SHAH ALAM, 9 Sept: DAP today asked forgiveness from the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, because the party cause the Sultan to be disappointed with their decision to only submit one name, the Assemblywoman for Kajang, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, as the new Chief Minister candidate.
The DAP Secretary-General, Lim Guan Eng, said that DAP is loyal towards the constitutional monarch.
“On behalf of DAP, I seek forgiveness from His Royal Highness the Selangor Sultan for causing him disappointment, over DAP’s decision to present only Kajang assemblywoman Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail’s name as the new Selangor menteri besar candidate.
“DAP had decided to only nominate Dr Wan Azizah after discussing with Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim over how it was convention to submit only one name, in relation to Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim’s appointment as the Chief Minister of Selangor in 2013,” he said in a press statement today.
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