What’s next after the royal rebuke?


Chan Kok Leong

The Yang di-Pertuan Agong yesterday chided the Perikatan Nasional government for bypassing his office on the issue of revoking the Emergency Ordinances. The Prime Minister’s Office, however, defended its action, saying it had acted within the legally in revoking the ordinances. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, July 30, 2021.

IT is unprecedented for the king to issue such a sharp rebuke to the government.

Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah said the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government had tried to bypass his office on the issue of revoking emergency ordinances. In addition to which, the government had also failed to respect the Agong’s position as the supreme head of Malaysia.


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