PARLIAMENT | UPDATED 6PM | The Senate today passed the bill to amend the Federal Constitution in line with the provisions in the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) with a more than two-thirds majority.

Forty-nine senators voted in favour of the bill in a bloc voting after the second and third reading, while five others were absent.

Senate president Rais Yatim said the bloc voting was done as Article 159 of the Federal Constitution stated that such a bill shall not be passed unless it has been supported on the second and third readings by the votes...