Next PM must table vote of confidence, says Leong

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PETALING JAYA: The next prime minister must table a motion of confidence immediately after his appointment by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, says Selayang MP William Leong.

He said the vote will serve to confirm the King’s judgment and provide legitimacy to the new prime minister to govern.

Leong said caretaker prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s administration used “every trick in the book” to avoid a motion of confidence, such as suspending parliamentary sittings and declaring a public health emergency.

It was during this time, he said, that elected representatives could not monitor the government’s management of the pandemic and economic crises.

“We will never know the costs for this game of avoiding a motion of confidence – how many of the 1.4 million positive cases and 12,510 deaths could have been avoided, how many of the businesses closed and thousands of jobs lost could have been saved. This must not happen again,” he said in a statement today.

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