Confidence vote only on Sept 7, says Saifuddin
Communications and multimedia minister Saifuddin Abdullah says there will be no earlier sitting for the confidence vote.
PETALING JAYA: Communications and multimedia minister Saifuddin Abdullah has quashed rumours of a special Parliament sitting next week, saying the motion of confidence promised by the prime minister will only be tabled on Sept 7.
He said Dewan Rakyat Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun had already sent out the notice to all MPs on the matter.
“The notice has been issued by the Speaker which is Sept 7 for the confidence motion. For now, that’s the date that we have,” he told a virtual press conference today.
The former PKR man was responding to a report that claimed there were efforts for a special Dewan Rakyat sitting on Aug 18 for the motion of confidence in Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to be tabled.
Many had demanded the earlier sitting as it would be embarrassing to have the King read out his speech – written by the sitting government – only for the government to fall during the motion of confidence.
Even Deputy Speaker Azalina Othman Said had felt that it would be better to have the vote before the King’s opening speech on Sept 6.
Saifuddin, the Indera Mahkota MP, said the Cabinet was still discussing whether the motion of confidence should be tabled by deputy prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob or another minister.
“At this stage, we’re still discussing how to implement it. Although we have precedent in the past, it wasn’t in the ‘temperature’ that we have now,” he said, referring to the current political situation in Malaysia.
PETALING JAYA: Communications and multimedia minister Saifuddin Abdullah has quashed rumours of a special Parliament sitting next week, saying the motion of confidence promised by the prime minister will only be tabled on Sept 7.
He said Dewan Rakyat Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun had already sent out the notice to all MPs on the matter.
“The notice has been issued by the Speaker which is Sept 7 for the confidence motion. For now, that’s the date that we have,” he told a virtual press conference today.
The former PKR man was responding to a report that claimed there were efforts for a special Dewan Rakyat sitting on Aug 18 for the motion of confidence in Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to be tabled.
Many had demanded the earlier sitting as it would be embarrassing to have the King read out his speech – written by the sitting government – only for the government to fall during the motion of confidence.
Even Deputy Speaker Azalina Othman Said had felt that it would be better to have the vote before the King’s opening speech on Sept 6.
Saifuddin, the Indera Mahkota MP, said the Cabinet was still discussing whether the motion of confidence should be tabled by deputy prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob or another minister.
“At this stage, we’re still discussing how to implement it. Although we have precedent in the past, it wasn’t in the ‘temperature’ that we have now,” he said, referring to the current political situation in Malaysia.
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