{"id":14448,"date":"2022-07-27T15:15:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T07:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=14448"},"modified":"2022-07-27T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T07:15:17","slug":"constitutional-amendment-mps-who-jump-ship-will-lose-seat-ismail-sabri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=14448","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional amendment : MPs who jump ship will lose seat – Ismail Sabri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KUALA LUMPUR, July 27<\/strong> —\u00a0A Member of Parliament elected by the people through a general election\u00a0will lose the seat that was won, if he or she switches party or commonly known as party hopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The matter is contained in the Constitution (Amendment) Bill (No. 3) on the provision of the Prohibition of Members of Parliament from Party Hopping which was tabled for a second reading by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob in the Dewan Rakyat today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The enacted Constitutional Amendment contains four paragraphs and six clauses, with four of them being new clauses.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“The New Clause 4 aims to insert a new Article 49A into the Federal Constitution to provide that a Member of the House of Representatives shall cease to be a member of the House and his\/her seat shall become vacant as soon as a contingency vacancy date is determined by the Speaker of the House,”<\/em> said Ismail Sabri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the same applies to Independent MPs who after being elected to the House of Representatives, joins a political party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Any Member of Parliament who switches to another political party or\u00a0who leaves the political party of which he was a candidate during the election\u00a0to become an Independent MP, will cease to be a Member of the Dewan Rakyat and will have to vacate his\/her seat,”<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ismail Sabri however said, a Member of Parliament will not lose his seat if he\/she was dismissed by his\/her party or if his \/her political party is dissolved or deregistered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill also repeals the five-year ban on those who resign as members of parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The new Clause 3 aims to delete Clause (6) of Article 48. This deletion will allow any Member of the House of Representatives who renounces his\/her membership to contest again at any time after he\/she renounces membership in the House of Representatives and as such the five-year ban on contesting, no longer applies,”<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ismail Sabri said also included in the bill is the authority of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to make this law applicable at the state level through a gazette, with the permission of the head of state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NMT<\/a> as reported by Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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