KOTA KINABALU: Sabah STAR is proposing that the Sabah assembly hold a special session to debate and resolve the words to be used in Article 1(2) and Article 160(2) of the Federal Constitution.
Sabah STAR president Datuk Seri Dr Jeffrey Kitingan said this was the best way forward because any changes to the wording of the Federal Constitution affecting the Bornean states should be agreed upon by the Sabah government and its legislative assembly, rather than the federal ministers.
"Any decision made by the Parliament that affects the Bornean states without the consent of the governments of Sabah and Sarawak would be illegitimate," he said in a statement here on Saturday . He said that only after the Sabah assembly had debated and unanimously decided on the proper wording to be used, then the decision should be conveyed to Parliament and the Federal Government.
"That is not the aspiration of Malaysia and it is not what our forefathers hoped for when they first agreed to this," Kitingan added.
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