“Pemecatan” Mahathir, Mukhriz, Maszlee, Syad Saddiq, dan Amiruddin sebagai ahli Bersatu adalah bukti terjelas permainan politik Muhyiddin ketika negara sedang dilanda wabak Covid-19, membongkarkan penipuan yang kononnya beliau tidak bermain politik kerana rakyat telah muak

Cubaan “membuang” Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Mukhriz Mahathir, Maszlee Malik, Syed Saddiq, dan Amiruddin Hamzah daripada Parti Bersatu adalah bukti paling jelas permainan politik Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin yang telah mengatakan pada bulan lepas yang beliau tidak pernah terfikir untuk berpolitik sejak mengangkat sumpah sebagai Perdana Menteri pada 1 Mac kerana “rakyat sudah muak” dengan politik.

Malah, kejadian ini menimbulkan persoalan mengenai mengapa Parlimen Malaysia masih disekat, dengan ahli-ahli parlimen dihalang daripada menjalankan tugas dan tanggungjawab mereka untuk menyemak imbang dan meneliti tindakan kerajaan sepanjang wabak Covid-19, sedangkan di negara lain yang kini berhadapan dengan beratus ribu kes Covid-19 Parlimen mereka masih lagi berfungsi.

Parlimen Singapura misalnya, bersidang seperti biasa, sebelum dan selepas persidangan sehari Parlimen Malaysia pada 18 Mei, sedangkan di Malaysia, sebarang hal-ehwal Parlimen dihalang pada hari tersebut.

Kejayaan terbesar 100 hari pertama pemerintahan Muhyiddin adalah dalam menyekat fungsi Parlimen Malaysia, yang kini telah membawa malu kepada bukan sahaja beliau, tetapi juga negara kita.

Mahathir dan empat pemimpin Bersatu sedang mencabar kesahan pembuangan mereka daripada parti tersebut, tetap tindakan menyekat dan melumpuhkan tanggungjawab ahli-ahli parlimen untuk meneliti dan menyemak imbang tindakan kerajaan semasa negara dilanda wabak Covid-19 masih belum dijawab oleh Perdana Menteri yang “tidak berpolitik”.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang pada hari Jumaat 29 Mei 2020)

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The attempted “removal” of Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Mukhriz Mahathir, Maszlee Malik, Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman and Amiruddin Hamzah as members of Bersatu is the most blatant display of “politicking” by the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and gave the lie to his claim last month that since becoming Prime Minister on March 1, he had not thought about politics as the people are “sick” of it.

In fact, it has raised again the question why the Malaysian Parliament is locked down and MPs barred from performing their constitutional duties of parliamentary oversight and scrutiny of the Executive during the Covid-19 outbreak, when in countries where the Covid-19 pandemic runs into hundreds of thousands of confirmed cases with death toll in five-digit figures, their Parliaments are not muzzled or locked away.

Parliament in Singapore, for instance, met normally both before and after Malaysia’s one-day Parliament of May 18, when no parliamentary business was allowed to be transacted.

Muhyiddin’s greatest “achievement” in his Hundred Days as Prime Minister is his locking way of Parliament – earning infamy not only for himself but also for Malaysia.

Mahathir and the four other Bersatu leaders are challenging the legality of their removal as Bersatu members, but the lockdown of Parliament and the paralysing of the constitutional role of Members of Parliament of oversight and scrutiny of the Executive during the Covid-19 outbreak still await an answer from the self-proclaimed “non-politicking” Prime Minister.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang on Friday, 29th May 2020)