NAJIB Razak has mocked Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s plan to reconvene the Parliament and said there was no need to form a bipartisan committee to have a meeting.

The former prime minister said all that was needed was a two-step move to reconvene.

“There’s no need to study anything. I’ll give a solution. Step 1. Send a notice to the (Dewan Rakyat) speaker to call for Parliament to reconvene. Step 2. Parliament reconvenes. Done,” the Pekan MP said in a Facebook post today.

Muhyiddin had said earlier today that a bipartisan committee comprising government and opposition representatives had been formed to look into important aspects before Parliament reconvenes. 

Muhyiddin said the committee would consider whether it should be a physical or hybrid parliamentary sitting.

“Whether it (the sitting) will be held hybrid or physical will be referred to the current Parliament Standing Orders,” he told reporters after visiting the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre vaccination centre today.

He said the government needed to scrutinise all matters to avoid problems after its implementation.

Najib said the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Malay rulers had called on the government to convene Parliament as soon as possible.

“The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and Conference of Rulers did not decree for you to set up a committee to study how to convene Parliament,” he said in the post.

Najib noted sarcastically in the post that if Putrajaya was unsure how to meet with 220 lawmakers, it can always learn from the many electronics, gloves and construction companies that were allowed to operate during the current lockdown.

“Parliament previously also convened when Covid-19 cases were in the thousands and none of the MPs had been vaccinated.

“Now, all MPs have already completed their second dose of vaccine,” he said. – June 20, 2021.