{"id":63547,"date":"2020-02-27T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=63547"},"modified":"2020-02-27T19:10:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T11:10:59","slug":"malaysian-parliament-to-hold-special-sitting-to-elect-new-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=63547","title":{"rendered":"Updated: Malaysian parliament to hold special sitting March 2 to elect new PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/mahathir-stimulus-package-1-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63546\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/mahathir-stimulus-package-1-1024x614.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/mahathir-stimulus-package-1-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/mahathir-stimulus-package-1-768x460.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/mahathir-stimulus-package-1.jpg 1839w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PUTRAJAYA, Feb 27 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; A special sitting of the Malaysian Parliament will be held on March 2 to determine the candidate who commands majority support to be the next prime minister, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interim Prime Minister said if the House fails to arrive at a decision, a snap election would be called.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dA snap election will be called if the March 2 special Parliament session fails to get the necessary majority to elect the PM,\u201d he told a news conference after unveiling the 2020 Economic Stimulus Package at Bangunan Perdana Putra here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Mahathir was asked on the outcome of the audience he had earlier today with\u00a0the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri&#8217;ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As you know, the King had\u00a0asked all Members of Parliament to give a statement\u00a0because they\u00a0have made\u00a0a statutory declaration (of support for Dr. Mahathir as prime minister) but he was not sure so he wanted them to make a statement in front of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;And, for two days &#8230;\u00a0the result is that he could not find anybody with a distinct majority\u00a0and, because he did not\u00a0get a\u00a0distinct majority, he said that the right forum would be the Parliament or Dewan Rakyat,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA, Feb 27 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; A special sitting of the Malaysian Parliament will be held on March 2 to determine the candidate who commands majority support to be the next prime minister, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The interim Prime Minister said if the House fails to arrive at a decision, a snap election would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":63546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318,297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63547"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}