MP: Pressure PM to amend constitution on citizenship for overseas-born kids

Women leaders in government today should pressure Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob into amending the Federal Constitution and granting Malaysian mothers equal rights to provide citizenship to their overseas-born children with foreign fathers.

Batu Kawan MP Kasthuri Patto said this was contrary to Wanita BN's pledge that the matter - now pending a final decision by the Federal Court - has been included as part of the coalition's manifesto for the upcoming 15th general elections.

"There's a difference between us in the opposition a...