For those of you who’d want to follow the parliamentary session today to catch Rafidah Aziz in the docks, there’s always Bernama; I doubt hansard will have the transcripts of the parliamentary session so soon, but you can look here. I definitely want to, and I’ll be checking in later today.

UPDATE: Maxis/SMS alert 11.07am — Rafidah strongly defended her integrity when asked in Parliament about the AP issue saying she did not have any ties with any AP holders.

UPDATE: Very anti-climatic. Bernama reports Rafidah’s comments on Proton’s competitiveness overseas, except for this bit:

Rafidah, who remained composed, despite several allegations aimed at her by the Opposition, said that her ministry had even asked Proton to outline a comprehensive export strategy to help the company enhance its competitiveness in the overseas market.

But the gist of her response, I think, can be summed up neatly:

If Proton can come up with good pricing and good quality, it would be able to enter any market, she said.

She said that Proton was the first foreign car to enter the Chinese market and managed to sell 20 units at first but did not pursue the market further.

“I am surprised as to why there has been no follow-up to that. Meanwhile, the Chinese market now is getting more and more bigger and is worth millions of ringgit,” she said.

I don’t think others would see it as funny the way I do, but I’m wondering how the public’s going to swallow the above situation: on one side you have the still-unresolved AP issue, and on the other we have the disastrous ‘adventure’, Proton. One side holds forth Proton as the root of all evil, while the other does the same, only this time with the whole ‘AP’ issue. The public is torn between hating both and wanting both sides to tear each other apart. Ha! Good Fun!