08-01-2021, 06:18 PM
'Let Parliament Vote On The SOE, That's An Order'! What The King Has Told Moo - EXCLUSIVE!
According to a leaked letter apparently sent from the Istana Negara yesterday to Malaysia’s embattled prime minister the Agong has responded with a furious challenge to his Prime Minister, following Mahiaddin’s defiant statement yesterday afternoon insisting the King must follow the Cabinet advice and accept its decision to revoke the State of Emergency without a vote in Parliament.
The emergence of the private letter from the King to his Prime Minister just hours after it was sent represents a dramatic further escalation of the Constitutional Crisis in Malaysia and has pitched the King now squarely behind the rights of Parliament to decide on the future of the PN government.
Mahiaddin had been responding to a public statement made earlier in the day by the King, in which the monarch revealed his ‘sadness’ that Law Minister Takiyuddin Hassan had “misled Parliament” on 26th July with his surprise announcement that the State of Emergency had been revoked the previous week (backdated to 21st July).
The King pointed out that he had not signed off on this decision and that had to the contrary told Takiyuddin and Muhyiddin that he expected the matter to be tabled, debated and voted on by MPs.
The PN government responded to the publishing of that statement by immediately suspending Parliament half way through its sitting (on the usual excuse of Covid) and ministers had then retired to Mahiaddin’s own house before issuing their public rebuttal telling the King he must comply with their Cabinet decision.
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