Malaysiakini
May 27, 11
Barisan Nasional (BN) is not worried over the possibility of facing a separate election should the Pakatan-held states refuse to dissolve their state assemblies, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak said.
“We cannot determine what they can do; we can only determine what we can do.
“So, I’m not worried about what they will do because I cannot control their actions. I will only give serious consideration to things that I can do,” he told a media conference after chairing the Umno supreme council meeting at the party’s headquarters today.
Najib said that under the federal constitution, state governments could advise the Sultan or the Yang Dipertua Negeri whether or not to dissolve their state assemblies.
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng had previously said that states under the opposition pact would not dissolve their state assemblies if the federal government was to dissolve parliament this year.
– Bernama
#1 by Winston on Saturday, 28 May 2011 - 8:36 am
We don’t give a damn BN is worried or not!
All we want is to have a credible
government in place.
#2 by dagen on Saturday, 28 May 2011 - 10:00 am
///“So, I’m not worried about what they will do because I cannot control their actions. I will only give serious consideration to things that I can do,” ///
… like gerrymandering, like votes buying, like you help me I help you, like promising more projects here and there and funds for this and that, like new roads bridges and what not, like ohhh the list goes on.
See jib forgot to give examples or instances of “things that I can do.” So here I supply what he left out, inadvertantly, I am sure.
#3 by limkamput on Saturday, 28 May 2011 - 12:31 pm
When one says he is not worried, in actuality he is worried. PR, once in power, please amend the constitution to have fixed election dates for Federal and State governments like in the US. Too much of leeway given to incumbents, and this is not good for sustainable democracy.