KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 -- Malaysia is now perhaps the world's only nation to kick out a sitting Speaker of Parliament, former Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof said.

In a press conference today, the former Court of Appeal judge said that Trinidad and Tobago is the only nation known to have removed its parliamentary Speaker, but on the grounds of corruption.

"In a normal situation, after a general election, the government that wins that general election would nominate someone to become the Speaker. What happened now is extraordinary, and I do not know if there are any other nations except Trinidad and Tobago which did something like this.

"Trinidad and Tobago removed their Speaker in the 1990s, because the Speaker was i...