Speaker dismisses Anwar's motion to debate Pandora Papers


KUALA LUMPUR: Dewan Rakyat Speaker Datuk Azhar Azizan Harun has rejected a motion proposed by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to debate the Pandora Papers as being not urgent.

Although admitting that the expose, which revealed the offshore accounts involving former and current government and political leaders, was an important matter and of public interest, he argued that it could be discussed in other platforms such as the Parliamentary Select Committee.

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