PAS today accused top BN leaders of insulting Parliament with their flippant attitude toward the recently announced select committee on electoral reform.
"Both Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and de facto Law Minister Nazri Aziz have insulted the August House," PAS vice-president Mahfuz Omar said.
Najib was being flippant toward the committee, he said, by declaring that the government was not bound to wait for the committee to complete its duties prior to the next general election, and had blatantly insulted Parliament with this statement.
"If they form the committee, which will be a part of Parliament, they should follow through out of respect for the parliamentary process. Or else, why go through the effort at all?" Mahfuz (left) said at a press conference at the party headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today,
He also said that Nazri, in defining the make-up of the committee and demanding that a minister head the body had pre-empted the privilege and right of Parliament to define the scope and form of any select committee.
"Only parliament can and should decide on this" he said.
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"Both Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and de facto Law Minister Nazri Aziz have insulted the August House," PAS vice-president Mahfuz Omar said.
Najib was being flippant toward the committee, he said, by declaring that the government was not bound to wait for the committee to complete its duties prior to the next general election, and had blatantly insulted Parliament with this statement.
"If they form the committee, which will be a part of Parliament, they should follow through out of respect for the parliamentary process. Or else, why go through the effort at all?" Mahfuz (left) said at a press conference at the party headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today,
He also said that Nazri, in defining the make-up of the committee and demanding that a minister head the body had pre-empted the privilege and right of Parliament to define the scope and form of any select committee.
"Only parliament can and should decide on this" he said.
[More to follow]
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