Constitutional (Amendment) Bill 2019 in accordance with MA63 — Hafiz Hassan
Sipa considered the Constitutional Bill 2019 as a half-baked deal and deserved what it got — defeated at its second reading.
In simple words again, the Bill would have restored Article 1 of the Federal Constitution as it was in 1963, excluding Singapore of course. And let’s be mindful that Article 1 as it was in 1963 was amended into the Federal Constitution pursuant to the Malaysia Agreement of 1963 .
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