Monday July 14, 2008
‘PR not organising gathering’
KUALA LUMPUR: Pakatan Rakyat (PR) did not make any decision to hold a gathering at Parliament or its grounds today, said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
The Parti Keadilan Rakyat de facto leader said the court order linking him and PR with a purported gathering today was “slander and an abuse of the legal process.”
He said the only decision the PR MPs made was to put forward a no-confidence motion against the Government under Standing Order 18(1).
He said he regretted that the police had “deliberately linked” his name and that of PR in a magistrate’s court order obtained ex-parte yesterday by the Sentul district police.
“The order was not even handed to me but only pasted outside my house today (July 13),” he said in a statement yesterday.
Anwar said he had instructed his lawyers to initiate legal proceedings to set aside the court order.
The Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat will decide today whether to allow the motion of no-confidence against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to be discussed in Parliament.
On a different matter, Anwar said PR’s plan to take over the Federal Government would continue even if he were sent to jail for allegedly committing sodomy.
Speaking during a ceramah in Alor Star earlier yesterday in conjunction with Pakatan’s 100 days in power in Kedah, Anwar said he would not let the “false” sodomy allegation delay Pakatan’s major agenda to bring about political, judiciary and socio-economic reformation.
Meanwhile, Anwar will be at the Travers police station at 2pm today to give his statement over allegations that he had sodomised 23-year-old Saiful Bukhari Azlan.
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