Rulers to meet over Covid-19 crisis, says report

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PETALING JAYA: The Malay Rulers are to meet in an emergency session next week to discuss the Covid-19 crisis, according to a Singapore newspaper report.

The Straits Times said the meeting will be held on June 16 after the Yang di-Pertuan Agong has had discussions with political leaders.

Barisan Nasional leaders told FMT they were unaware of any such audience with the King, but an aide to PKR president and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was quoted by the Straits Times as saying: “Things are very fluid and it’s best to wait until Wednesday”.

The Singapore report quoted a source close to a royal family as saying the meeting was not a session of the Rulers’ Conference but “a special emergency meeting”. It would discuss the worsening Covid-19 situation, the slow roll-out of the vaccination programme and calls for the state of emergency to end and for Parliament to reconvene.


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As Covid-19 crisis deepens, Malaysia's royal households set to intervene

KUALA LUMPUR - The heads of Malaysia's nine royal households are set to hold an emergency meeting next Wednesday (June 16), to discuss the country’s Covid-19 crisis, according to senior political and royal household sources.

The sources said this session will be preceded by separate private discussions this week between the King, Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah, and leaders of registered political parties to get feedback on the government’s handling of the pandemic.

Royal household sources told The Straits Times that the rulers' meeting next Wednesday, which will be held after lunch at the national palace in the capital Kuala Lumpur, was decided a few days ago, owing to the worsening Covid-19 health crisis, stumbles in the vaccine roll-out campaign, and growing calls to end the state of emergency and allow Parliament to convene.

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