ALOR STAR – The Kedah government plans to table a motion on anti-party hopping bill at the next state assembly sitting.
Kedah assembly Speaker Datuk Juhari Bulat said that although Parliament had passed the anti-party hopping law and it came into force last October 5, there was still time for the state government to do so.
As such, he rejected a motion tabled by Derga assemblyman Tan Kok Yew to debate an anti-party hopping bill during the current sitting.
“The motion brought by Derga on anti-party hopping, although proper, is rejected by the speaker because it has yet to be enforced at the state level.
“The state has time to enforce the anti-party hopping bill...the state government wants to do it in a proper way,” he said before the start of the question-and-answer session at the sitting today.
The Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Negara passed amendments to the federal constitution to prevent party-hopping by MPs on July 28 and August 9, respectively.
Based on the government website, the law received the royal consent from the king on August 31 and was gazetted on September 6. – Bernama, October 31, 2022
