Tasek Gelugor MP told to explain calculation blunder

TASEK Gelugor MP Datuk Shabudin Yahaya has been asked to provide an explanation for his calculation blunder earlier this week.

In a letter, Dewan Rakyat Speaker Datuk Azhar Azizan Harun asked Shabudin to explain and provide supporting documents or evidence to support his explanation over the fiasco that took place on Nov 30.

Lembah Pantai MP Fahmi Fadzil had initially written a letter on Dec 1 to Azhar to cite Shabudin to the Rights and Privileges Committee for taking into account the vote by Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz.

Nazri, who is the Padang Rengas MP, was not present during the bloc voting process on the allocations for the Finance Ministry on Monday.

“YB Lembah Pantai considers the incident as a disrespect to the Dewan Rakyat under Standing Order 36(12).

“As such YB (Shabudin) would need to provide an explanation on this and provide evidence or supporting documents for the explanation, ” read the letter by Azhar.

Earlier in the day, Fahmi had submitted a motion under Standing Order 18 (12) to cite Shabudin to the Rights and Privileges Committee, however Azhar rejected it.

Azhar explained that the motion was rejected as Shabudin had admitted to his mistake and apologised to the House on Tuesday (Dec 1) for the incident.

“I have also made an announcement in the Dewan Rakyat on the matter and improvement measures on the bloc voting process is also being implemented to avoid the repeat of such incidents.

“Therefore, after reading the content of the motion filed by YB (Fahmi Fadzi), it is not one that needs to be expedited, as such I am rejecting the motion in chambers, ” said Azhar in his earlier letter to Fahmi.

Fahmi had filed a motion against Shabudin after the latter had admitted that he had accidentally marked Nazri as voting but it was later discovered that Nazri was not present for the bloc voting.

The following day, Deputy Speaker Datuk Mohamad Rashid Hasnon announced the correction in the result of the bloc voting.