Malaysia: Govt hits pause on deputy speaker election, to create third post first

• The Dewan Rakyat deputy speaker election has been postponed.
• De facto Law Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, justified the move by saying that the government wanted to amend the Federal Constitution – to create a third deputy speaker post.
• The election had been postponed to the next Parliament meeting, when Budget 2022 will be tabled.
• Creating a third post was one of the suggestions made by deputy speaker candidate Ahmad Maslan (BN-Pontian) – who wanted the extra post to be filled by the opposition.
• The opposition had wanted Nga Kor Ming (Pakatan Harapan-Taiping) for the post.
• Chaos broke out in Parliament over a motion to remove Dewan Rakyat speaker Azhar Azizan Harun, which had been previously rejected by his deputy Mohd Rashid Hasnon.
• The commotion culminated in Rashid kicking RSN Rayer (Harapan-Jelutong) out of the Aug 21 House for two days, after the latter called Rashid an “embarrassment” (memalukan).

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