Carian mengenai topik bloc-voting

Several members of Parliament today suggested that improvements be made to the bloc voting system in the Dewan Rakyat to ensure a conclusive decision is made.

Warisan lawmakers' absence from today’s bloc votes in the Dewan Rakyat was a deliberate move to display their frustration with opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Speaking to Malaysiakini, party whip Rozman Isli said he and his colleagues are in Kuala Lumpur but had decided to skip the voting sessions to “send a signal” to Pakatan Harapan.

Dewan Rakyat Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun has clarified that the Covid-19 prevention measure to only allow 80 MPs in the Dewan Rakyat at one time will not be enforced when a bloc voting is called.  

A total of nine measures were read out by Deputy Speaker Abdul Rashid Hasnon this morning and Azhar further responded to queries by MPs, including RSN Rayer (Pakatan Harapan-Jelutong), on the matter.

Rayer had questioned the uneven number of 41 government MPs to 39 opposition MPs and Azhar reiterated it was a consensus reached among party whips present during a meeting held yesterday.

Azhar Azizan Harun announced after the two bloc voting that a total of 111 elected representatives supported, 108 did not support, while one was absent.

The motion for a vote of no-confidence and the allocation of several ministries passed at the committee stage through bloc voting were the focus of the Dewan Rakyat sitting this week.

Tasek Gelugor MP Datuk Shabudin Yahya's mistake in the counting of the bloc votes caused a war of words among the lawmakers at the Dewan Rakyat sitting today.

Opposition Leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has admitted to making the decision in asking the opposition party Whip chiefs not to support the 2021 Budget bloc vote in the Dewan Rakyat on Thursday.

The Supply (Reallocation of Appropriated Expenditure) Bill 2020 was today approved at the policy stage through bloc voting at the Dewan Rakyat sitting.

Perhaps because it has been a while since the Parliamentarians debated, the MPs, both in the opposition and government blocks, were clambering to give their views.

Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail admitted that the internal conflicts within the opposition block has hampered the process of bloc voting is taken for Budget 2016 in the Dewan Rakyat.