‘Rep must get majority support’

PETALING JAYA: Even the party with the largest number of state assemblymen in Perak would not be able to install its candidate as the next mentri besar if the person cannot garner enough majority from all the state assemblymen across all parties, says constitutional expert Emeritus Prof Datuk Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi.

He pointed out that in the case of the Perak state assembly, which ousted its Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu of the Perikatan Nasional coalition through a vote of confidence on Dec 4, the most important rule is that whoever is proposed as the next MB, he or she must have support of the majority to be appointed by the Sultan of Perak.