Why not Wan Azizah?

IT is without a doubt that the Selangor Mentri Besar crisis issue is highly polemicised. From the very first step – dubbed the “Kajang Move”, with the resignation of the former Kajang assemblyman – right up until the submission of candidate names to the Selangor palace in the last two weeks, the replacement of Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim has been the seemingly unending talk of town.

The merits and demerits of candidates have been proposed, debated, and even derided. Yet it is without doubt that we stand at the cusp of a historic moment in Malaysian history, which is the very real possibility that a female politician will be appointed by Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah as the new Mentri Besar.