Legally wrong for Azalina to temporarily chair Parliament session - Hanipa

Sepang MP Hanipa Maidin said it was legally wrong for Dewan Rakyat Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun to ask Pengerang MP Azalina Othman Said to chair yesterday’s Parliament sitting.

This is because Rule 6 of the Standing Orders states that if there is a vacancy in the deputy speaker positions, the House shall proceed to elect two “at the first convenient sitting of a newly elected House or at the commencement of public business at the first meeting of the House” after the vacancy occurred.

“In my view...