Separation of Powers Between Party and Government, Selangor Did It!

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In our previous topic, we had discussed and greatly emphasized on the importance of separation of powers between the party and the government. The main purpose of such measure is to curb any possible abuse of powers, corruption, favouritism and conflict of interest between the one party leader who is also a member of the government's executive body i.e. be it the state or the federal cabinet.

And here you are today, the Selangor state government under the leadership of its Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim had did it. He has set a very good example and reference for everyone of us to see and proven that a government without any party leaders or chairmen at helm could be well managed or governed effectively.

Tan Sri Khalid who is from PKR is not the state PKR chairman was appointed Menteri Besar of the state in 2008 after the party won the state jointly with its coalition partners in the Pakatan Rakyat and has been put to continue the state stewardship following the repeated landslide victory in the recently concluded general elections on last 5th May 2013.

In his new list of State Executive Councillors (Excos) which has been sworn in recently before the Sultan of Selangor, the state chairmen of PKR, DAP and PAS has been systematically excluded from the government in order to allow these state leaders to concentrate on managing the state party machineries respectively. The current state PKR chairman is Azmin Ali (Bukit Antarabangsa State Assemblyman), while the state PAS chairman is Dr Abdul Rani Osman who is also the Meru State Assemblyman. State DAP chairman Teressa Kok did not contest in a state seat in the last general elections following the party's directive to give up either one of the seat she had once held (contested and won the Seputeh parliamentary seat and gave up the Kinrara state seat to another candidate).

We applaud the brave move which has been made by Tan Sri Khalid in ensuring the separation of powers between the ruling party and the government. This is to prevent any event, activities or approvals of the government that would eventually being taken up as politically motivated or may be carried out for the political purpose instead of for the public interests at large. With this, the government too would be able to run its daily affairs of the state professionally, ethically and in a transparent manner in line with the public interests.

Selangor has did it successfully, and we urge the other ruling parties to follow suit be in the current arrangement or after the next general elections.

Previously, Penang had also once did the same, when the state was under Gerakan, where Dr Lim Chong Eu was Chief Minister while Datuk Tan Gim Hwa was the state Gerakan chairman. The system was later followed on by Dr Lim's successor Dr Koh Tsu Koon but the practice of having a different person to helm the state party leadership was later discontinued in order to allow Dr Koh to strengthen his position in the party.

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