Pandikar condemns no-confidence 'ambush'

comments     Alyaa Azhar     Published     Updated

Dewan Rakyat speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia expressed strong disapproval of former Terengganu menteri besar Ahmad Said’s motion of no confidence against the state’s incumbent menteri besar which was tabled at the Terengganu state legislative assembly sitting yesterday.

Pandikar said that it did not even cross his mind that a no-confidence motion against either the prime minister or a menteri besar can be tabled in a “modern democratic country” like Malaysia without a notice.

“Tabling a no-confidence motion is like an ambush: you table such a motion when you notice that there are absentees from the other side.

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