KOTA BARU: The Kelantan palace is bracing for a long “legal battle” with the installation of Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra as the new Sultan today.
Words of the installation got around last week but none of the state officials wanted to comment on it. Even Menteri Besar Nik Aziz Nik Mat declined to comment yesterday when asked by reporters.
However, the sultan’s sister, Tengku Merjan Tengku Yahya Petra, had questioned the legitimacy of installing a new sultan a few days before the event took place.
In a statement that appeared in a blog Just Read, she said a sultan would lose his throne on three grounds: his demise, his absence from the state (without valid reasons) for more than a year, and his abdication.
She said in the absence of the three reasons, any attempt to remove a reigning sultan by any other means would amount to a coup and treason.
She added that those who assisted in the act might find themselves named as conspirators.
Tengku Merjan urged the state and federal authorities to step in as the success of the coup would create a major national crisis.
Her statement came just a day before the installation.
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