Speaker committing treason by ignoring rulers on RUU355, says Tawfik


THE Dewan Rakyat Speaker’s move to jump the RUU355 bill to the top of the order paper today is “treason” as it ignores the Malay rulers’ rights to be consulted before Islamic laws are made, a former member of parliament said today.

Mohamed Tawfik Ismail also accused Speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia of playing politics by ignoring the constitution, saying the decision to move the bill was “arrogance of the highest order”.


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