KUALA LUMPUR: The Perikatan Nasional (PN) government will hold its first Cabinet meeting tomorrow to map out the direction for the country and the strategies to be adopted, Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah said today.
“The PM will call all the ministers and their deputies tomorrow to have intensive discussions on plans and policies for the future,” he said during a programme on RTM.
There are two alternatives for the new Cabinet, according to him – either take a holistic approach as a government or set their plans in clusters.
“This is a Cabinet that was formed without a manifesto. There’s good and bad to it as one, we’re not tied to anything but two, people are asking what are we planning to do,” Saifuddin said.
According to Malay Mail, Saifuddin also moved to allay fears that the current government is incapable of handling a weakening economy and a serious worldwide viral outbreak affecting businesses and daily life. Asked what he felt about the people’s fears on whether this new Cabinet can do its job he said: “I agree that we can’t be messing about.
“However, I also agree with Muhyiddin (Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin) that the people are fed up with politics. That’s why Muhyiddin was very smart in how he picked his Cabinet.
“Tengku Zafrul is someone who has handled finances for a bank that has a presence not just in Malaysia but in Asia too,” he said, referring to Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz.
“Then we have mufti Dzulkifli Mohamad who is a conservative and progressive man as the religious affairs minister. These are all steps taken to make us a functioning government that can handle matters.” – March 10, 2020
