I will also resign if Bill is passed, says Gerakan chief


PETALING JAYA: Gerakan president Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong has become the second minister to announce that he would resign should the PAS’ Private Member’s Bill be passed in Parliament.

Mah, a Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, said the party was concerned over the Bill to confer open-ended sentencing powers on the Syariah Court, except on the death penalty.

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