02-22-2021, 06:35 PM
In fresh salvo against Muhyiddin, Pakatan likens Malaysia to Myanmar’s junta for suspending Parliament
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 — Pakatan Harapan (PH) leaders today repeated their call for Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to lift the suspension of Parliament and again accused the prime minister of subverting democracy by imposing Emergency rule to stay in power.
Saying the nation needed to be “saved”, the Opposition coalition’s top leaders likened the suspension of Parliament to the power grab by Myanmar’s military junta that overthrew the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi who won a landslide victory and decimated an opponent seen as the army’s proxy in November 2020 general election.
They claimed Muhyiddin’s government was no different from the Junta because it too had used the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to impose autocratic rule as a way to divert attention from their failure to tackle the health and economic crisis effectively.
“The (Malaysian) government is trying to deflect responsibility for its failure to contain the Covid-19 pandemic by obtaining the (royal) assent to Emergency rule and suspending parliament,” PH leaders said in a statement.
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