IPOH: Perak Deputy Speaker Hee Yit Foong has maintained that she had the power to take over proceedings from ousted Speaker V. Sivakumar during Thursday’s sitting.
“When the Speaker is unable to handle the proceedings and the assembly reaches a deadlock, I have the power to take over as provided under Article 36A(1)(b) of the Perak Constitution,” she told a press conference yesterday.
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