New MBs/CM:Update

• Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng today announced that PKR’s Penanti state assemblyperson Muhammad Fairuz Khairuddin and DAP’s Perai representative P Ramasamy would be made the state’s deputy chief ministers.

Muhammad Fairuz will be the Deputy CM 1 and Ramasamy, the Deputy CM 2.

Lim, who was sworn in yesterday, said the decision to pick the duo was to have a leadership to represent all communities in Penang.

This is the first time an Indian has been awarded such a high post in Malaysia.

• Whatever the race of the person who is appointed Perak MB is not important. So long as the one appointed is of capable of taking care of all the races’ interests and is fair and transparent in doing his job.

The DAP-PKR-PAS coalition has submitted an official list of candidates to Perak Sultan Azlan Shah.
New Perak MB will appointed by end week

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