KUCHING: Sarawak Speaker Datuk Amar Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar (pic) plans to appeal the Court of Appeal decision that upheld an earlier High Court ruling that the Sarawak Legislative Assembly's disqualification of DAP Pujut assemblyman Dr Ting Tiong Choon was unlawful.
Referring to Justice Mary Lim's dissenting judgment in the 2-1 decision, Asfia reiterated her view that the relevant provisions in the state constitution should be given a broad meaning and that the state assembly had the jurisdiction to decide on the matter of Dr Ting's disqualification for previously acquiring Australian citizenship.
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