PKR: We prefer a full-time Ipoh mayor

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IPOH: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) has set several criteria for the potential candidate who will take up the post of Ipoh mayor.

PKR national vice-president Dr Lee Boon Chye said the candidate should be able to serve full-time, and should have sufficient experience to deal with civil servants.


»We don’t want the person to leave office to attend Parliament all the time« DR LEE BOON CHYE
“We don’t want someone who has to leave office to attend Parliament all the time,’’ he said yesterday. “It should not be held by an elected representative,” he added, commenting on PKR’s stand on the Ipoh Datuk Bandar post.

Speculation has been rife that Ipoh Barat MP M. Kulasegaran was keen on filling in the post but his interest has been shot down by several quarters.

The post has been vacant since the Datuk Mohamad Rafiai Moktar retired early this month.

Dr Lee, who is also Gopeng MP, said the person for the Datuk Bandar’s post should be able to handle city affairs on a full-time basis.

“We have a candidate. We want the person to be able to run the city hall well, a full-time person and one who is able to implement policies in the spirit of Pakatan Rakyat,” Dr Lee said, adding that the candidate should also be people-friendly.

“The candidate must also be experienced in dealing with government servants,” he added.

“We will be presenting our case at a meeting with Pakatan Rakyat leaders on Tuesday (tomorrow),” he said.

On Kulasegaran’s interest in the job, Dr Lee said Kulasegaran’s constituency was 100% within the Ipoh city limit.

As such, he said, certain policies implemented could be seen as a conflict of interest.

Perak MCA organising secretary Dr Mah Hang Soon had also called for the new Datuk Bandar to be apolitical.

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Anonymous  

That's correct. However, those were the days where the workload was different as compared to nowadays.

I am a Ipoh man, but live and work abroad. I tend to agree that the Mayor should be a fulltimer and not be on part time basis. He or she must not to be distracted in his job by various political activities or ideologies. The importance of the post warrants a person, male or female who is a "People-Person" regardless of race who is capable to lead the city.

I hope that PKR would consider enlisting senior citizens who had demonstrated examplary characters and professionalism in thier carreer, to serve the public.

I sincere hope that the Mayor will bring back the beauty and glory of Ipoh as the cleanest, most beautiful and efficient city in the whole country in the hey-days of the 60's.

Ipoh by birth right

June 16, 2008 at 12:49 PM

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