“Isn’t it a lot better to call the PPBM secretary and give some advice. Section 14 (5) should not be used to disrupt democracy,” he said in a tweet today.
He added that it only showed there was something “not right” with the decision. Rais, who is the government’ adviser for social and cultural affairs.
PPBM has gone to court to challenge the provisional deregistration order issued by the Registrar of Societies (RoS) yesterday.
Today, PPBM filed a judicial review application at the Kuala Lumpur High Court seeking, among other things, an order that the RoS’ declaration on the interim suspension of PPBM through a media statement is illegal.
It also wants the court to stop the RoS from taking any unlawful action that prevents the existence of PPBM as a valid political party.
According to court documents sighted by FMT, the leave application has been fixed before Kamaludin Md Said for 9am on April 16.
PPBM secretary-general Shahruddin Md Salleh, who filed an affidavit in support of the action, named RoS director-general Surayati Ibrahim as the respondent.