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PKR MP is puzzled by MCA's continued boasting over Act 355
Published:  Apr 12, 2017 2:56 PM
Updated: 7:48 AM

PKR's Alor Setar MP Gooi Hsiao Leung said he is utterly puzzled by MCA leaders who continue to boast about their ability to oppose amendments to the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 or Act 355.

The motion was tabled in Parliament by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang last Thursday but the debate was deferred to the next sitting in July.

Gooi said recently these leaders, including their president Liow Tiong Lai, have been issuing self-praising statements, celebrating and congratulating themselves on a job well done.

He said they deem themselves successful in opposing the amendments tabled by Hadi.

"I am totally puzzled as to what MCA is celebrating about when it was they and other BN component parties, in government, who had paved the way clear for Hadi to table his motion to amend Act 355 in Parliament in the first place.

"Let us be unmistakably clear, the BN government as gatekeepers, were the only ones with the keys to unlock the doors of Parliament in allowing Hadi to pass through and table his motion," Gooi said in a statement...

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