PKR vice-president Chang Lih Kang is calling on all quarters to give time to the unity government to carry out reforms in the country’s administration. 

Chang who is also Science, Technology and Innovation Minister said it is still too early to say reforms suggested by Pakatan Harapan (PH) for the government had fizzled out.

“The government is still young, so some reforms have not yet been implemented. Give us time, assess us after the first term, I feel it is too premature to say reforms are dead,” he told reporters after the closing ceremony of InnoEx 2023 in Cyberjaya today. 

Chang was commenting on the statement of Perikatan Nasional (PN) youth chief Ahmad Fadhli Shaari who described the reforms championed by PH had gone up in smoke with the court’s decision giving a discharge not amounting to acquital (DNAA) to Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi who is also the Umno president on Monday. 

The DNAA decision on Zahid over 47 charges of criminal breach of trust, corruption and money laundering involving funds owned by Yayasan Akalbudi came after Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah allowed the application of deputy public prosecutor Mohd Dusuki Mokhtar who announced the Attorney-General’s Chambers’ decision to stop all proceedings against Zahid.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim stressed that he did not give any instruction to Attorney-General Idrus Harun regarding the case. – Bernama, September 9, 2023.