Speaker denies breaking promise to opposition MPs

PARLIAMENT | Dewan Rakyat speaker Johari Abdul today denied that he broke his promise to allow opposition MPs to speak on an emergency motion to discuss the court ruling granting Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA).

He said that he did not make such a promise to allow the opposition representatives to debate on the motion after Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim had presented the mid-term review...