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KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The number of individuals, including Members of Parliament, allowed into the Parliament building at the first meeting of the fourth session of the 14th Parliament beginning Sept 6 will be decided soon, says Deputy Speaker Datuk Mohd Rashid Hasnon.
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Parliament was in lockdown when it was announced that two new Covid-19 cases had been detected and everyone was barred from leaving Parliament grounds pending RTK-Antigen saliva test.
PETALING JAYA: Confusion reigned in the Dewan Rakyat yesterday following several unprecedented abrupt adjournments in the wake of a royal rebuke of the government’s handling of the Emergency Ordinances.
And for several hours, Parliament was in lockdown when it was announced that two new Covid-19 cases had been detected and everyone was barred from leaving Parliament grounds pending RTK-Antigen saliva tests on all of them.
Chaos erupted just before lunch when Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim stood up to interrupt debates after a briefing by Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz on the government’s Covid-19 economic packages.The Port Dickson MP drew the House’s attention to a statement issued by the palace, voicing the King’s displeasure over the recent revocatio