News of attempts to remove Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim from being the chief minister of Selangor is circling again. This is most unfortunate. See here for example.
I like Khalid’s agenda to separate party from state. Allowing party matters to influence state administration has done much damage to Malaysian democracy. And I bet it has contributed a lot to the spread of corruption in the country too.
But what is more worrying to me is the fact that the group trying to topple him is made up of federal parliamentarians and party leaders from the national level. This is interference into state matters. This is another example of how we in Malaysia have forgotten what “federalism” means. People at federal level should not interfere into state matters. Let the people in Selangor decide the fate of Selangor.
If this continues to happen in PKR, then they are no different from other parties who also ignore the true spirit of federalism.
See my comments in http://www.dinmerican.wordpress.com
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