The Penang Malay Congress says ex-chief decider Dzaiddin was right, Mahathir was wrong.
GEORGE TOWN: A Malay pressure organisation has combined the voice to the carol job for the replacement of legal independence. Responding to the new speech by former chief justice Mohd Dzaiddin Abdullah, the Penang Malay Congress (PMC) today urged the government to rectify Article 121 of the Federal Constitution to remove constraints to legal powers.
PMC secretary Mohd Noor Mohd Abdul Kader pronounced it was the responsibility of the stream Umno-helmed sovereign government to restore the public esteem enjoyed by the law before 1988.
Echoing others who have bemoaned what some have called the stream "incestuous relationship" in between the law as well as the executive arms of government, he laid the censure upon former budding apportion Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
He pronounced Mahathir compromised the "independence, firmness as well as dignity" of the law in order to safeguard his position as Umno president.
"It's Umno's avocation now to right the wrong," he added.
In his speech at the Tunku Abdul Rahman Memorial upon Feb 10, Mohd Dzaiddin pronounced judges had become subservient to statute politicians since Article 121 was amended in 1988.
"Mohd Dzaiddin's statement was realistic even yet it! was 24 years late," Mohd Noor told FMT, shouting off the rejection by Dr Mahathir.
He pronounced consistent domestic division in to legal affairs had undermined the credibility, firmness as well as autonomy of judiciary, as well as eroded public confidence in it.
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