Tuanku, Withdraw Your Pleasure: The Attorney General Must Go.

1. In reference to the latest crisis well known to the public, we’ll get straight to the point and seek His Majesty the Yang DiPertuan Agong to SACK the Attorney General whom we too perceive to have committed insubordination.

2. In doing so, we also expect those to be waving the Constitution in our faces pertaining to the part where the King can only do so under the advisement of the Prime Minister.

3. With that we state to remind everyone that the Attorney General endorsed the dismissal of Negeri Sembilan’s EXCO members on the grounds that they served at the Ruler’s pleasure, even though the Menteri Besar said he had given no advice. 

4. The AG should now explain how that reasoning applies to his own chair if the King so decides to remove him from office without the advice of the PM. (freemalaysiatoday.com,    malaymail.com)

5. Article 38(5) of the Negeri Sembilan Constitution provides for royal pleasure while expressly referring to revocation on the MB’s advice. Article 40(1) also requires the Ruler to act on advice. Yet the AG upheld the dismissals. Where, in his interpretation, did that requirement go? (malaymail.com, freemalaysiatoday.com)

6. Article 145(5) of the Federal Constitution similarly places the AG in office “during the pleasure of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong”. Articles 40(1) and 40(1A) underpin the accepted position that his removal requires the Prime Minister’s advice. The AG owes the public a convincing constitutional distinction between the two situations. 

7. Negeri Sembilan supplies a test of his consistency, not a judicial licence for the King to act alone. The state dismissals remain under constitutional challenge. But the AG cannot applaud royal pleasure over someone else’s job, then discover its limits when the spotlight reaches his own. 

8. The assurance that Putrajaya “totally accepts” the King’s right, as described, offers little comfort if their actions point the other way. His Majesty does not need a patronising declaration of acceptance from an appointed official. 

9. The AG must explain how his conduct honours the authority he says he recognises.

10. Tuanku, we respectfully urge that the Attorney General’s appointment be terminated. Let him taste the logic he served others; “Royal pleasure” cannot be his sword when others face dismissal, yet lose its edge when his own chair is at stake.