PETALING JAYA: A Perikatan Nasional lawmaker has claimed that an offer to sign a confidence and supply agreement (CSA) was extended to opposition leader Hamzah Zainudin in exchange for parliamentary allocations.
However, Bersatu’s Ketereh MP Khlir Nor said the CSA involved backing Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s administration in return for allocations aimed at developing MPs’ constituencies, Utusan Malaysia reported.
“There has been an offer to sign an agreement in exchange for support, with conditions attached,” he was quoted as saying.
“If it’s simply about giving allocations, that’s fine, but the problem is, there are conditions. What if these conditions are stringent?”
Khlir also said opposition MPs have no intention of meeting with deputy prime minister Fadillah Yusof to negotiate for allocations as long as the government insisted on imposing conditions, including asking them to support them.
“Even if we want these allocations, we will only pursue them through a consensus within PN and not on an individual basis,” he said.
Last November, Anwar reportedly said there were no pre-conditions or conditions that support must be given to him to obtain allocations for opposition MPs.
He also previously said opposition MPs must negotiate with the federal government if they wanted to receive parliamentary allocations.
Anwar told opposition MPs to learn from how Pakatan Harapan MPs behaved when they were in the opposition, in response to claims that opposition MPs had not been given any allocations to help their constituents.
A CSA with opposition MPs was last signed during Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s administration. Ismail and three top PH leaders, who included Anwar, signed the pact and agreed on the importance of the independence of the judiciary, institutional reforms and good governance. - FMT
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