GEORGE TOWN, Aug 5DAP lawmaker Lim Guan Eng is pushing for an emergency special sitting of the Penang legislative assembly to decide on the fate of two assemblymen who jumped from PKR to Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia after the Federal Court’s landmark ruling on the state’s anti-party-hopping law.
“Section 14A would exclude the two Bersatu assemblymen Khaliq Mehtab Mohd Ishaq and Zolkifly Md Lazim because they had contested as Bersatu members even though they had used the PKR logo,” he said in a statement today.are caught by Section 14A after they ceased to be PKR members following their expulsion for betraying the party,” he added.
He said the new amendments to the Federal Constitution have yet to be gazetted, so the state’s anti-party-hopping law should be applied on Dr Afif and Zulkilfi.