No automatic right to sit in Dewan

PETALING JAYA: The Prisons Department has the sole discretion to decide whether or not to allow jailed MP Datuk Seri Najib Razak to attend Parliament, say senior lawyers.

Alhtough Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Azhar Azizan Harun has ruled that Najib is still Pekan MP and that his seat is not vacated, it did not automatically mean that Najib could attend Parliament, said Mohamed Haniff Khatri.