Batu PKR chief Asheeq Ali Sethi Alivi says her call for a constitutional amendment bill to limit the executive's influence in the appointment of judges is misplaced.
00:00A PKR division chief has slammed Lawyers for Liberty advisor Latifah Koya over her call for the government to urgently table a constitutional amendment bill to strip the prime minister and the executive of all influence in the appointment of judges.
00:15Batu PKR chief Ashik Ali Sethi Alivi said,
00:18It was ironic that the proposal came from someone who was abruptly appointed as Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief during Dr. Mahathir Mohamad's second term as prime minister.
00:27In a statement, Ashik asked why she did not call for Mahathir to remove his powers or influence over judicial or MACC appointments.
00:37Malaysia Keeney yesterday reported Latifah as saying that the proposed constitutional amendment bill could be brought and passed in the parliament session commencing in a few weeks' time.
00:47She also described the alleged leak of minutes from a recent judicial appointments commission meeting as the greatest judicial scandal in history.
00:54Ashik, however, said that the documents had yet to be authenticated, let alone the allegations within them.
01:01He added that the judiciary had faced real, serious crises in the past, citing the 1988 dismissal of then-world president Saleh Abbas and the 2007 VK Lingam judicial crisis.
01:13Ashik criticized her for alleged selective memory, saying she appears to have forgotten the previous crises as they might implicate Mahathir.
