No confidence motion for new PM… yet

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KUALA LUMPUR – For now, there is no motion of confidence for newly minted Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob scheduled in the Order Paper for the Dewan Rakyat when it next reconvenes. 

This is according to the parliamentary order of business issued to all MPs late last night, which also notified them of the one-week postponement of the sitting to September 13.

While the daily Order Paper can still be changed even up to the night before the sitting, the omission of the motion has opposition MPs scratching their heads, especially when this has been decreed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on several occasions.

DAP veteran and Iskandar Puteri MP Lim Kit Siang said, considering current developments, the motion, by right, should be the first item of business after the royal address when the House reconvenes.

“A glaring omission is the absence of a confidence motion on the new prime minister in the parliamentary order of business,” he said in a brief statement today.

“In view of the political and constitutional circumstances in the appointment of Ismail Sabri as the ninth prime minister, a confidence motion on (him) should be the first item of parliamentary business on September 14.”



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