You lied! MPs slam govt over EO U-turn

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PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s sudden U-turn on the revocation of the emergency ordinances (EOs), with him acknowledging that it was not properly done, saw parliamentarians react with astonishment and anger.

Former prime minister Najib Razak said the government’s change of tack showed that it had lied to the country while Dewan Rakyat deputy speaker Azalina Othman Said jeered: “A day late and a dollar short!!!”

In a statement today, Muhyiddin said that with the Emergency having ended on Aug 1, the cancellation of the EOs by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong no longer arose, but said they would still be laid before Parliament in September to be debated in line with the King’s decree on the matter.

He said the motion would be discussed in a Cabinet meeting tomorrow, which he hoped would “resolve the polemic surrounding the revocation of the EOs harmoniously and constitutionally”.

Najib, in response, said the government had lied to the country when it said last week that the ordinances had already been revoked.


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