Malaysiakini reported in its Coup for MCA as PKR founder-member joins up that a founding member of PKR Ng Lum Yong has joined MCA. But the item that caught Hartalmsm Reconsecrated’s eye was on the report of what MCA’s president Chua Soi Lek had said.
Malaysiakini reported: The MCA president continued to harp on the issue of Islamic state, citing the previous Perak Pakatan Rakyat state government as an example of PAS dominance of the opposition coalition.
He pointed out that PAS had only won six state seats in Perak in 2008 compared to DAP and PKR, which controlled 18 and seven seats respectively. Yet, the mentri besar was selected from PAS.
While Malaysiakini no doubt was only reporting what Chua had said, it failed to make mention of the fact that Chua was disingenuous, deliberately misrepresenting the situation.
Every adult who read a newspaper in March 2008 knows that it was not PAS which demanded Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin to be MB when Pakatan won rule of the Perak State. In fact a PKR ADUN had been chosen by Pakatan to be MB.
It was the regent, Raja Nazrin, who ignored the ruling party's recommended candidate for the MB's position and went on to personally appoint Nizar to the post.
Hartalmsm Reconsecrated’s job is not to comment on the constitutional correctness and intention of Raja Nazrin's action at that time, but to point out that Malaysiakini, while reporting faithfully what Chua Soi Lek had said, should be obligated to make a comment on the misinformation by Chua Soi Lek.
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