Law experts: Sultan has no absolute discretion under state constitution

Under the Johor state constitution, the Sultan of Johor can only appoint a mentri besar of his choice when there is a hung state assembly or a deadlock, based on rational grounds, say constitution experts.

He said the state constitution was in line with the parliamentary democracy in which the mentri besar must be an elected member of the state assembly and not just anyone the Sultan wants. He pointed out that during the 2009 Perak constitutional crisis, the state assembly was not in session and the then Sultan of Perak the late Sultan Azlan Shah had decided on the mentri besar by talking to the three state assemblymen, who “hopped to the other side”.

Another constitutional law expert, Dr Abdul Aziz Bari, said that constitutionally – be it under the Federal Constitution or the state constitution – the King or the Sultan cannot appoint the prime minister or the mentri besar.

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