Winners and losers in Muhyiddin’s failed emergency bid


Chan Kok Leong

The Yang di-Pertuan Agong saved the day on Sunday when he declared there was no necessity for Malaysia to use the Emergency Ordinance to contain the Covid-19 pandemic and left the future of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and his Perikatan Nasional government hanging precariously. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, October 28, 2020.

THE weekend drama of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s bid to get a state of emergency enforced is over, but the saga of his government’s survival continues.

After consulting the Conference of Rulers on Sunday, Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah said the government was handling the Covid-19 pandemic adequately and did not see a need for emergency anywhere in the country.


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