Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has defended himself for assuming the mantle of women, family and community development minister, instead of appointing a woman parliamentarian to the portfolio.
"This is only temporary. When we win the next election, we will put a woman minister in my place," he told the Dewan Rakyat this morning during Question Time.More important than who is the minister, he said, are the running of the ministry’s programmes and their effectiveness in improving the situation of women and other constitutents.
"The development of women has reached record levels of success under (our watch)," he claimed.
Najib was replying a supplementary question by Zuraida Kamaruddin (PKR-Ampang, left) as to why - in spite of the policy to ensure that women hold 30 percent of decision making positions - a man heads the ministry responsible for implementing that policy."You can't even put a woman in that ministry. There are many women representatives who are qualified for the role. This is making a mockery of women," Zuraida said.
The post was vacated by Shahrizat Abdul Jalil on the heels of public outrage surrounding the RM250 million government soft loan to National Feedlot Corporation, which is run by her husband and children.
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