PAKATAN Harapan leaders will meet Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob tonight before deciding its support for the controversial constitutional amendment that will be tabled in Parliament tomorrow.

The coalition was undecided on whether it would support the government’s proposed amendment to Article 10 (3) which will allow Parliament to limit the freedom association for elected lawmakers, various sources told The Malaysian Insight.

“We just received the blue bill for the constitutional amendment after 4pm today and there are still some concerns,” said one of the MPs after Pakatan held a meeting to discuss the amendment today.

As a result of that, Pakatan leaders will be meeting Ismail Sabri at a buka puasa function in Putrajaya to clarify the amendment, said the source.

Another source told The Malaysian Insight the existing wording of the amendment is “too open-ended”.

“We want it to specify the conditions where a elected lawmaker is bound by this amendment,” said the source.

“Pakatan MPs will decide after meeting the PM tonight,” he added.

At around 4pm today, the government sent out the blue bill (finalised version of the constitutional amendments) to MPs.

According to the bill, the government will amend Article 10 by inserting clause 3a.

The clause reads, “Notwithstanding paragraph c of Clause 2 and 3, restrictions on the right to form association conferred by Clause 1c relating to members in a political party of MPs and assemblymen may be imposed by federal law”.

Earlier today, electoral watchdog Bersih suggested a new article should be added to define party hopping, but also state that expulsion from a party is not part of this definition.

Critics have slammed this proposed amendment, saying it gives the government too much power to control political parties, while failing to specifically address the problem of party-hopping.

Pakatan has 89 lawmakers and their failure to vote tomorrow would result in Ismail Sabri failing to get the required two-thirds vote to amend the constitution. – April 10, 2022.