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KUCHING: Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB) welcomes the Federal Court’s decision today which nullifies Dr Ting Tiong Choon’s election as Pujut assemblyman, as a win for the State Legislative Assembly (DUN).
“It affirms the power and authority of the DUN to decide on the disqualification of its members and correctly put to rest the artificial distinction between pre- and post-election disqualification to fetter the power of the DUN,” it said in a statement.
The Federal Court, in a majority decision, had set aside the Court of Appeal and Kuching High Court decisions to reinstate Dr Ting as Pujut assemblyman after he was disqualified by the DUN for having dual citizenship despite him renouncing it before contesting in the last state election.
“Dr Ting Tiong Choon was clearly a disqualified person under the Sarawak Constitution before and after the election,” PSB also said in the statement today.
The party pointed out that to allow a clearly disqualified person to sit in the August House to deliberate and vote upon the passage of legislation would be a travesty of justice.
Apart from the DUN, the other appellants in the appeal case this morning were the then Second Finance Minister Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh, who is also PSB president, the State government and the Election Commission.