{"id":63665,"date":"2020-02-28T16:56:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T08:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=63665"},"modified":"2020-02-28T17:22:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T09:22:55","slug":"political-parties-can-nominate-candidates-for-pm-post-says-istana-negara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=63665","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: No Parliament sitting on March 2, parties can nominate candidates for PM post, says Istana Negara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/king-istana-negara-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63666\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/king-istana-negara-1024x675.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/king-istana-negara-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/king-istana-negara-768x506.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 28 &#8212; The Malay Rulers of Malaysia gathered here early today to attend a special meeting to find a resolution to the ongoing political crisis in the country. Photo courtesy of BERNAMA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 28 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Istana Negara will give a chance to political parties with representatives in the Dewan Rakyat to nominate candidates for the post of prime minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A statement issued by the Comptroller of the Royal Household, Datuk Ahmad Fadil Shamsuddin, said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIstana Negara will contact the heads of political parties with representatives in the Dewan Rakyat to give them an opportunity to nominate\u00a0names of Dewan Rakyat members for the post of prime minister,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the statement,&nbsp;Ahmad Fadil also touched on the interview Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri\u2019ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah conducted with Members of Parliament over two days beginning Tuesday at Istana Negara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBased on the interview process, His Majesty has not yet gained confidence in any Dewan Rakyat member&nbsp;who, in his opinion, commands the majority support of Dewan Rakyat members to form the new government,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahmad Fadil also said Al-Sultan Abdullah had consented to the decision of Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof&nbsp;not to call for a special sitting of the Dewan Rakyat on Monday, March 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHis Majesty will continue with his efforts to find a solution that is consistent with the Federal Constitution for the sake of the people\u2019s well-being and our beloved country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 28 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Istana Negara will give a chance to political parties with representatives in the Dewan Rakyat to nominate candidates for the post of prime minister.\u00a0 A statement issued by the Comptroller of the Royal Household, Datuk Ahmad Fadil Shamsuddin, said today. \u201cIstana Negara will contact the heads of political parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":63666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318,291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63665"}],"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=63665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}