For the first time in the history of Malaysia, the Speaker of the Parliament has refused Supplementary Questions!
It is an absolute disgrace!
After MUAR asked the first question of the day, directed at the Prime Minister, on the Government's "new approach and plans to continue improving the public's quality of life especially in strengthening purchasing power, public safety and racial integration", the Prime Minister then gave his 15 minutes response of prepared speech, fairly standard answers.
What was shocking after that was the Speaker then ruling that "in the interest of time", we will then proceed to the second question! Of course, it created an uproar in the Dewan.
To us, it was a clear attempt by the Speaker to "protect" the Prime Minster from taking on questions by the Dewan.
After a short period of objections by opposition parliamentarians and justifications by the Speaker, thankfully, the Prime Minister stood up to request the Speaker that he be allowed to take on 1-2 questions.
MARANG (Hadi Awang) had the opportunity to ask the first supplementary question, which he used to ask on the cabinet inflation committee.
Oh, and you can check out also Wong Chun Wai's take on "the disgrace at Dewan Rakyat". Ok, I'm halfway to being convinced that I should get my wife (who terminated subscription of The Star in disgust during the election campaign period - I woke up one morning groggily and found SinChew in front of me instead ;-)) to possibly give The Star a second chance... ;-) And note, this has nothing to do with the fact that The Star gave my picture front page coverage yesterday!
17 comments:
I have seen in TV1, to me the speaker is very bias, arrogant, try to control the oppositions to voice out and he is not fit to sit there. I suggest PR takes over the Federal Govt. soonest possible. Otherwise we, the rakyat will suffer again.
So early in the day and already tunjuk belang? LOL
Since you have live feed, can it be burned into CD for the people, rather than just YouTube snippets?
I saw it too. Did u see how the Speaker and PM "main mata" after the latter suggested that he be allowed to answer few questions????
Hi Tony,
I waited for the telecast....As I TOTALLY & ABSOLUTELY AGREED with you! The DEWAN SPEAKER is a BN Nuts...He SO SO SO BIAS towards BN Ruling Party !!!
It is an ABSOLUTE DISCRACE!!! He is really PAIN IN THE ASS!!!
Looking at we need NEW GOVERNMENT!!!
Hi Tony,
I waited for the telecast....As I TOTALLY & ABSOLUTELY AGREED with you! The DEWAN SPEAKER is a BN Nuts...He SO SO SO BIAS towards BN Ruling Party !!!
It is an ABSOLUTE DISCRACE!!! He is really PAIN IN THE ASS!!!
Looking at we need NEW GOVERNMENT!!!
Good stuff Tony!
Please update more on the proceeding and if possible, make it like a live report.
30 minutes of live coverage is barely enuf for us rakyat! It was wasted by the long and boring prepared "speech" by PM and that is what RTM is focusing onto...safe debate and answers from BN!
More...more...more pls Tony...please share the update load with Jeff if it's too taxing for u alone. Thank you.
Jeff Ooi is also updating his parliament blog! Tony, is it possible to switch on your laptop mic on and stream it?
Would it violate anything?
Can't wait for Anwar to make his announcement and take over the government.
what speaker is that!!! really no standard...
i think we really need to change the goverment instead of state goverment
I just blog on the same subject as well. This Pandikar Amin is just too much. Oh yes, there is another Oscar moment when Karpal called Bung Mokhtar a 'big foot'!!!
I know some of these things are new to you. But what did you expect???
Sure, you are doing public a favour by blogging about it, you should instead ask the supplementary question whether these people know they are being blogged live i.e. digitally recorded forever for their children and grandchildren to be ashamed of...
Dat big foot has a big mounth also , din he learn from last election to shut his big mounth? sometimes i wonder , what kind of lessons must we give to get them educated ?????
YB, ask about Pulau Batu Puteh case
As we all know the judgment will be passed on 23 May 2008 in The Hague Netherland.
Could you please raise up this matter as to the size of Malaysian delegation to receive the judgment this time.
This time we dont want too junior officer like Faedzul Adzra Gani Patail to tag along for free holiday on government money. We all know he did nothing during the hearing of the case in November.
Another person to watch is Datin Almalena Johan of the AG Chambers. While other people from other Malaysian agencies burning the midnite oil preparing for the judges folder, she slept as early as 10 pm. We do not need this type of officer.
Thank you for listening.
Regarding Jeff Ooi comment about his car. I think he needs prioriticize the question. I'm actually shock Jeff posted the car park question right after Karpal Singh statement's about the Mongolian women's murder case.
Dear Berhidmat Tony,
Pls be patient to this BN moron. we are waiting PR to form new govt. while im collecting DAP members form for my family member and friend to join DAP!
Our country needs MPs with higher level of consciousness and with higher moral values. Tak tahan melihat...the first meeting in the paliament became such a chaos... shame on us...
(visit my blog: amchow56.blogspot) for more information)
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