Published on: Tuesday, January 19, 2021
By: Malay Mail
Kuala Lumpur: Datuk Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan (pic) Monday filed a lawsuit against Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and the Malaysian government, in his bid to have the courts decide whether a Prime Minister who no longer has the majority support of MPs in the Dewan Rakyat can still advise the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to proclaim an Emergency or can still suspend Parliament sittings.
Khairuddin, who was a Batu Kawan Umno Vice-Chief until 2015, in his lawsuit asked the High Court in Kuala Lumpur to hear and decide four important constitutional questions.
Based on court papers sighted by Malay Mail, one of the questions asked by Khairuddin was whether advice – by a Prime Minister who had lost the confidence of the majority of the members of the Dewan Rakyat – to propose to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong for a declaration of Proclamation of Emergency is invalid and unconstitutional.