Name another country that has suspended Parliament, Najib tells finance minister
Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today challenged Finance Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz to name another country that has suspended its Parliament for seven months.
(MMO) – Najib, who is Pekan MP, was responding to the senator’s recent comparison of Malaysia’s Covid-19 situation to other countries which similarly declared a state of Emergency.
“Emergency in other countries meant that power was given to the government to exercise lockdown as they do not have Acts like us that could exercise lockdown without declaring a state of Emergency.
“Their Parliament was never suspended. Malaysia is the only county in the world that used Covid-19 to suspend Parliament,” Najib said in a Facebook post today.
He said Tengku Zafrul’s comparison was inaccurate.
The finance minister yesterday said that Malaysia was only one of 80 countries, or almost half of the world, that proclaimed Emergency to battle Covid-19.
Najib suggested that Tengku Zafrul was less than “honest” in giving a full picture of the situation.
“Need to be honest, bro.
“Other countries would be losing out if they didn’t suspend Parliament if this move indeed helps to strengthen the economy.
