Kota Kinabalu: Sabahans can expect to wake up after the next State Election results are known to the prospect of whoever becomes Chief Minister only being able to serve a maximum two terms (five years each).
Changes to this effect to the State Constitution would be done soon, according to Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor. The Chief Minister hopes this would not only lead to better governance of the State but also ensure there would always be new blood occupying the top seat with new ideas on serving Sabah.
It was Sabah’s first Federal Minister Tan Sri Peter Lo who got Federal to recognise the appointment of Assistant Ministers in a cabinet-style arrangement, instead of following the peninsula practice of referring to them as State Executive Councillors. Peter, a lawyer who later became Sabah’s second appointed CM, argued then that this was necessary to differentiate Sabah and Sarawak as partners rather than as ordinary Malayan states, as per the spirit and letter of the Malaysia Agreement 1963.
For the record, Tan Sri Musa Aman was the longest serving CM having served 15 years while Tun Mustapha , Tan Sri Harris Salleh and Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan all served nine years each. The first appointed CM Stephens only held the post for 15 months when serious political differences with first Governor Tun Mustapha forced Kuala Lumpur to appoint Lo as caretaker CM from January 1965 till the first State election in 1967 which was won by Usno.
Under Article 6, the appointment of the Chief Minister was based on the Governor’s discretionary powers on “who in his judgement is likely to command the confidence of a majority of the members of the assembly”.
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