00:00Former PQR Deputy President Rafizi Ramli has fired back at calls to suspend him and eight other MPs from the party
00:08for pushing for a royal commission of inquiry on judicial appointments and alleged interference in the judiciary.
00:15Rafizi said suspensions would do nothing to solve the underlying issues and would not deter them from fulfilling their duties as elected representatives.
00:23In a post on X, he said the move only reinforces the perception that PQR no longer tolerates dissent,
00:30especially when MPs like Hassan Karim have criticized the Prime Minister even more harshly in the past, yet faced no consequences.
00:38Rafizi also said that the suspensions would reduce PQR's numbers in Parliament from 31 to 22,
00:44fewer than DAP, Barisan Nacional and Gabungan Party Sarawak.
00:48The nine MPs that the PQR division chiefs are seeking to suspend are Rafizi, Nick Nazmi, Nick Ahmad,
00:55Rohtia Ismail, Wong Chen, Zahir Hassan, Muhammad Bakhtiar Wan-Chik, Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh, SK7, and On Abu Bakar.
01:06PQR division chiefs said the MPs' actions not only breached party discipline and ethics,
01:11but also cast a negative light on the Prime Minister's leadership and opened the door to political manipulation by rivals.
01:18Rafizi today pushed back against the group's critics, reminding them that PQR was built on freedom of speech and activism,
01:26not blind loyalty or the silencing of dissent.
01:28PQR division chiefs said the MPs' actions not only breached by the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of the government of
