This is a sudden and unexpected news.The 47 criminal control of the 47 criminal control faced by the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahi was suddenly applied to the court by the Malaysian General Procuratorate, demanding that Ahmad Zahi "has nothing to do" (can be released but unlike the same asThe court agreed that the court agreed that Ahmad Zahi then brought his signature smile under the supporters of the victor, and walked out of the court with the letter.Help.The news came, and there was an uproar.
These criminal lawsuits faced by Ahmad Zahi can be traced back to 2018. After the Barisan Nasional government fell for the first time, the new chief prosecutor of the new Pakatan Harapan government was appointed by the government system.Frankly prosecuted the publicly prosecuted senior officials involved corruption and abuse of power.Not only was Ahmadzhi charged, but even the former Prime Minister Najib was controlled, and some of them were convicted. After the failure of the ultimate appeal, it had been imprisoned for more than a year.
One of the reasons for the votes of Malaysian voters at that time, one of the reasons was that the Barisan Nasional government had been severely corrupted to overwhelming for more than half a century after the one -party governance of one party. Passover can be cleaned up, and must be overturned and replaced.The most representative scandal is that the funds of a Malaysian Development Company involved in Najib were full of private pockets.The outside world believes that the Barisan Nasional senior officials have been obtained more or less for a long time. As one of the most important politicians in the Barisan Nasional, Ahmad Zahi cannot be exempted from this stereotype.Regardless of the results of the cases of these face -to -face Senior officials, the so -called public opinion court has already judged that they have deserved their sins.Therefore, Ahmad Zahi was suddenly "released" by the chief prosecutor and court, making it difficult for all circles to accept.
The Malaysian Judicial System Division inherited the former Lord of the United Kingdom. As a natural public prosecutor, the chief prosecutor has absolute power to decide whether to prosecute anyone in criminal charges.Control.These decisions of the Chief Prosecutor are ultimate and cannot be judged by the court.Although the control of Ahmadzhi is withdrawn at the moment, the chief prosecutor can still sue his power again with the same or similar crime.This is naturally not ideal for the defendant, because although he was free from the court today, after the prosecutor collected new evidence, he might have controlled it again. Isn't it overwhelmingly facing similar lawsuits?
Some countries, such as the United States, cannot be prosecuted again in the same crime, but Malaysia and many of the British jurisdictions are not the case.After the lawyer of Ahmad Zahi, after being informed of the prosecutor's decision to withdraw the control, he applied to the court to directly judge that the defendant was not established, but the court maintained "nothing to provincial interpretation."Ahmad Zahi vowed to appeal and "innocent".
In any case, Ahmad Zahi has no control in the body, but has caused great dissatisfaction.On the opposition party, Mu Yuding, the former Prime Minister and the Chairman of the Turkish Unity Party, also faced similar criminal control. However, some of the cases were not found that the judge was not fine enough and did not clarify what crimes were committed.
Although Mu Yuding also came out of court at the time, he faced several other criminal control.He saw that Ahmad Zahi was "different lives", and all the controlling shapes were proactively revoked. Of course, he was unwilling. It was just a great political issue.", Criticized this withdrawal decision, believed that the chief prosecutor was" receiving the instructions above. "Because the chief prosecutor is appointed by the Prime Minister (although it is recommended by the Prime Minister and the official appointment of the head of state), this government may interfere with the statement of the prosecutor's prosecutor or not to determine the decision, and stand in the minds of ordinary people.However, Malaysia happened to meet the critical moment of the new and old chief prosecutors.
As for the UMNO led by Ahmad Zahi, the mainstream certainly claimed that he was unjustly snowing.However, other members of the unity government may not think so, because one of the most important discussions of the Pakatan Harapan's long -term opposition to the Barisan Nasional is to equate the BN and corruption.Now there must be a saying to explain to their respective supporters.
Jane Election is green tide test gold stone
After the Malaysian election ended at the end of last year, the Pakatan Harapan resolutely formed the government with the Barisan Nasional Alliance, the reason to prevent the supporters from being the most fearful and considered to be the most conservative and advocated green tide to the green tide.The supporters pursue the spirit of anti -corruption and reform.Now that Ahmadzhi is released, the Pakatan Harapan supporters believe that it is a way to let go of corruption forces.(The party chairman) The Democratic Party of the Democratic Party even claims that if he is not satisfied with the explanation of the General Procuratorate, it will no longer support the Anwar government, so that the latter will lose two -thirds of the seats in the parliament with one vote.The General Prosecutor's Office formulating a statement formally, there are a number of reasons to the decision to withdraw from the withdrawal, although it has not provided detailed content.As for whether this statement can be convinced, it must be tested for a while.
However, time is obviously not in the unity of the government, because this weekend is about to usher in a supplementary election for a state and one state of Johor.In the election of Johor at the beginning of last year, UMNO won the vast number of seats.But the time of transit has moved, and the green tide is coming at the moment.Fort.
The author is the Singapore International Affairs Society (Research Institute)
Senior Researcher
Chief Counselor of the Malaysian Pacific Research Center
