PM has effectively lost his majority now, say analysts

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PETALING JAYA: The announcement that 31 out of 42 Barisan Nasional (BN) MPs will continue to support Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s administration has shown that it no longer has majority support, say political analysts.

They pointed out that the government now only has 104 MPs on its side, with 11 BN MPs against the government and the remaining 105 MPs in the opposition.

This comes after deputy prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob claimed 31 parliamentarians from the BN coalition were still supporting the government, though not all could be present at a press conference held today.

“I think Ismail wanted to help him (the prime minister), but by doing so, he actually officially and publicly demonstrated that, objectively, Muhyiddin has lost parliamentary majority,” said Oh Ei Sun of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.

He stressed that this did not automatically mean that the opposition could take over, as the remaining 11 BN MPs have yet to clarify who they wanted for the country’s top leadership post.


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