KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 — The proposed Bill to amend the Federal Constitution and prevent lawmakers from switching parties is a momentous institutional reform that would have...
KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 — The proposed Bill to amend the Federal Constitution and prevent lawmakers from switching parties is a momentous institutional reform that would have prevented the"Sheraton Move" in February 2020 if it existed earlier, DAP's Ong Kian Ming said today.
"Of course, knowing that their seats would be automatically vacated if they left Umno to join another party, it is likely that these MPs would not have left Umno. Under the proposed amendments, a seat would be declared vacant if an MP who was elected as an independent candidate were to join a political party.
However, there are some conditions under which an MP who changes party will not be forced to vacate his or her seat, namely if their party is deregistered for some reason, resigns from their party to become the Speaker or expulsion from their party.
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