Waytha’s bid to disqualify Anwar as PM ‘baseless’, says PKR man
PKR’s R Sivarasa has labelled as baseless the argument by a former federal minister that Anwar Ibrahim should not have been elected as the Tambun MP and appointed as prime minister.
Lawyer P Waytha Moorthy is seeking to disqualify Anwar on grounds that the royal pardon granted to the PKR president in 2018 did not state that he was exempt from the five-year disqualification period for contesting an election after being released from prison.
Waytha, a minister in Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s Cabinet from 2018 to 2020, wants the High Court to declare Anwar’s election as Tambun MP on Nov 19, 2022 and his appointment as prime minister five days later null and void.
Sivarasa said such reasoning showed an inability to appreciate the proper meaning of Article 48 of the Federal Constitution, which outlines the…
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