\u201cAs I mentioned in the last debate session, this MoU is not a blank\u00a0cheque for\u00a0the government to do as it pleases and\u00a0I would like to remind the government to immediately implement the reform agenda stated\u00a0in the MoU,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she said when debating\u00a0the motion of thanks on the\u00a0Royal Address at the Dewan Negara, here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Senator Datuk Razali Idris was of the view that the tabling of the bill should be done before the 15th General Election (GE15) was held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Razali, he had also voiced his stance on the bill when PH\u00a0was the ruling government then but failed to get any response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI had raised the question when this anti-party hopping law will be settled during PH\u2019s 22-month rule…and after 22 months there is still no proposed anti-party hopping law\u2026I met Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin\u00a0during Perikatan Nasional\u2019s administration,\u00a0and he said currently we have to deal with COVID-19.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut before the COVID-19 situation could subside, he (Muhyiddin) resigned. Then came the next prime minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob and this is the best time for us to table, debate, and support the anti-party hopping law before GE15,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Senator Khairil Nizam Khirudin opined that the bi-partisan cooperation between the government and the opposition should be extended until next year to maintain political stability and ensure that Parliament is not dissolved until a \u2018maturity\u2019 period is reached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMalaysia is in a stable situation and there is no reason for us to put pressure on the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament earlier.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have deliberative democracy so the bi-partisan cooperation between the government and the opposition must be continued so that our country is on the right track for recovery,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Senate session continues tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NMT<\/a> as reported by Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 —\u00a0Several Dewan Negara members today urged the government to expedite the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-23.50.11.png",585,314,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-23.50.11-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-23.50.11-300x161.png",300,161,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-23.50.11.png",585,314,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-23.50.11.png",585,314,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-23.50.11.png",585,314,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-23.50.11.png",585,314,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-23.50.11.png",585,314,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-23.50.11.png",585,314,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-23.50.11.png",585,314,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"Nation<\/a> Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565","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=13565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13567,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565\/revisions\/13567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"tabling\"](\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-23.50.11.png\")
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