YANG di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah today expressed disappointment by the statement made during the special Parliament sitting on Monday that the Government has revoked the six Emergency Ordinances introduced during the State of Emergency period.
His Majesty was referring to the statement made by de facto Law minister Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan who revealed during the special sitting that all the ordinances were in fact revoked on July 21.
In a statement issued by Comptroller of the Royal Household Datuk Ahmad Fadil Shamsuddin, the king has called Takiyuddin’s statement “inaccurate” and “misleading lawmakers in the Dewan Rakyat”.
His Majesty further asserted that the application to revoke the emergency ordinances was “hastily made without presenting it in Parliament”.
The contradictory and misleading statement in Parliament not only failed to respect the principle of the rule of law in the Rukun Negara, but also “disregarded His Majesty’s functions and powers as the head of state, as enshrined in the federal constitution”.
The country’s COVID-19 state of Emergency began on Jan 11 and was expected to end on Sunday Aug 1, 2021. – July 29, 2021
