King decides who has majority, not you, PM told

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PETALING JAYA: Muhyiddin Yassin has been slammed for making his own assumption that no other leader commands parliamentary majority support, with the prime minister being told that the matter should be decided by the King, not him.

Umno veteran Shahrir Samad said it was the Yang di-Pertuan Agong who had the say on who commands the majority support of MPs, as enshrined in the Federal Constitution.

Noting that Muhyiddin essentially admitted to losing his majority support, Shahrir said Article 43 of the Constitution clearly stated that the prime minister has to either resign or advise the King to dissolve Parliament.

“It’s not a constitutional crisis, but he’s stretching the Constitution too far. It’s like he added another provision in Article 43, that he remains prime minister because no other person has the majority. That is not in the Constitution.

“The main thing is that he has lost his majority and should act according to the Constitution. Instead, he’s making conditional offers as an inducement for him to stay as prime minister since no one has the majority, which is an assumption.


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