Ku Li drops 'love letters' in the Dewan Rakyat

 

Three days before the Budget 2021 goes to a vote, Umno Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah appears to be drumming up sentiment against Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

Several opposition MPs took to social media to show they had received a copy of his recent strongly worded protest letter to Dewan Rakyat Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun.

Muar lawmaker Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman said the letter was apparently shared with every MP during today’s Dewan Rakyat sitting.

“On the table of every MP is a 'love' letter from BN MP Tengku Razaleigh on the no-confidence vote against the prime minister,” Syed Saddiq posted on his Facebook, along with a photograph of the letter.

MPs Fahmi Fadzil (Lembah Pantai), Hasanuddin Yunus (Hulu Langat), Amin Ahmad (Kangar) and Chan Foong Hin (Kota Kinabalu) also said they received the same letter.

In the Nov 19 letter, Tengku Razaleigh criticised Azhar for not allowing Muhyiddin’s parliamentary majority to be tested.

He especially disagreed with the speaker’s proposal that he needed agreement from the government before he could table a no-confidence motion against the prime minister.

“Your suggestion that I get permission from the de facto Parliament and Law Minister (Takiyuddin Hassan) to allow the no-confidence motion to be debated ahead of ‘government business’ contravenes Article 43 of the Federal Constitution...,” the 11-term lawmaker said.

He stressed that Parliament ought to be independent of the executive branch of government, and said he was unable to participate in the Budget 2021 debate “as the government’s legitimacy had yet to be determined”.

Tengku Razaleigh is a backbencher in the Perikatan Nasional government and heads the Umno advisory council.

This is his second letter to the speaker on the no-confidence motion. - Mkini