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PH edges closer to two-thirds majority

Feb 13, 2019

The Pakatan Harapan government is edging closer to a two-thirds majority.

It comes after six independent MPs -who won their seats as BN candidates in GE14 - jumped ship to BERSATU, which now has 22 MPs.

Image: The Star

This means that Pakatan Harapan and Parti Warisan Sabah now have 134 lawmakers - just 14 shy of two-thirds majority in Parliament.

The Prime Minister has always maintained that a supermajority is important to the PH government in order to amend the Federal Constitution and to fulfil the key reforms promised by them.

If this is achieved, then things like imposing a term limit on the Prime Minister or even making the MACC accountable to the Parliament could be made possible.

Hope for detained Malaysians

There's still hope for the 47 Malaysian detained in Cambodia to be released.

Image: NST

This, after a Cambodian minister met all the detainees personally to see for himself the plight that they are in.

He has agreed to bring the matter up to the Cambodian Prime Minister soon and will try to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

The detainees, mainly from poor families, were reported to be victims of a job scam. 

They were promised high-paying jobs there, but instead they were accused for being part of a gambling syndicate.

Beware travel scams

Image: The Star

MATTA has urged consumers to be wary of cheap travel packages.

It advised travellers to do their research first before signing up for travel packages offered online such as through social media.

Recently, a 120 people were left stranded in KLIA and lost over 810 thousand ringgit collectively due to a travel package scam.