PETALING JAYA: Barisan Nasional (BN) MPs have agreed to continue supporting the Perikatan Nasional-led government and Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin despite Umno’s decision to withdraw its support last night.
In a statement confirmed authentic by an aide to the new deputy prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, MPs said this was to prioritise the immediate needs of the people.
“In a situation where the country is facing a health and economic crisis, the survival of the people is far more important than chess (games) between political parties,” the unsigned statement said.
“The priority of MPs at the moment is the effort to ensure the goals of the National Recovery Plan are realised, so the people will go back to living life as per normal before the Covid-19 pandemi
“In this regard, the BN MPs support Muhyiddin Yassin as prime minister to continue the agenda to defend the people.”
MCA secretary-general Chong Sin Woon earlier told FMT his party would continue to support the PN administration until the next general election (GE15).
“Unless BN makes a new, official decision, MCA will continue to support PN till the next election, in line with BN’s decision before this,” he said.
MIC president S Vigneswaran said Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi should instruct cabinet members from his own party to step down from their roles before calling for Muhyiddin’s resignation.
To this end, he believed Umno’s push for Muhyiddin’s resignation would not succeed as none of the BN government ministers had agreed to let go of their posts.
“We will see what action Umno takes against its MPs who disagree with the Umno Supreme Council’s decision,” he told FMT.
Nazri said there are at least 32 Umno MPs who are still supporting the PN government but believes more may hop on after party president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s announcement, Sinar Harian reported.
“As far as I know, a total of 32 Umno MPs who follow the decision of the 2020 Umno General Assembly, which is to support the PN government until the dissolution of Parliament, is strong... It may even increase to 35 people,” the Padang Rengas MP was quoted as saying.
Umno has 38 MPs in the Dewan Rakyat currently.
Nazri added that some of the Umno MPs may even change their minds after their party’s supreme council meeting last night.
Umno sources told reporters that the meeting had been fraught and that there were members who disagreed with Ahmad Zahid, mostly those who were in the PN Cabinet. However, Malay Mail understands that they do not make up the majority of the Umno supreme council.
Nazri was reported saying that the Umno MPs who are likely to remain firm in withdrawing support for the Muhyiddin government may be limited to Zahid who is Bagan Datuk MP, Pekan MP Datuk Seri Najib Razak, Pontian MP Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan, Machang MP Datuk Ahmad Jazlan Yaakub, and Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.
But he reportedly said it was “useless” to divulge the number of Umno MPs who back the PN government now.
“We will prove our support for the PN government in the next parliamentary session,” he was quoted as saying.
He also dared the Umno supreme council to sack all 32 of its MPs “because we will definitely go all out about the decision”.
Nazri claimed Ahmad Zahid had an ulterior motive in making last night’s announcement on behalf of the Umno supreme council.
According to Nazri, Ahmad Zahid wanted to be deputy prime minister and was not satisfied that his vice-president Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob was given the role.
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Be patience, what i know is land office and MOT processing department only start back works at 1 July 2021. So hope got good news this 2 weeks loh. I hope the source i heard is correct ya.
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