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Sunday, August 16, 2015

How to ‘topple’ a government, by Razaleigh

Ordinary people and groups can't do it, but Parliament can, says the man who almost toppled Mahathir
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KUALA LUMPUR: Umno elder Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah gave a gentle putdown yesterday to talk by senior Umno politicians and government leaders repeating the phrases “topple the government” and “overthrow the government” at meetings all over the country.
THE PLOT
A short Q&A with Tengku Razaleigh

Are you behind the plot to topple Najib?
What do you think?
There is a claim that an Umno leader is going around obtaining SDs…
These are all Umno people [pointing to guests at his home] around here. And here I am.
So you are not aware (of the plot)?
I don’t think so
So you don’t think there is a plot?
There might be. Maybe not.
So it is news to you?
Yeah.
About whether Umno is split
I’m not following (what’s going on). But I am concerned… The people are facing problems now. Now that the cabinet has been reshuffled, I hope they will work hard for the people
– Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah’s remarks to Alyaa Azhar of Malaysiakini on Saturday
“You need the military to do that. Normal people can’t topple the government,” Tengku Razaleigh told reporters yesterday at a Hari Raya open house in Bukit Jalil, according to Malaysiakini.
In recent days, government leaders such as deputy prime minister and home minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and rural and regional development minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob have been making speeches at party events, warning about “plots” and “conspiracies” to “topple the government” – phrases used by security people usually to describe armed rebellions.
Zahid said at Ampang Umno he had been told by “trusted sources” of such a “plot”.
However, his other remarks showed he was merely talking about attempts to gather enough support from opposition and Barisan Nasional MPs for a petition against Prime Minister Najib Razak, using statutory declarations to show their lack of confidence in his government.
A vote of no-confidence is a standard method in Parliaments to dismiss a sitting prime minister.
Zahid put a sinister connotation to the moves by saying the “plot” was for the MPs to state they had a majority in the Dewan Rakyat and thus “topple” the government through the “back door”.
Tengku Razaleigh, who is Malaysia’s longest-serving MP, said “toppling” the government was out of the question. However, MPs could act within the Federal Constitution and table a vote of no confidence against Najib in Parliament.
“It can be done. The rules allow for it. That is the only thing that can be done by any group,” he was quoted as saying. “It is not unusual. Anyone who is unhappy can bring the motion (to the Dewan Rakyat). If the numbers are achieved, then the person will succeed. If not, then nothing (will happen).”
Tengku Razaleigh, MP for Gua Musang, served in three governments, those of Tun Abdul Razak, Hussein Onn and Mahathir Mohamad, and almost succeeded in “toppling” Mahathir at the Umno elections, coming within 47 votes of securing the Umno presidency. The struggle let to Umno being deregistered, Mahathir forming a new version of the party called Umno-BARU.
While Umno was deregistered, leaving Mahathir without a party, MCA president Ling Liong Sik took over as acting Barisan Nasional chairman, and a confidence motion was called in the Dewan Rakyat which Mahathir eventually won when Umno dissidents did not vote against him.
Tengku Razaleigh went into opposition, forming Semangat 46 and leading two coalitions of opposition parties to some success at elections. He later dissolved Semangat 46 and returned to Umno.

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