{"id":11491,"date":"2021-09-13T20:34:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T12:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11491"},"modified":"2021-09-13T20:34:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T12:34:37","slug":"pm-calls-on-mps-to-close-ranks-for-sake-of-people-and-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11491","title":{"rendered":"PM calls on MPs to close ranks for sake of people and country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 &nbsp;&#8212; Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has called on all Members of Parliament (MPs) regardless of their political views, to close ranks for the sake&nbsp;of the&nbsp;nation\u2019s&nbsp;recovery and improving the people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said\u00a0this was\u00a0in line with the decree of\u00a0Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri\u2019ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah at the opening of the first meeting of the Fourth Term of the 14th\u00a0Parliament today\u00a0for all parties to practice deliberative democracy in resolving whatever issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn upholding His Majesty\u2019s decree, this is the spirit in the Malaysian Family that\u00a0emphasizes unity, consensus,\u00a0and togetherness in going through the trials and tribulations,\u201d the prime minister said on his Facebook page today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ismail Sabri also hoped that\u00a0the parliamentary sitting this time could be smooth in the interest of the people and country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-13-at-20.31.38.png\" alt=\"mps\" class=\"wp-image-11492\" width=\"452\" height=\"262\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Al-Sultan Abdullah in His Majesty\u2019s speech at\u00a0the opening ceremony in Parliament had among others, advised all parties to practice deliberative democracy in resolving whatever issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, His Majesty welcomed the openness of the government in giving the opportunity to various parties including all the MPs to be involved in governing the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parliamentary sitting started today with the Dewan Rakyat convening for 17&nbsp;days until Oct 12 and the Dewan Negara (Senate) from Oct 4 to 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=2002873\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 &nbsp;&#8212; Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has called on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nation","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsium-slider-full":"","newsium-featured":"","newsium-medium":""},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11493,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions\/11493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}