Keluhuran Perlembagaan dan Kedaulatan Undang-Undang bukan sekadar prinsip dalam Rukun Negara – ia adalah asas kepada sistem demokrasi berparlimen yang menjamin kestabilan dan keadilan dalam pemerintahan negara.

Namun, persoalan besar timbul apabila Dato Anwar yang telah disabitkan kesalahan jenayah dan kemudiannya menerima pengampunan dibawah Perkara 42 Perlembagaan dari kesalahan beliau, dipercayai telah mengelirukan Ahli-Ahli Parlimen BN dan Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong ketika itu, kononnya beliau layak untuk bertanding sebagai calon di antara 19hb November 2022 hingga 24hb November 2022 dan seterusnya dilantik sebagai Perdana Menteri. 

Perkara 48 Perlembagaan adalah peruntukan berasingan dan digubal khas untuk menghalang seseorang yang disabitkan kesalahan daripada bertanding selama 5 tahun dari tarikh pembebasannya dalam pilihanraya, melainkan mendapatkan "pengampunan bebas" daripada Yang di-Pertuan Agong.  Pengampunan Penuh yang diberikan dibawah Perkara 42 adalah amat berbeza dengan Pengampunan Bebas di bawah Perkara 48.

Jadi persoalannya mengapa Dato Anwar harus dibenarkan memimpin negara tercinta ini dengan suatu penipuan, apatah lagi dengan menipu DYMM Agong tentang kelayakannya.

Jadi tiada sebab mengapa mempersoalkan pengampunan Dato Anwar perlu dilihat dari kacamata persoalkan kebijaksanaan DYMM Agong. Pada hemat saya Dato Anwar telah mengelirukan dan menipu rakyat Malaysia dalam persoalan pengampunannya yang tidak diperolehi di bawah Perkara 48. Mempersoalkan fakta ini adalah suatu tindakan mempertahankan Perlembagaan dan Institusi Diraja.

Saya telah mengemukakan perkara ini ke mahkamah sebagai seorang rakyat Malaysia demi mempertahankan prinsip kedaulatan undang-undang. Namun, proses kehakiman memakan masa yang panjang dan teknikal. Sekiranya keputusan hanya dibuat setelah tamat tempoh pentadbiran Perdana Menteri tersebut, ia berisiko dianggap sebagai bersifat akademik semata-mata.

Lebih membimbangkan, ramai Ahli Parlimen kini takut untuk bersuara kerana bimbang dituduh mencabar kebijaksanaan Seri Paduka Baginda dalam memberikan pengampunan. 

Di Malaysia, isu berkaitan institusi Diraja mudah dieksploitasi untuk tujuan politik. Pihak yang memegang kuasa cenderung menggunakan jentera penguatkuasaan dan media bagi menimbulkan ketakutan dan persepsi negatif terhadap pihak yang mempersoalkan proses perlantikan Perdana Menteri ini.

Sebagai rakyat, kita perlu bangkit dan mempertahankan Perlembagaan, bukan hanya pada lafaz, tetapi pada pelaksanaan. Sehingga hari ini, dokumen rasmi pengampunan Dato Anwar tidak pernah didedahkan kepada umum.

Rakyat berhak mengetahui sama ada pengampunan yang dipohon  tersebut juga meliputi pengecualian daripada hilang kelayakan bertanding, seperti yang diperuntukkan di bawah Perkara 48 Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

Tiada siapa mempertikaikan kuasa dan kebijaksanaan Seri Paduka Baginda dalam memberi pengampunan di bawah Perkara 42 kepada Dato Anwar pada bulan Mei 2018.

Namun, pengampunan ini tidak harus dimanipulasi oleh Dato Anwar sebagai  sama dengan pemulihan kelayakan politik, melainkan dinyatakan secara jelas. Maka, sebarang cubaan untuk menyamakan kedua-dua Perkara 42 dan 48 adalah satu bentuk manipulasi perundangan yang amat berbahaya.

Rakyat Malaysia mesti menolak kepimpinan yang bersandarkan penipuan dan pembohongan terhadap institusi tertinggi negara. Negara ini tidak boleh terus ditadbir berdasarkan tafsiran sempit dan memesongkan semangat Perlembagaan.

Saya menyeru agar semua rakyat Malaysia yang cintakan kebenaran dan negara ini untuk bangkit, bersuara, dan mempertahankan Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

ICERD controversy 2018 - Waytha made scapegoat

August 22, 2025. In a video posted online Hindraf and MAP President rejects allegations by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his cyber team that he was the mastermind behind bringing ICERD (International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) to Parliament, supposedly to undermine Malay and Muslim rights.

Waytha stressed that this blatant and desperate attempt by Anwar’s. cyber team was to discourage PAS MPs’ from raising this matter in the current Parliament session.

He stresses that the real initiators of ICERD were Pakatan Harapan (PH) and Anwar himself, pointing out that PH’s 2018 election manifesto at page 76 Promise 26 clearly pledged to ratify international conventions, including ICERD. Although Anwar was then in prison, the manifesto could not have been finalized without his approval.

On 8 November 2018, during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) session at the United Nations in Geneva, Malaysia’s delegation led by Datuk Ramlan Ibrahim - then KSU of Wisma Putra,  declared that Malaysia would ratify ICERD. Waytha argues this was direct initiatives of PH Ministers and not him.

On 18 November 2018, Anwar was reported as saying there was “no problem” with ratifying ICERD and dismissing concerns that it would affect Malay rights. The very next day, 19 November 2018, Waytha added he was attacked in Parliament and accused of pushing ICERD, when in fact he was only answering questions on behalf of the government using input prepared by the Foreign Ministry based on PH’s decisions.

Even after the massive anti-ICERD rally organised by PAS and BN in Kuala Lumpur, Anwar on 9 December 2018 stated that PKR, in principle, supported ICERD and anti-racial discrimination.

Waytha stressed he was made the scapegoat when evidence shows ICERD was initiated by PH and supported by Anwar himself. He claims that Anwar is now using cyber campaigns to attack,  vilify and demean him and PAS leaders—especially YB Takiyuddin and Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man—because he has legally challenged Anwar’s position as Prime Minister.

He concludes that PAS and BN were misled by Anwar on the ICERD issue since 2018, and he is prepared to present more evidence if Anwar continues to deny it.

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I challenge Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to, within 24 hours, release to the Malaysian public the full documents of his petition for Royal Pardon submitted to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong prior to his release from prison on 16 May 2018.

Only through such disclosure can Malaysians know exactly what Anwar requested from the King.

Official records show that Anwar submitted three petitions for pardon:
1.    16 March 2015 – rejected by the King
2.    27 February 2017 – rejected by the King
3.    16 May 2018 – granted by the King

These documents will prove whether:
•    He applied solely for a pardon under Article 42 of the Federal Constitution; or
•    He also sought the lifting of his disqualification to contest elections under Article 48(3) of the Constitution.

The public must also know whether, in seeking clemency, Anwar admitted to his crimes.
 Traditionally, an inmate seeking a royal pardon first acknowledges guilt, expresses deep remorse, and places himself entirely at the mercy of the King. Did Anwar do this? Malaysians deserve to know.

For the sake of national interest and transparency, Anwar must immediately make public his full petition for pardon. Is he prepared to do so? The Malaysian people are waiting.

Waytha Moorthy Ponnusamy

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Now that this legal matter stands glaring in the full light of his awareness, the path of honor is no longer a choice for Dato Anwar, but an imperative—he must resign, and he must do so now