Speaker should indeed quit, credibility in tatters

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YOURSAY ‘A Mickey Mouse government will produce a Donald Duck speaker.’

 

Pandikar did hand in quit letter but...

Vijay47: Pandikar Amin Mulia, you should be ashamed of yourself. You are the speaker of Malaysia's Parliament and yet you carry yourself like some kampung ‘nasi lemak’ seller.

 

Resigning from Parliament, whether as speaker or member, is hardly a trivial matter and your conduct was reprehensible. One does not resign and then reveal it to every available opportunist before the formalities have been fulfilled.

 

The only thing worse than this is your subsequent denial and cunning twisting and turning, including that the prime minister had not opened the envelope containing your resignation letter. Aren't you even embarrassed to come out with such an excuse?

 

You had submitted the letter, you had resigned, finished. Your only consolation in this dishonourable episode is that you deservingly have a soul mate in former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

 

He announced it to the world, hoping perhaps to show that he still had his finger on the nation's pulse.

 

Pandikar, your behaviour makes you unworthy of being speaker. You now have no choice but indeed to resign.

 

NewMalaysia: What a stupid liar Pandikar has proven to be. He should have come clean that he had indeed submitted his resignation letter to the prime minister only to decide to stay on after being persuaded by Najib Abdul Razak.

 

That his resignation was not accepted by the prime minister is not at all equivalent to not having submitted his resignation.

 

If Pandikar’s excuse for lying can be accepted, then imagine if robbers doing the same when halfway through a bank robbery, the police come and they decide to return the money to the bank and insist they did not rob the bank. Is that acceptable?

 

Worried Sick: Indeed, there was no reason for the House speaker not to tell the truth the first time. Mahathir was nearly made to look like a liar. Surely he would not make such a statement without the facts.

 

Now, the former premier is right after all. We have a useless speaker. Resign, if you have any dignity left. You have no more credibility.

 

Real Truth: Pandikar should apologise to Mahathir. He is not fit to be the speaker since he is untrustworthy and has no principles at all.

 

We expect leaders to have decorum and should be truthful for they are the people the younger generation will emulate.

 

Watchtower: When a leader cannot say what he/she means, that a yes is a yes, and a no is a no, he is not a role model to his followers.

 

Homesick: What do you expect? A Mickey Mouse government will produce a Donald Duck speaker. This is like something out of the Looney Tunes cartoon series. This cartoon government thinks it's all one big joke.

 

Imanust Nais Yalam: Yesterday, Pandikar admitted that he met former Mahathir, but denied he said he would be quitting.

 

Today, he admits submitting his resignation letter to Najib. This means he lied. How to believe anything he says. This is typical of BN politicians.

 

JD Lovrenciear: Najib did not open your resignation letter? And you are not resigning because without opening your letter, he promised you ‘transformation’?

 

We Malaysians are indeed bloody fools.

 

Wg321: If Najib did not open the letter, how did he know that it was a resignation letter from Pandikar in the first place? It doesn't sync.

 

Dalvik: Yesterday Pandikar said he “won't bow down to pressure” then today he said he has “decided to stay put”.

 

Come on, Najib promised you he would transform Parliament. Take a look at what he promised the nation and what he has transformed this nation into.

 

Hermit: Whatever the motives displayed by Pandikar, Malaysians must come to their senses that Mahathir is a powerful force. Nobody can write him off as yet, not even Najib.

 

Pandikar has a boss but he did not see him. Instead he took the trouble to pay homage to Mahathir and confided in him.

 

Anticommunalist: "I would not bow to pressure from the executive," said Pandikar.

 

Well, we all know who the executive is but what we do not know is - what pressure did the executive exert on Pandikar?

 

Anonymous #19098644: So the truth is out. Mahathir told the truth and Pandikar changed his mind for reasons best known to him and Najib. Our prime minister is famous for helping you if you help him.

 

I wonder what help did he get to change his mind?

 

Fair Play: Here is how I read Pandikar comment. He just issued a veiled threat that he will not bow to pressure to prevent any motion to be tabled in Parliament on a no-confidence vote against the premier.

 

6th Generation Immigrant: I am confused why Pandikar submitted his resignation to the prime minister.

The speaker is elected to a term that lasts for the length of the term of the Dewan Rakyat that elected him.

 

His term ends when the House is dissolved and a general election is called. He is elected when the House meets for the first time after a general election by the members of the House, who are called MPs - not PM.


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