July 2009 - 16 Months later, and finally the Pakatan Rakyat has decided to set up Cabinet Committees (not a 'shadow cabinet') - 25 different Pakatan Rakyat(PR) Cabinet Committees.
Better late than never, and I think that this is a good move...
When is the implementation date? Who are the members of the different committee? Maybe, this information should be immediately made available on the Pakatan Rakyat website.
Each of these 'cabinet committees' should also have an e-mail address, which will enable us also to write to them...make proposals, seek clarifications, etc..
It should not just be a 'Respond Committee' - responding to matters brought up by the BN government, but it should also be a committee that formulates also PR proposals for dealing with certain concerns/issues affecting Malaysia and its peoples...Tell the BN how to deal with the issue - and not stop at just opposing BN proposals.
It seems that this PR decision is only with regard to Parliament - what about the State Legislative Assembly..
Each of these 'cabinet committees' should also have an e-mail address, which will enable us also to write to them...make proposals, seek clarifications, etc..
It should not just be a 'Respond Committee' - responding to matters brought up by the BN government, but it should also be a committee that formulates also PR proposals for dealing with certain concerns/issues affecting Malaysia and its peoples...Tell the BN how to deal with the issue - and not stop at just opposing BN proposals.
It seems that this PR decision is only with regard to Parliament - what about the State Legislative Assembly..
Pakatan Rakyat today announced the setting up of committees to correspond with the 25 ministries in the federal cabinet.
"There are 25 ministries and each ministry will have a member of parliament from PKR, DAP and PAS."And the committees will also have specialists in respective fields to help the Pakatan MPs," said PKR vice-president Azmin Ali at a press conference in Parliament today.
He however stressed that this was not a shadow cabinet.
He added that the committees were established to enhance the quality of debate in the Parliament as the MPs would be better prepared.
"For the time being this is enough," he said.
Azmin said the first task of the respective committees would be to be well-prepared for the budget session in October.
DAP MP Tony Pua who was also at the press conference said Pakatan had not formed a shadow cabinet as it was not recognised by the Parliament as was practiced in other countries.
He said that in other countries the shadow cabinets were recognised and assisted by the Parliament to help with research to provide constructive feedback.
"In our case we will never get such a recognition... committees are more practical," he said. - Malaysiakini, 2/7/2009, Pakatan forms 'cabinet' committees
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