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DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang today implied that the Government of Malaysia (GoM) may find new excuses to skip the next Parliament meeting – scheduled for July – due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a blog posting, the Gelang Patah Member of Parliament lashed out at current premier Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, saying the latter could not even convince foreigner observers that his actions were apolitical.
According to the senior Lim, there needs to be clarity from the Perikatan Nasional run GoM whether Parliament is going to be fully locked down until the Budget 2021 session in September.
“Although the earlier Parliament calendar states that the next parliamentary meeting will be in July for 25 days from July 13 to August 25, Members of Parliament are uncertain whether this calendar will be strictly adhered to as there had been four variations to the Parliamentary calender for this year alone,” he said.
PETALING JAYA: DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang today suggested that the Government of Malaysia (GoM) may find new excuses to skip the next Parliament meeting – scheduled for July – due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a blog posting, the Gelang Patah Member of Parliament lashed out at current premier Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, saying the latter could not even convince foreigner observers that his actions were apolitical.
“Last month, the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, said that the people were “sick” of politics and that since he became prime minster, he had not thought about it.
“Is this true?
“He could not even convince foreigner observers.
“This is what a recent “Leader” of Economist said:
“But politicking will not go away. The wobblier Mr Muhyiddin appears, the weightier the incentives he must dangle before wavering lawmakers to keep their backing. Already he has dished out more than 60 jobs as ministers or deputies—in a parliament of just 222 members.”
“That was last week. He already has the most bloated Cabinet in Malaysian history – of more than seventy – with some of the most mediocre Ministers in memory.
“The appointment of government backbenchers and politicians to GLCs, GLICs and other political appointments has become a great scandal of its own.
“So much for Muhyddin’s absurd claim that since he became Prime Minister, he had not thought about politics, when he should be asked when he had stopped thinking about politics and securing a clear majority in Parliament since becoming Prime Minister.”
According to the senior Lim, there needs to be clarity from the Perikatan Nasional run GoM whether Parliament is going to be fully locked down until the Budget 2021 session in September.
“Although the earlier Parliament calendar states that the next parliamentary meeting will be in July for 25 days from July 13 to August 25, Members of Parliament are uncertain whether this calendar will be strictly adhered to as there had been four variations to the Parliamentary calender for this year alone,” he said.
“Furthermore, will all parliamentary select committees be frozen and paralysed for nine months of this year?
“It will be the height of parliamentary irresponsibility if for nine long months, all the 10 Parliamentary Select Committees are paralysed and cannot perform their constitutional role of parliamentary oversight and scrutiny of government actions, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“It will a further height of parliamentary irresponsibility if the real intention of the PN government is to dissolve all these parliamentary select committees,” he added.
Kit Siang then went to insinuate that Muhyiddin may try to suspend the 2021 Budget session, in which case, parliamentary democracy in Malaysia would effectively be suspended.
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