Tajuddin confirms appointment as envoy to Indonesia

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Why drag Agong into issue of Tajuddin’s appointment? – Mohamed Hanipa Maidin

IN his latest attempt to defend the government’s mind-boggling appointment of Pasir Salak MP Datuk Seri Tajuddin Abdul Rahman as our Malaysian ambassador in Indonesia, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob is trying his best to defuse such a boiling issue.

Now he is unnecessarily dragging the royal institution into the fiasco.

In responding to a clarion call by many civil society groups – including a few former senior ambassadors – the prime minister contended that any attempt to withdraw the appointment of Tajuddin may be tantamount to questioning the Agong’s discretionary power.

With the greatest respect, his reasons are at best flawed and at worst too pathetic.

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