If convicted civil servants suspended, why spare elected reps, asks Rais

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If a civil servant must be suspended if charged in court, Dewan Negara Speaker Rais Yatim today questioned why the same rule was not enforced for elected representatives.Rais (above) said this was despite Article 8 of the Federal Constitution stating that everyone is equal under the law.Therefore, he said, a new method must be devised to punish convicted elected representatives who are allowed to resume their duties pending a conviction or final appeal."Now we see a civil servant who is charged in court, all their duties are suspended."But for elected representatives, they can remain active even if out on bail or pending appeal," said the former de facto law minister during BN's era."Clearly, for elected representatives, there is a need to think of measures outside the legal system, which now we have no answer to."[...] (Unlike civil servants), the…