SINGAPORE GETS TO SEE THE UGLY FACE OF UMNO – AND NOH OMAR THOUGHT HE WAS BEING SMART: ‘MR TAN IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME – BUT IT GAVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW MALAYSIA’S PARLIAMENT WORKS’ – ARIFF TELLS COUNTERPART

DEWAN Rakyat Speaker Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof said his Singapore counterpart, Tan Chuan Jin, was “in the wrong place at the wrong time”, following a commotion in the House today.

Ariff assured Tan and his delegation that it was not an everyday scene in Malaysia’s Parliament.

“I can assure you, Mr Tan, and the rest of your delegation, that it doesn’t happen daily. You were, as they say, in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“But, it gave you an idea of how the Malaysian Parliament could look like, which could give the speaker a hard time sometimes,” he said in a speech at the Speaker’s Lecture Series: Governance in Singapore – A Parliamentary Perspective, held in the Parliament building.

A shouting match had erupted between Pakatan Harapan and Barisan Nasional MPs over Tanjung Karang lawmaker Noh Omar’s three-day suspension.

– Bernama