Kit Siang: ‘Most improper’ to bar MPs’ from voting during special Parliament meet

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KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — The extraordinary circumstances around the five-day special meeting next week did not invalidate the usual parliamentary conventions and practices such as lawmaker’s votes, said DAP’s Lim Kit Siang.

The DAP lawmaker noted that the parliamentary order paper for the meeting starting on Monday provided no opportunity for members of parliament to vote on each minister’s presentation following debate.

“Furthermore, it makes a mockery of the Malaysian Constitution and its bedrock principles of a constitutional monarchy based on parliamentary democracy and the doctrine of separation of powers in denying the DAP MP for Bruas and former Perak Speaker, Ngeh Koo Ham, the opportunity to present his motions to annul the Emergency Proclamation and Ordinances.

“A special meeting of Parliament does not mean that the parliamentary standing orders, parliamentary practices and conventions can be violated,” Lim said in a statement.


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