Yang di Pertuan Agong will only consider Guan Eng’s petition to remove his disqualification as MP after the Malacca Yang di Pertua Negeri had decided on his  pardon petition


Media Statement
by Lim Kit Siang  

(Petaling Jaya, Tuesday):  DAP Deputy Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Guan Eng has been informed that the Yang di Pertuan Agong will only consider his petition to remove his disqualification as Member of Parliament after the Malacca Yang di Pertua Negri had decided on his pardon petition.

Guan Eng, who is in Kajang Prisons on two concurrent jail sentences of 18-months each under the Sedition Act and Printing Presses and Publications Act, was informed of this in a letter from Istana Negara  dated 26th September 1998 from Datuk Pengelola Bijaya Di Raja, Datuk Abdul Rahman bin Hj. Ali.

The letter to Guan Eng, among other things, states:
 

(6/10/98)


*Lim Kit Siang - Malaysian Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Democratic Action Party Secretary-General & Member of Parliament for Tanjong