New EO on spending hints at extended emergency, says Guan Eng


The new emergency ordinance on spending gazetted yesterday grants the prime minister unfettered powers to the nation’s coffers, says Lim Guan Eng. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, April 1, 2021.

THE new emergency ordinance, which allows Putrajaya to spend the treasury’s consolidated funds without parliamentary oversight and scrutiny smacks of plans to get the current state of emergency nationwide extended beyond its August 1 expiry date, Lim Guan Eng said.

The DAP Secretary General said the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government knows it has to reopen parliament, currently suspended under the emergency, in order to seek approval for supplementary budgets.


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