Despite the law stating otherwise, on a personal level I don’t agree with the decision to disqualify Dr Ting Tiong Choon as Pujut assemblyperson.Therefore, when he campaigned and won the seat, he was a Malaysian and I feel this factor should have been considered in the court’s judgment.Article 17 of the Sarawak State Constitution states that"a person is disqualified if he had voluntarily obtained or exercised the right of citizenship in any other country".
You cannot have the cake and eat it at the same time. I am not a BN supporter but neutral in my political preference. Should it not be the court that can disqualify a representative? Or ultimately, the verdict must be returned to the people with their votes.Despite Ting being disqualified as Pujut assemblyperson, there will not be a by-election for the vacated state seat as it has been more than three years since the Sarawak state election was held in 2016.
It is people with fanatical views like Sarawak PAS commissioner Jofri Jaraiee and Putra vice-president Mohd Khairul Azam Abdul Aziz, who are now calling for Ting’s Malaysian citizenship to be revoked, are the real cause for many Malaysians to seek citizenship elsewhere.Isn’t Mohd Khairul the same person who challenged the constitutional validity of vernacular schools in Malaysia? Now, he has turned his attention on the issue of revoking ex-Pujut assemblyperson Ting’s Malaysian citizenship.
What right do Jofri and the Kuala Lumpur-based Khairul have to ask for the revoke? Ting has as much right as anybody else who is a Malaysian citizen.
Lagi la kurang ajar....
Is he born in Sarawak in Malaysia holding the birth certificate of Sarawak ? Is the origin of his citizenship ? Even he hold the optional second citizenship is not by default !!!
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