KUCHING: Malaysia needs laws to allow for impeachment of an errant prime minister, opined Senate president Tan Sri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.
He said Malaysia currently does not have such a law, hence, it should be introduced.
The former law minister said countries like the United Kingdom already had such laws, where its former Prime Minister Tony Blair was impeached in 2004.
“We don’t have (impeachment laws). It should be introduced. It was done in England in the 1800s,” Wan Junaidi said at a forum titled “Political Stability in a Hung Parliament” held here yesterday (July 11).
While MPs across the divide were allowed to submit motions of no-confidence in the prime minister, he said the motion would never see the light of day since the government dictates the agenda of Parliamentary proceedings.
He opined that the government of the day might not allow such a motion to be tabled in the Dewan Rakyat, but it could be tabled as a private member’s bill.
“We should give some allowances for an MP to table the motion even if it may not be successful (or passed); but what is more important is that MPs have the chance to do so,” he added.
