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Key Highlights

• Umno tells Muhyiddin to resign
  
  
• Hybrid Parliament challenges
  
  
• Miti expands EMCO whitelist

Umno tells Muhyiddin to resign

The Umno supreme council has decided to retract the party's support for Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said Muhyiddin should resign and make way for an interim prime minister, who would serve until the country reaches "herd immunity" and a general election is called.

Zahid, who was previously linked to attempts by PKR president Anwar Ibrahim to capture Putrajaya, also said Umno would not support any efforts to install the opposition leader as prime minister.

The move came less than 12 hours after Umno vice-president Ismail Sabri Yaakob was appointed as deputy prime minister, a move that was supposed to placate the party.

However, it is not clear whether Ismail and other Umno MPs who are not in line with Zahid will, as commanded, retract support for the prime minister.

HIGHLIGHTS

	PM hopes PN will close ranks with DPM post The appointment was seen as an attempt to corner Zahid.
	PN components rally behind DPM Ismail Sabri He was appointed over more senior Umno leaders
	DPM thanks Zahid for 'support' But Ismail's appointment did not sway the supreme council.

Hybrid Parliament challenges

Senate President Rais Yatim said coming up with a plan for a "hybrid" Parliament has been challenging and the committee in charge has only completed 40 percent of the work thus far.

Among the key challenges is designing ways for the speaker to regulate the conduct of MPs and the executive participating in the parliamentary sittings remotely.

MPs can be a rowdy bunch and shouting matches in the Dewan Rakyat are not uncommon.

An aide to Prime Minister Muhyiddin assured that MPs would be able to debate and vote during the forthcoming five-day special Parliament sitting, but did not specify what exactly would be debated.

There's speculation the only debate and vote will be to amend rules to allow for a hybrid Parliament sitting.

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Miti expands EMCO whitelist

The International Trade and Industry Ministry has expanded the list of manufacturing industries that are allowed to operate in parts of Selangor currently under the enhanced movement control order (EMCO).

The whitelist now includes the electrical and electronics sector, aerospace, as well as "key" food and beverage manufacturers.

Previously only factories producing essential goods such as rice, bread, sugar, cooking oil, wheat, fresh milk, baby formula, medicine and face masks were allowed to operate in Selangor's EMCO areas.

Yesterday, it was reported that two electronic factories and one research division of a company in a non-essential sector, as well as a glovemaker, had obtained Miti approval letters to operate during the EMCO.

However, the ministry had said at the time that the letters are invalid as the EMCO SOPs take precedent.

HIGHLIGHTS

	Seremban placed under EMCO Localities in Sabah and Kelantan also locked down.
	Klang hospital puts canvas beds outside emergency dept The beds are for Covid-19 patients awaiting transfer.
	AstraZeneca shots used in M'sia valid for EU travel WHO-approved vaccines will also be valid.

A daily glance at Covid-19

• 7,097 new cases yesterday (June 7), the ninth-consecutive day where cases are above 6,000.
  
  
• Pahang is regressing with its 7-day case average rising above the Phase 2 threshold.
  
  
• There were 91 fatalities bringing the death toll to 5,768.
  
  
• For trends on daily cases, tests, hospital beds capacity, vaccination progress and more, follow our Covid-19 tracker.
  
  

What else is happening?

• The government agreed in principle to dispose of RM8.3 billion in Felda settlers’ loans through a conditional loan adjustment. It will reduce average repayment from RM800-RM1,000 to RM250-RM300 a month.
  
  
• Factory worker Kamarulnizam Ismail’s family was awarded RM250,000 damages for negligence and RM40,800 for dependency claim over his death in custody in 2014.
  
  
• Former minister Rafidah Aziz criticised the country’s unusually large number of private colleges, following reports on accreditation issues faced by Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (LUCT) students.
  
  
• A man lodged a police report claiming that he was given an “empty shot” of the Covid-19 vaccine at the Banting Hospital.
  
  
• Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak's 1MDB trial will be postponed after his lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah was put under quarantine, again.
  
  

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	'Cops could question any of us' Cops probing youth group over police brutality animation.

What are people saying?

	Solidarity needed to fight pandemic apartheid By Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury
	Vaccine equity: Equal access for all, really? By Zalina Ismail
	Azmin's policies will drive Covid-19 numbers up By Nathaniel Tan

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