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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 4 (Bernama) — After the 2021 Budget\npassed at the policy level, the allocation for 11 ministries was passed at\nthe committee level in the fifth week of the Dewan Rakyat (lower house of\nParliament) sitting after being debated, wound up and through a majority vote\nand bloc voting process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are MPs who described it as an 11-0 victory for the\nPerikatan Nasional (PN) government, after the 2021 budget allocation for all 11\nministries debated this week passed at the committee level, with four of them\nthrough a bloc voting process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Monday, the Supply Bill or Budget 2021 for the Prime\nMinister\u2019s Department (JPM) was passed at committee level through a bloc voting\nprocess which saw 105 MPs voting in favour of the bill, while 95 voted against\nit and 20 were absent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also passed, via bloc voting, in that day\u2019s sitting was the\nallocation for the Ministry of Finance (MOF) after 106 MPs voted for it,\n95 against and 18 absent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other two ministries whose allocations passed at\ncommittee level, through a bloc voting process, were the Ministry of Plantation\nIndustries and Commodities (108 MPs voted in favour; 95 voted against with\nseven absent), and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (110 in\nfavour; 104 against and six absent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, the allocations for seven others, namely, the\nForeign Ministry; National Unity Ministry; Agriculture and Food Industries\nMinistry; Rural Development Ministry; Energy and Natural Resources Ministry;\nDomestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry as well as Entrepreneur\nDevelopment and Cooperatives Ministry, were passed by a majority vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Budget allocations for 11 more ministries are scheduled to\nbe debated and passed at the committee level in next week\u2019s sitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among those expected to attract the attention of lawmakers\nis the allocation for Ministry of Health, to be debated on Wednesday (Dec 9),\nwhich has been one of the main focuses of the 2021 Budget, to address the\nCOVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apart from that, the allocation for the Ministry of Communications\nand Multimedia, on Thursday (Dec 10) is also expected to be hotly debated due\nto the allocation for the Department of Special Affairs (JASA) which has become\na dispute among MPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The government, however, agreed to rebrand JASA as the\nDepartment of Community Communications (J-KOM) with different roles and\nfunctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also in this week\u2019s sitting, Tasek Gelugor MP Shabudin\nYahya\u2019s mistake in the counting of the bloc votes to pass the budget for the\nMOF has caused a war of words among lawmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shabudin (Bersatu-Tasek Gelugor) who was responsible for\ncounting the votes for MPs in Bloc C, had miscounted the votes after ticking\nPadang Rengas MP Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz as being in favour of the budget,\neven though the latter was absent during the bloc voting on Tuesday (Dec 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mistake, disclosed to MPs through a Speaker\u2019s\nAnnouncement read out by Deputy Speaker Mohd Rashid Hasnon after Question Time,\nhowever, did not change the result of the bloc voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Dewan Rakyat session on that day also did not start\nsmoothly when the fire alarm went off and interrupted the sitting for about 15\nminutes, causing MPs and staff to be ordered out of the Parliament building as\na safety measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Parliament Security Division then conducted the\nnecessary inspection and found nothing untoward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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