Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) berpendirian tegas bahawa tidak ada jalan singkat mahupun jalan perundangan yang dapat mengatasi krisis politik Perak selain daripada membubarkan Dewan Undangan Negeri Perak dengan serta-merta dan mengembalikan kuasa kepada rakyat untuk menentukan kerajaan yang stabil melalui pilihanraya.
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By Yong Huey Jiun, 2008/10/14
Putting the voters first means going back to them for a new mandate if you want to cross over, Parti Sosialis Malaysia chairman Dr Mohd Nasir Hashim tells Yong Huey Jiun
Q: In politics, what does loyalty mean to you?
A: To me, loyalty is to the people. The party is just an instrument to ensure empowerment of the people and its existence should revolve around the needs of the people. If a party does not ensure that, the party shouldn’t exist.
Q: From an ethical viewpoint, where do you stand on political crossovers?
A: Whether it’s ethical or not is really a moot question. In the early 1990s, the Kelantan (Pas) government wanted to have an anti-party- hopping law. The (Federal Barisan Nasional) government didn’t allow it at the time because it was deemed to work against the government.
But now the government wants to have it because the situation is unfavourable to Barisan Nasional.
BN cannot accuse Pakatan Rakyat (PR) of being unethical when it has been unethical, too. I’m talking about the hypocrisy of using the word “ethics”.
In that sense, ethics have always been violated and manipulated because it has become situational and often subject to the interest of the political party. If it’s wrong, it’s wrong.
Personally, this crossover has to come from the rakyat. You’ve been appointed by the rakyat to represent them; therefore you must abide by the rakyat’s wishes.
If you decide to cross over to another party, the least you can do is consult the people, rather than just defect and expect them to follow suit. As a matter of principle, if the people have voted for you under a particular ticket, you should stick to it. When you move, you have betrayed them because they voted for you under this ticket. Only a by-election can decide.
Q: Even if a member of parliament believes he or she can no longer serve effectively under his or her party or that the party is no longer staying true to its doctrine?
A: Then why can’t he or she resign and have a by-election and let the people decide?
We have to respect the people’s wishes even when we feel it’s wrong (to stay with the party).
As a socialist, I’m happy that the people were empowered in the last (general) election and I want the empowerment to continue, where they can finally decide the kind of leaders they want. We don’t want them to regress. When you cross over, you sidestep them. The rakyat made you what you are. Whether you’re in BN or PR, you must always be subservient to them.
New Straits Times, 4 August 2008
IPOH: Disappointed with the Perak state government’s failure to include its nominees as local councillors, the yet-to-be registered Parti Sosialis Malaysia has called for elections to determine representation at the local council level. “If the Perak state government can hold elections to choose village heads, I do not see why it cannot introduce elections at the local authority level,” PSM secretary-general S. Arutchelvam said. ARTIKEL PENUH (MORE) »
There have been complaints on the ground that the Pakatan Rakyat-led Selangor government was not impartial in selecting local councillors and the only way to invalidate this accusation is to hasten the implementation of local council elections.
Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) pro-tem secretary-general S Arutchelvan said such accusations will persist until local council elections take place. ARTIKEL PENUH (MORE) »
Dr. Kumar di Parlimen – terlalu banyak kuasa di tangan menteri Sumber Asli
Debat terhadap Rang Undang Geologi (Suatu Akta Baru)
Saya terima hakikat bahawa kita memerlukan suatu rang undang-undang untuk mengawal bidang geologi, tetapi saya tidak selesa dengan bentuk rang undang yang dibentangkan di Dewan ini.
Rang undang-undang di hadapan kita memberi terlalu banyak kuasa pada Menteri Sumber Asli dan berkurangan dalam “Check and balance”. ARTIKEL PENUH (MORE) »
By Desmond Davidson, 2008/07/06, NST Online
KUCHING: The honour of being appointed deputy peaker of Parliament has quickly become something of a poisoned chalice to Datuk Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar. He said members of parliament playing to the media were giving him “a miserable time”.
“For the sake of media attention, particularly the television, these few so-called ‘mature, intelligent and very well-educated’ MPs are not only making my life, but that of the Speaker (Pandikar Amin Mulia) and the other Deputy Speaker (Datuk Ronald Kiandee) miserable,” Wan Junaidi said. ARTIKEL PENUH (MORE) »
Sungai Siput, 8 June 2008
Democracy took on new meaning for the people of Sg Siput with the launching of the Majlis Perundingan Rakyat (MPR) or People’s Consultative Council by the Sg Siput Branch of the Parti Sosialis Malaysia on 8 June 2008.
One hundred and twenty delegates from about 15 local Sg Siput committees turned up for this first meeting with Dr. Kumar, the newly-elected Socialist Member of Parliament of Sg Siput and the PSM team. Among the delegates were plantation workers, urban pioneers, farmers, traditional kampung dwellers, FELDA villagers, Orang Asli villagers, Chinese new villagers, housing estate residents and interested observers and guests. The delegation at the first PSM-MPR was a good reflection of the ethnic and socio-economic diversity of the constituency of Sg Siput. ARTIKEL PENUH (MORE) »
