PETALING JAYA: Any party may claim that they have the majority support of parliamentarians to form the government, but experts have cautioned that the prerogative to decide on this rests solely with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
Constitutional expert Emeritus Prof Datuk Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi (pic) said that there was no automatic assumption of helming the prime minister’s post by gaining a majority of Members of Parliament, even if the “majority is a fact”.
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