THE heads of nine royal households are expected to hold a special meeting on June 16, a week after Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah has met the heads of political parties, said Singapore’s The Straits Times.

Quoting sources from political and royal households, the report said the special meeting at Istana Negara will be on the worsening Covid-19 situation.

The meeting was decided last week amid the deepening Covid-19 crisis in the country, issues with the vaccination programme and calls for an end to the state of emergency and Parliament to reconvene.

“This is not a Conference of Rulers session but a special emergency meeting,” a source told The Straits Times.

This comes after several news portals, including The Malaysian Insight, reported that the king will be meeting the heads of political parties from Wednesday till Friday.

Quoting sources from PKR, The Straits Times said the party has acknowledged “there have been engagements with the palace” in recent days but declined to confirm whether a meeting with the king had been scheduled for this week.

“Things are very fluid and best to wait until Wednesday,” one senior aide to Anwar Ibrahim told the daily.

This will be the first time the rulers are meeting following the cancellation of the Conference of Rulers meeting on February 24, due to the second movement-control order (MCO 2.0).

The Conference of Rulers meeting, which is held three times a year, is now set for June 30. – June 7, 2021.