Cabinet’s ‘last opportunity’ to do right by Parliament, Kit Siang says
DAP lawmaker Lim Kit Siang says the country is ‘indulging in the shocking and ridiculous idea’ of a single-day parliamentary sitting. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, April 29, 2020.
LIM Kit Siang has urged the cabinet, which is meeting this morning to decide on a virtual Parliament session, to allow a longer sitting with full functions instead of a one-day affair on May 18. “The cabinet meeting this morning is the last opportunity to spare the country from the twin ignominy of a one-day Parliament and the bad practice of emasculating and marginalising parliamentary oversight and scrutiny of government actions in the Covid-19 pandemic.
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