IS one-day parliamentary sitting unconstitutional? was penned about a week ago.

I have since cringed at the thought of a legal challenge against the one-day parliamentary sitting. God forbids.

It is because that would have put the three branches of government – the executive, the legislature and the judiciary – in one sitting.

But it is happening. A legal challenge has indeed been filed against the prime minister and Dewan Rakyat speaker over the limiting of the May 18 sitting to just the royal address. 

The application, filed by lawyer R. Kengadharan and social activist D. Arumugam, seeks a high court declaration that the one-day sitting is unconstitutional.

All eyes will be on Malaysia, again. It is hoped that the legal challenge is not a protracted affair.

Perhaps the Yang di-Pertuan Agong could act under Article 130 of the federal constitution to refer to the Federal Court the effect of Article 55(1) and what constitutes a sitting of Parliament. – May 15, 2020.

* Hafiz Hassan reads The Malaysian Insight.

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