DEWAN Rakyat Speaker Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof said he will be communicating with newly appointed Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on whether the lower house sitting on March 9 will proceed or be postponed.

He said he would be writing an official letter to the prime minister on the matter tomorrow.

“Tomorrow, I will be writing to the prime minister to seek further information as to when the Dewan will sit before making an announcement.

“Just wait, I myself do not know because I don’t decide the dates for Dewan Rakyat sittings,” he said when met by reporters after attending the swearing-in ceremony of Muhyiddin as the eighth prime minister at Istana Negara today.

Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah is scheduled to open the upcoming parliamentary session but the sitting may not take place on that date due to the change in government today.

Muhyiddin leads a new coalition government following the collapse of the Pakatan Harapan government last Monday. – Bernama