‘We tabled citizenship bill to give M’sian mothers equal rights’

INTERVIEW | While acknowledging brickbats surrounding the proposed citizenship law amendments, Youth and Sports Minister Hannah Yeoh was adamant that the part of it which gives equal rights to Malaysian mothers regarding overseas-born children was a positive move.

“Nothing can change the fact that it was the coalition government that tabled the bill in the Parliament to give Malaysian mothers the equal opportunity and right to confer citizenship on their overseas-born children.

“We managed to table the bill. So, for that, I’m very pleased that there was political will to bring it (to the Parliament),” Yeoh told Malaysiakini in an exclusive interview at her ministry last Thursday.

Recollecting her early days as a full-fledged minister, Yeoh vividly recalled how...