Malaysia’s king on Wednesday (June 16) said parliament should urgently reconvene to debate the government’s Covid-19 exit strategy, in a seeming contradiction of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s assertion that the legislature could not sit again until September at the earliest.
Concurrently, the heads of the country’s nine hereditary royal households said in a collective statement that an ongoing state of emergency that expires on August 1 should not be extended.
Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah’s statement followed an ad-hoc meeting of the sultans and regents that was convened amid rising anger against the government over its handling of the public health crisis.
The Muhyiddin administration has faced sharp criticism for a litany of issues including a failure to…
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