Anti-hopping law won’t apply to MPs sacked by parties, says minister
Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar says MPs sacked by their parties will be able to retain the seats they had won in the elections.
PETALING JAYA: The long-awaited anti-hopping law, slated to be tabled in July, will not apply to MPs who are sacked by their parties, says law minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.
According to Berita Harian, Wan Junaidi said MPs sacked by their parties would be able to retain the seats they had won in the elections.
However, he said the anti-hopping law would come into effect if MPs were to quit the party they had contested under to join another party or become an independent.
It would also affect MPs who won their seats as independents during the elections but joined a party after that.
In these cases, the MP’s seat would be automatically vacated.
Wan Junaidi added that he expected the anti-hopping bill to be tabled in mid-July during the second Dewan Rakyat meeting of the year.
Should the bill be passed in that meeting, the law can be gazetted by January next year, he said.
He said the law could be gazetted by September this year if the bill were to be tabled in a special sitting in June.
However, he said this was difficult to achieve as Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob had a very packed schedule in June.
PETALING JAYA: The long-awaited anti-hopping law, slated to be tabled in July, will not apply to MPs who are sacked by their parties, says law minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.
According to Berita Harian, Wan Junaidi said MPs sacked by their parties would be able to retain the seats they had won in the elections.
However, he said the anti-hopping law would come into effect if MPs were to quit the party they had contested under to join another party or become an independent.
It would also affect MPs who won their seats as independents during the elections but joined a party after that.
In these cases, the MP’s seat would be automatically vacated.
Wan Junaidi added that he expected the anti-hopping bill to be tabled in mid-July during the second Dewan Rakyat meeting of the year.
Should the bill be passed in that meeting, the law can be gazetted by January next year, he said.
He said the law could be gazetted by September this year if the bill were to be tabled in a special sitting in June.
However, he said this was difficult to achieve as Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob had a very packed schedule in June.
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kt comments:
Effectively not of any use to prevent hopping. If politician from Party A wants to hop to Party B, he/she needn't do so but just stays back in Party A, then acts at all times for Party B.
What can Party A do? Sack that person and lose him/her, as if he/she hops with that seat, because the person won't lose the seat as per the new proposed Act?
Don't sack the traitor and tolerate his/her treacherous acts of betrayal?
Don't sack the traitor and tolerate his/her treacherous acts of betrayal?
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