Why is Annuar leading panel to fight inflation, asks Wong Chen

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PETALING JAYA: Subang MP Wong Chen has criticised the government’s choice of a Cabinet minister to chair the special committee to fight inflation.

He said no minister or ordinary politician was suitable for the job because the issue of inflation required a highly technical mind to handle it.

“Economists and technocrats from Bank Negara Malaysia should be leading the nation’s fight against inflation,” he told FMT.

The person chairing the committee is communications and multimedia minister Annuar Musa.

Wong Chen said the committee would be a toothless replacement of the National Recovery Council chaired by former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin unless it was given “some extraordinary powers and a big budget”.

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