KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof denied all claims made by the opposition leader regarding an MoU draft regarding allocations for opposition MPs.

He said this today while releasing two drafts of the memorandum of understanding between the unity government and opposition members of parliamant.

"By exposing this MoU (drafts), the people could evaluate how all the claims made by the opposition leader (Datuk Seri Hamzah zainuddin) about the drafts were absolutely without basis," he said in a statement.

The draft under "Lampiran B" given by Fadillah said that opposition MPs from Perikatan Nasional must declare their assets, abide by Seven Principles of Public Life, avoid uttering seditious remarks touching on 3R (royalty, race and religious issues, among other things.

The draft also said if PN MPs signed and agreed to the MoU en bloc, the MoU would be enforced until the dissolution of the 15th Parliament or until Dec 19, 2027, whichever came first.

There was no mention of an obligation for PN MPs to support the government until the end of the 15th Parliament term.

Fadillah said the MoU is controlled and interpreted by Malaysian laws, and that it was not under any official secrets clause.

https://www.nst.com.my/news/politics/2024/09/1106434/dpm-fadillah-reveals-drafts-government-opposition-mou