11 Malacca Harapan reps to meet governor after state govt collapse claim
All 11 Pakatan Harapan state assemblypersons in the Malacca state government and four others who had withdrawn support for Chief Minister Sulaiman Md Ali will seek a meeting with Malacca Governor Ali Rustam, said state Harapan chief Adly Zahari in a statement.
"The meeting is to discuss efforts that can be taken to ensure political stability in the state and the continuity of the state administration," said Adly, a former Malacca chief minister from Harapan.
This follows a press conference led by Sungai Udang assemblyperson Idris Haron...
All 11 Pakatan Harapan state assemblypersons in the Malacca state government and four others who had withdrawn support for Chief Minister Sulaiman Md Ali will seek a meeting with Malacca Governor Ali Rustam, said state Harapan chief Adly Zahari in a statement.
"The meeting is to discuss efforts that can be taken to ensure political
stability in the state and the continuity of the state administration,"
said Adly, a former Malacca chief minister from Harapan.
This follows a press conference held today, led by Sungai Udang assemblyperson Idris Haron, who, together with three others, announced their decision to withdraw support for Sulaiman.
Idris, a former Malacca chief minister from Umno, also claimed that the current state government had collapsed.
Also at the press conference with Idris were assemblypersons Nor Azman Hassan (Pantai Kundur), Norhizam Hassan Baktee (Pengkalan Batu), and Noor Effandi Ahmad (Telok Mas).
“We have already sent a letter to the chief minister on this decision to withdraw support.
“We have attended (the press conference) showing distrust of the state government leadership today.
"We also resigned (as state executive councillors), which means the state government is no more," Idris said during the press conference in Malacca.
"I can say about this, that we have lost our confidence because several decisions of the state government failed to be implemented, had placed the state in a flip-flop situation. It was as though there were two lions in one mountain.
"This has caused our anxiety and brought us to the awareness to change the current situation," said Idris, without providing further explanation on the internal conflict in the state government.
"I place the interest of the people above all, if every action taken by the state government was inappropriate and failed to achieve its targets in defending the fate of the people... God willing, we will come up with an idea that will give more opportunity to the people in future," he said.
Idris also said he and Nor Azman were ready for any disciplinary action that may be taken by Umno.
During the 14th general election in May 2018, Harapan scored a narrow victory of 15 seats to 13 for Idris' BN coalition and he was replaced as chief minister by Amanah's Adly Zahari.
However, in March 2020, two Bersatu reps and one each from PKR and DAP switched allegiance, which led to Sulaiman commanding majority support and being sworn in as chief minister instead.
Interestingly, Norhizam was the DAP representative who had jumped ship then.
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