OPPOSITION lawmakers staged a walkout at the Dewan Rakyat in protest after their emergency motion to debate the issue of targeted withdrawals from the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) was rejected.
Among those who walked out of the Lower House were Opposition leader Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin , Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad , Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim , and Datuk Awang Hashim .
“However, there are still many complaints from the rakyat and they are still unhappy with the response by the minister and deputy minister.However, Deputy Speaker Alice Lau cited Standing Order 43, saying that the Speaker’s decision was final.Lau told Shahidan, who also asked that the issue be discussed, that the matter had been decided.Despite this, several Opposition MPs asked for the matter to be debated.
However, they returned less than 30 minutes later after holding a short press conference at the lobby. “The backbenchers said we weren’t asking questions in the Dewan Rakyat. We are raising an important motion here now and yet it was rejected,” he said.
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