KUALA LUMPUR, June 28- The move taken by certain quarters in supporting the implementation of selective laws and provisions of the constitution can be deemed as gambling the future of the country, Tan Sri Annuar Musa said.
He said it was wrong for those quarters to demand the implementation of certain laws or provisions of the constitution when at the same time, they were coaching their followers to break other laws or provisions in the constitution.
“In certain circumstances, they may adhere to the laws, but in other situations, they coach their followers to break all rules and regulations. If the country is ruled by people like this, the country’s future will be gambled because they will not practice what they preached.”
Annuar (BN-Ketereh) said this when debating the motion of thanks for the royal address by Yang di-Pertuan Agong at the Dewan Rakyat here yesterday.
Meanwhile, Annuar said popular votes were irrelevant in the context of parliamentary democracy in Malaysia, which uses the first-past-the-post system, in terms of the number of seats won in the general election.
He metaphorically rapped Fuziah Salleh (PKR-Kuantan) when she interjected his debate and questioned the ratio of voters in each parliamentary constituency.
“You challenged us in a football game, so we put on our jerseys, we went out into the field and played. But when you lost the game, you want us to recount your points according to the rules in a badminton game? Is that fair?” he chided.
Annuar also dismissed the allegation by Ahmad Marzuk Shaary (PAS-Bachok) that the Barisan Nasional government was being cruel to Kelantan and had also been biased towards the opposition-led states.
“The federal government has never marginalised Kelantan. In the 8th, 9th or even the 10th Malaysia Plan, hundreds of millions of ringgit were allocated to develop Kelantan,” he said, adding that the underlying issue was not about being marginalised, but more about the fact that the Kelantan government was not capable of developing and providing comfort to its own people.
– BERNAMA
