How the ‘boss’ behave and use their majority also very important
Or just to show-off how they abuse their majority for fun?!!
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Sarawak BN stages walkout ‘to show opposition who is boss’
Bernama News, 13 May 2009
KUCHING, May 13 – For the first time in the history of the Sarawak legislature, Barisan Nasional (BN) assemblymen staged a walkout forcing an adjournment of the state assembly sitting today.
It started when the DAP’s Kota Sentosa assemblyman Chong Chieng Jen tabled a motion to move a bill called ‘Land Law reform (Renewal of Terms of Documents of Title and Acquisition) Ordinance, 2009’.
The majority of the BN assemblymen reacted by leaving the hall, prompting Speaker Datuk Seri Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar, to announce the sitting had to be adjourned to 9am tomorrow as there was no quorum.
Only seven state assemblymen were left in the hall then. There were Chong, DAP Batu Lintang assemblyman Voon Lee Shan and five other BN state assemblymen.
This came as a double blow to the opposition, especially the DAP. Five minutes earlier, the opposition leader, Wong Ho Leng (Bukit Assek) was suspended from the Sarawak State Assembly for 12 months for a “camouflage” remark he made in the November sitting of the assembly last year.
Deputy Chief Minster Tan Sri Dr George Chan said the staged walkout showed to the opposition “who is the boss” in the State Legislative Assembly.
“If BN want to be naughty, every time when the opposition want to talk (on an issue), we walk out and they can’t talk.
However, we never did that before. This is the first time the BN assemblymen staged a walkout. Today, we want to show them who is the boss,” he told reporters at the lobby of the State Legislative Assembly building.
Dr Chan, who is also Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) president, said the motion tabled by Chong was to gain political mileage.
“Last year, we had spent so much of time on debating the land issue. So, it is wasting time (debating on the land issue). I prefer we go to the ground and solve the problems,” he said.
Meanwhile, Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president Datuk Seri Dr James Masing said the staged walkout was to teach the opposition a lesson on parliamentary democracy – that the one who had got the majority would always be powerful.
“Every time when the opposition staged a walkout to protest, it has little effect. Now, when BN do the same thing on them, it resulted in the adjournment of the assembly and inability of Chong to debate on his land motion,” Dr Masing, who is also the state Land Development minister, said. – Bernama