaporated.

I knew Aziz Rahim, the Judge that decided for Nizar as MB, when he was the LA in Negeri Sembilan. After Negeri he went to Johore and later to AGC, I think, before being eleveted to the Bench. Mary Lim is another former Negeri LA who was recently eleveted to the Bench. 

Aziz has shown true grit I didn't see in him when in Negeri Sembilan. If I were the Perak Sultan, I won't accede to a dissolution, but would advise for convening the Assembly so that the Members decide their own future. Every one of them has been duly elected by the rakyat and should be responsible now for the running of a viable State Government. Calling for fresh elections is not only wasteful monetarily, but absolutely unnecessary because the last one is just slightly more than a year old. To have a new elections now is like trying to swat a mosquito with a canon. A simple show of hands will decide the next administration.

Whatever happens at the Appelate Court will be moot. The millions saved by not having new elections can be better utilised than trying to feed some stupid egos.

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