LANGKAWI, April 4 — Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz threw his support today behind Karpal Singh’s suggestion for the video allegedly showing Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim having sex to be shown in Parliament.However, the minister in the prime minister’s department said the decision must be made by the Dewan Rakyat Speaker as the screening may run afoul of laws prohibiting pornography.
“If we want to screen it in Parliament, where? It’s difficult to get immunity around Parliament. We have to ask the Speaker first as he decides. No need to bring a motion, just ask the Speaker,” the de facto law minister told reporters here today.
DAP chairman Karpal had said the video should be screened for MPs so that the identity of the man in the video could be determined.
Opposition Leader Anwar has denied he is the man in the video after it was screened for reporters two weeks ago by a mysterious “Datuk T”.
Former Malacca chief minister Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik, businessman Datuk Shazryl Eskay and Perkasa treasurer-general Datuk Shuib Lazim have since taken responsibility for the 21-minute video that was said to be recorded at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur.
The trio said that they had exposed the video to “show that a man who wants to be prime minister is not qualified.”
Police said last week that the video was not doctored but refused to say who the man in the video was.
An opinion poll found that 51 per cent of Malaysians did not believe that Anwar was the man in the video.
Bernama online reported Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail saying such a screening would be “controversial.”
“I suggest that we read the Film Censorship Act which states clearly what constitutes an offence. In this case, I can’t comment because I haven’t got the investigation papers from the police,” he said.
The Malaysian Insider reported today that Nazri, the minister in charge of parliamentary matters, will file a motion in Parliament to hold a royal commission of inquiry into the sex video before the current session ends this Thursday.
He has also lined up several Barisan Nasional (BN) MPs to support the motion.
Anwar will be unable to speak about the matter in Parliament as he is serving a six-month suspension until June for linking government strategist APCO Worldwide to the One Israel concept last year.
Nazri had said over the weekend that the PKR de facto leader would benefit most from an RCI if it cleared him of the accusation by the trio who had screened the video clip.
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