COMMENT After a three-and-a-half-week hiatus, the Selangor state executive council was sworn in yesterday. And the man who would have heaved the biggest sigh of relief is Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim.

He had to endure a complexity-strewn course in which his weaknesses and strengths, and those of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition of which he is the nominal state head, were on parade.

It is a measure of the delicacy of the whole saga of selection and appointment of the state cabinet that the Selangor palace saw fit to put out a statement yesterday that sought to deflect from it blame for the delay in inaugurating the exco...