{"id":26828,"date":"2022-01-24T12:18:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=26828"},"modified":"2022-01-24T17:32:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:32:25","slug":"court-cluster-wants-another-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/court-cluster-wants-another-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Court cluster wants another election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It is the height of irresponsibility of the UMNO  \u201ccourt cluster\u201d to force general election in Johor when for the last two weeks, Johore had the highest number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in all the states of Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UMNO \u201ccourt cluster\u201d want the Johore state general election to be a rehearsal of the 15th<\/sup> General Election which, they hope, will restore UMNO political hegemony with the return of UMNO hegemon\/kleptocrats to power \u2013 and possibly a convicted criminal of corruption as the 10th<\/sup> Prime Minister of Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this political scenario eventuates, Malaysians will have to deny that they are Malaysians when travelling abroad or they will the butt of international mockery and odium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The denials of spokesmen  of the UMNO \u201ccourt cluster\u201d that the Johore state general election had anything to do with  them are weak and unconvincing, for the \u201cMinisters Cluster\u201d in UMNO will have no say whatsoever to determine  the slate of UMNO candidates for the Johore state general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A good test as to whether the Johore general election is triggered by the \u201cCourt Cluster\u201d in UMNO is whether UMNO is prepared to elevate the issue of the war against corruption as one of the top issues in the Johore polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bersatu President Muhyiddin Yassin\u2019s revelation that the UMNO \u201ccourt cluster\u2019 had wanted him when he was Prime Minister to intervene in their court cases is most shocking as it showed that the  top UMNO leaders do not uphold the principles entrenched  in the Malaysian Constitution and the Rukun Negara such as  the rule of law and the doctrine of separation of powers among the Executive, Parliament and the Judiciary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is clear that the UMNO \u201cCourt Cluster\u201d have deviated far  from the UMNO principles of the first four UMNO Presidents \u2013 Onn Jaffar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak and Hussein Onn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lim Kit Siang<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MP for Iskandar Puteri<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is the height of irresponsibility of the UMNO  \u201ccourt cluster\u201d to force general election in Johor when for the last two weeks, Johore had the highest number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in all the states of Malaysia. The UMNO \u201ccourt cluster\u201d want the Johore state general election to be a rehearsal of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[151,2657,2658,25,60,772,31],"class_list":["post-26828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-highlights","tag-johor","tag-johor-state-election","tag-johore","tag-lim-kit-siang","tag-najib","tag-rukun-negara","tag-umno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26839,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26828\/revisions\/26839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}