Ahead of confidence vote in Parliament, PM Muhyiddin warns recovery may be affected if govt changes
Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin speaks to reporters at the Sungai Raya district office in Muar August 6, 2021. ― Bernama pic
MUAR, Aug 6 ― Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today said that the tabling of a motion of confidence for prime minister is normal and that he is ready and neither scared nor worried to face it and prove that he still has the majority support of the MPs at next month’s Parliament sitting.
“Yes, the confidence motion for prime minister is normal in Parliament, but what should be considered is the country’s current situation and problems.
“Can the country handle more problems should there be a change (of government) or political chaos? I’m not anticipating that...but it may affect the National Recovery Plan (PPN) and other efforts such as the vaccination programme,” he told reporters at the Sungai Raya district office here today.
Nevertheless, Muhyiddin said he would leave it entirely to the discretion of the MPs to decide the best thing to do.
He said this in response to the statement by Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi questioning the majority support for the prime minister and the motion of confidence to be tabled in Parliament next month.
Muhyiddin said the proposed tabling of the motion of confidence for him in Parliament had received the consent of Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah.
“I want to reiterate that I have had an audience with the King which lasted almost an hour a few days ago.
“Many issues were discussed during the meeting, including whether I have sufficient support. I am confident that until today, I still have it (majority support) despite the announcement made by certain quarters allegedly withdrawing their support for me.
“Things are not always what they seem. This is a political issue and that’s why His Majesty consented to it (to be brought to Parliament),” he said.
Earlier, Muhyiddin presented food baskets and fresh food to village heads in the Pagoh constituency to be distributed to the local communities. ― Bernama
“Yes, the confidence motion for prime minister is normal in Parliament, but what should be considered is the country’s current situation and problems.
“Can the country handle more problems should there be a change (of government) or political chaos? I’m not anticipating that...but it may affect the National Recovery Plan (PPN) and other efforts such as the vaccination programme,” he told reporters at the Sungai Raya district office here today.
Nevertheless, Muhyiddin said he would leave it entirely to the discretion of the MPs to decide the best thing to do.
He said this in response to the statement by Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi questioning the majority support for the prime minister and the motion of confidence to be tabled in Parliament next month.
Muhyiddin said the proposed tabling of the motion of confidence for him in Parliament had received the consent of Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah.
“I want to reiterate that I have had an audience with the King which lasted almost an hour a few days ago.
“Many issues were discussed during the meeting, including whether I have sufficient support. I am confident that until today, I still have it (majority support) despite the announcement made by certain quarters allegedly withdrawing their support for me.
“Things are not always what they seem. This is a political issue and that’s why His Majesty consented to it (to be brought to Parliament),” he said.
Earlier, Muhyiddin presented food baskets and fresh food to village heads in the Pagoh constituency to be distributed to the local communities. ― Bernama
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ReplyDeleteKing Advised Mahiaddin Three Times To Resign!
5 Aug 2021
Sarawak Report has received information via reliable sources connected to royal circles which indicates that ONCE AGAIN the prime minister has sought to deceptively massage what the King has communicated to him.
Just last week the monarch was forced to make a public statement rebutting claims by Mahiaddin and his legal spokesman that he had given royal assent to a surprise revocation of the State of Emergency, in order to avoid the matter being debated and voted on in Parliament.
Faced with the exposure of his lies the prime minister suspended the session that he had been pressured to hold for this very purpose by a direct order of the King acting together with the Council of Rulers.
According to the information obtained by Sarawak Report Mahiaddin’s weekly audience with the Prime Minister yesterday morning lasted barely five minutes. “There were just twelve minutes between the time the PM arrived at the palace and when his car drew away again” sources have whispered.
During that brief audience the King advised his beleaguered Prime Minister to resign no less than three times. This was on the grounds that the King said he had clear proof at that time at at least six UMNO MPs do not back his continuance in office (that number has now more than doubled and the MPs have been joined by numerous other segments of their party at state and federal level).
However, despite the evidence staring him in the face the prime minister resisted and claimed the numbers remained in his favour and that he still holds a majority support of MPs!
He begged the King to allow him to prove his case in Parliament, instead of resigning as the King had advised him to do three times.
This the King agreed to and accepted, given that it is the prescribed method for testing a contested majority when the prime minister himself is reluctant to honourably resign.
Naturally, according to SR’s sources, the King had assumed the vote would be immediate and Parliament would immediately be recalled, having been spuriously cancelled last week. However, such details as exact means and timing of the recall were not discussed given the brevity and tension of the conversation between King and his prime minister.
Hence, the willy Mahiaddin’s subsequent deceptive misinterpretation of the King’s position in order to claim that a decision had been mutually reached to hold off the reckoning until September. The obvious purpose being to buy himself time to further bribe, bully and abuse his office in his attempts to cajole enough numbers to pass the vote.
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We must give it to this Kerajaan Allah PM. He always comes up with excuses to stay in power. And fate has given him an excuse of the Covid runaway infections to warn the rakyat of possible chaos should there be a change in government.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I am disappointed that the King agreed with the confidence motion to be tabled only in Sep.