
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, making the accusation, said the open split between Umno and PPBM, both partners in the PN government, showed that prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin had lost his parliamentary majority.
He said Malaysia was in a permanent state of political crisis for being in the hands of a minority government.
The loss of Muhyiddin’s majority had come despite PN having engineered defections of MPs from PKR, he said.
Lim said Muhyiddin’s government had been saved from losing a confidence vote only because of the suspension of Parliament under the state of emergency, and the presence of “a subservient Speaker, serving Muhyiddin’s interests more than the Parliament he has previously sworn to uphold and protect”.
He highlighted a list of issues, ranging from the economic recession, drop in foreign investment and tough penalties for movement control offenders, as showing PN’s failure in government.
Lim also attacked PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang, and former PKR deputy president Azmin Ali, who is now with PPBM and a senior minister.
He accused Hadi of hypocrisy in holding that people below 18 years were not mature enough to vote.
“PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang should explain why PAS has set the age limit for PAS members even lower, at 13 years,” said Lim. “18-year olds are not mature enough to vote, but 13-year olds are mature enough to be PAS members,” he said.
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