Council proposal untenable and out of context

KUCHING: Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s recent proposal to form a National Operations Council (NOC), is untenable and oddly out of context. Sarawak People’s Aspiration Party (Aspirasi) president Lina Soo opined that the proposed council was not the way to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. She noted that it was in the interest […]

Setting up council will undermine emergency

KUALA LUMPUR: Calls by various quarters for the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to set up a body with absolute power such as the National Operations Council (NOC) are not suitable to be implemented at the moment, according to the prime minister’s principal private secretary. Datuk Dr Marzuki Mohamad said the proposal was a backward step which […]