KUALA LUMPUR: "Am I a threat to the Dewan Rakyat when I cannot speak", asked Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Kamal.
The Machang MP said he is a legitimate member of parliament elected by the people, and questioned why he is being treated as any less.
“It would be excessive to even be barred from the public gallery,” he told a press conference in the Dewan Rakyat on Monday (Oct 21).
He claimed that in 2018, DAP's Lim Kit Siang was also suspended from the Dewan Rakyat for six months, but was allowed to sit in his own seat and listen to the proceedings but was not allowed to speak.
“So why am I barred completely from coming to Parliament to observe the proceedings,” he said.
Wan Ahmad Fayshal, who was slapped with a six-month suspension from the Dewan Rakyat, was seen attending the tabling of Budget 2025 while seated at the lower House’s public gallery.
The Bersatu Youth chief was suspended beginning July 18 after referencing a poison pen letter during debates on the Human Rights Commission report.
The letter had allegedly revealed the ‘mastermind’ behind the privatisation of Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) as an Employees Provident Fund (EPF) employee, alongside the individual's supposed ill-treatment of colleagues.
The suspension motion was tabled by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reforms) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said and put to a bloc vote.
110 MPs voted in favour while 63 opposed.
