{"id":4530,"date":"2020-06-22T00:14:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T16:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2020-06-22T00:14:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T16:14:39","slug":"election-best-way-to-resolve-political-issues-mahdzir-khalid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=4530","title":{"rendered":"Election best way to resolve political issues &#8211; Mahdzir Khalid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA NERANG, June\u00a021\u00a0&#8212; A snap general election\u00a0is the best solution to resolve the\u00a0current political issues, especially with regard to the difference between the number of\u00a0government and\u00a0opposition members of parliament, said UMNO\u00a0vice-president Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid.<\/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\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b.jpg\" alt=\"election\" class=\"wp-image-4531\" width=\"501\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b.jpg 919w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b-162x100.jpg 162w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b-350x216.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b-800x494.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Many questions have&nbsp;arisen, how many government and opposition&nbsp;MPs (we&nbsp;have), so this election should be held so that we can have&nbsp;a solid government in term&nbsp;of support of MPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I as Padang Terap MP also give full support to&nbsp;Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin&nbsp;as prime minister,&#8221; he told reporters here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahdzir also supported a statement by another UMNO vice-president,&nbsp;Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, who suggested&nbsp;that Parliament should be dissolved to make way for the 15th&nbsp;General Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/politics\/news.php?id=1853272\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA NERANG, June\u00a021\u00a0&#8212; A snap general election\u00a0is the best solution to resolve the\u00a0current political issues,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4530","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\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b.jpg",919,568,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b-300x185.jpg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b-768x475.jpg",640,396,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b.jpg",640,396,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b.jpg",919,568,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b.jpg",919,568,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b.jpg",919,568,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b.jpg",919,568,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0b58b1be02e25b23b5c8510342c968495eef71b1e286b.jpg",720,445,false]},"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\/4530","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=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}