REFERENDUM TERHADAP NAJIB? Bagaimana jika Sabah Sarawak, Mungkin P.Pinang adakan Referendum Tinggalkan Malaysia

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REFERENDUM TERHADAP NAJIB? Bagaimana jika Sabah Sarawak, Mungkin P.Pinang adakan Referendum Tinggalkan Malaysia

 

Pungutan suara terhadap Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak boleh membuka kepada referendum lain, termasuk oleh negeri-negeri yang mahu keluar Malaysia, kata Menteri Komunikasi dan Multimedia Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak.

Salleh berkata Malaysia tidak mengamalkan sistem pungutan suara, dan sebarang gesaan terhadap kedudukan Najib sebagai perdana menteri mesti melalui proses undang-undang di parlimen.

"Patutkah Parlimen sekarang diminta untuk meluluskan satu undang-undang baru mengambil sistem referendum dan buatkan ia terikat dengan perlembagaan?

"Bagaimana jika Sabah dan Sarawak, atau mungkin Pulau Pinang memutuskan untuk mengambil kesempatan terhadap undang-undang baru ini dan mengadakan referendum untuk meninggalkan Malaysia?

"Dan bagaimana jika undi majoriti meninggalkan Malaysia? Adakah ia sah?," katanya melalui satu kenyataan.

Salleh memberikan respons terhadap bekas Perdana Menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad hari ini yang berkata satu-satunya perkara yang boleh meyakinkan orang awam agar Najib kekal sebagai PM ialah melalui pungutan suara.

"Jika saya mendapat undi lebih, ia bermakna rakyat menerima apa yang saya telah tekankan tentang kesalahan kewangan Najib adalah benar, maka dia patut meletakkan jawatan," kata Mahathir.

Menyelar bekas perdana menteri itu, Salleh berkata pembentukan kerajaan dan pelantikan seorang perdana menteri bukan "pertandingan populariti".

Pihak berkuasa sebelum ini memberi amaran kepada pihak tertentu di Sabah dan Sarawak yang mendesak agar kedua-dua negeri itu keluar daripada pembentukan Malaysia. - Malaysiakini


Monday, March 14, 2016 

Malaysia does not practice a Referendum system 

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's latest Blog posting, 'Sacking and Popularity', seems to have missed the point. Dr Mahathir no longer seems to be following the plot and his comments now lack coherency. 

Dr Mahathir is turning this into a popularity contest between him and Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak. Is that what this is all about, a popularity contest? 

Malaysia does not practice a Referendum system, especially one conducted by an international opinion poll company. No country in the world does that, not even the UK or US. 

Should we now also ask that foreign polling company to take over from the SPR the job of managing Malaysia's next general election in 2018? 

Even if we do have a system of Referendum in Malaysia it should be the SPR that conducts it and not some foreign polling company. If not it would not be legally binding. 

Should Parliament now be asked to pass a new law to adopt the Referendum system and make it Constitutionally binding? 

What if Sabah and Sarawak, or maybe even Penang, decide to take advantage of this new law and hold a Refendum whether to leave Malaysia?  

And what if the majority vote to leave Malaysia? Will it be legally binding? 

Governments are not formed and Prime Ministers are not chosen based on popular votes. It is based on majority seats in Parliament. Any novice politician knows this. So I am surprised that Mahathir still thinks that popular votes decides who gets to form the government.

Salleh Said Keruak