Constitutional expert Abdul Aziz Bari holds the view that Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu should have appointed Pakatan Rakyat as the caretaker government and then instructed it to dissolve the state assembly for fresh elections.

That would be the right thing to do, Aziz said, when it became clear that newly-appointed Menteri Besar Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman had lost the confidence of the House with the spate of resignations from Umno yesterday.