Perak to table amendments to curb party hopping

IPOH: The amendment to the Perak constitution involving the anti-party hopping law will be tabled at the state assembly sitting next week.

Speaker Datuk Mohammad Zahir Abdul Khalid said the Supply Enactment 2023 or state budget would also be tabled.

He said the first meeting to be held on Monday (Dec 19) would see the election of the Speaker and his deputy while all 59 assemblymen will take their oaths.

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“Two Bills will be tabled on Tuesday (Dec 20),” he told a press conference on Friday (Dec 16).

Mohammad Zahir also said the Sultan of Perak Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah will open the assembly on Tuesday.

The sitting will continue until Dec 29 with oral questions, debates and tabling of other motions.

Mohammad Zahir said only one nomination each had been received for State Speaker and Deputy Speaker.

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He has been nominated to continue in his post, while Canning assemblyman Jenny Choy of Pakatan Harapan has been nominated as deputy.

He also said the assembly sitting this time will see 35 new faces among the 59 assemblymen.