{"id":7347,"date":"2020-12-14T20:18:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T12:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=7347"},"modified":"2020-12-14T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T12:18:10","slug":"vote-for-interest-of-nation-mahathir-tells-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=7347","title":{"rendered":"Vote for interest of nation, Mahathir tells MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 &#8212; Barely 24 hours before the 220 Members of Parliament participate in the final voting of Budget 2021 tomorrow, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has called on them to vote in&nbsp;the interest of the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe people&#8217;s representatives who love the country should go beyond the party and self and vote for the country,\u201d the former prime minister said at a press conference also attended by another veteran politician, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, here, today.<\/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\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"nation\" class=\"wp-image-7348\" width=\"423\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088-1024x580.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088-177x100.jpg 177w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088-350x198.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088-800x453.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088.jpg 1061w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow, MPs will vote for Budget 2021 at its third reading. The budget was passed at the policy stage by a voice vote on Nov 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hinting that the passage of the budget may face some difficulty at the third reading, Dr Mahathir called on the MPs to come together for the sake of a stronger future of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2026&nbsp;I hope those in Parliament will begin to think not about themselves but the nation\u2026 not what I will get but what I can contribute for the progress of the nation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=1912179\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 &#8212; Barely 24 hours before the 220 Members of Parliament participate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7347","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\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088.jpg",1061,601,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088-300x170.jpg",300,170,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088-768x435.jpg",640,363,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088-1024x580.jpg",640,363,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088.jpg",1061,601,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088.jpg",1061,601,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088.jpg",1061,601,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088.jpg",1024,580,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/9223cac7ba6114d09941dd7ace05a56b5fd751ef34088.jpg",720,408,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\/7347","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=7347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7349,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions\/7349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}