{"id":63864,"date":"2020-03-01T14:10:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T06:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=63864"},"modified":"2020-03-01T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T06:30:50","slug":"ph-wants-parliament-sitting-to-resume-on-march-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=63864","title":{"rendered":"PH Wants Parliament Sitting To Resume On March 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br> KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The Pakatan Harapan (PH) Presidential Council has requested the first session of the third term of Parliament to resume on March 9 as scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The council in its statement Sunday said the request was supported by 112 members of parliament (MPs). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the best opportunity to determine the support towards the prime minister and subsequently end the current political crisis,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in its meeting Sunday, the council has appointed Saifuddin Nasution Ismail as its new secretary-general, to replace Saifuddin Abdullah who quit the party on Feb 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday morning, Dr Mahathir Mohamad claimed that Muhyiddin Yassin was not the rightful prime minister as the latter did not have the majority support in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Mahathir, the former interim Prime Minister, told a press conference that he had the majority support of 114 Members of Parliament, drawn from his coalition Pakatan Harapan, Warisan and several Independent MPs, some from his own party Bersatu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, Dr Mahathir said his supporters would request for an urgent sitting of Parliament to gauge who has the majority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The Pakatan Harapan (PH) Presidential Council has requested the first session of the third term of Parliament to resume on March 9 as scheduled. The council in its statement Sunday said the request was supported by 112 members of parliament (MPs). \u201cThis is the best opportunity to determine the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":63627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63864"}],"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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}