We need rules to allow impeaching PM, Wan Junaidi says

Raveena NagotraPublished: Jul 11, 2023 9:12 AM | Updated: Jul 11, 2023 12:53 PM

Senate president Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar called for the introduction of rules to impeach the prime minister when necessary.

“Impeachment of the prime minister, we don’t have in our rules. It should be introduced. It was done in England in the 1800s,” he said during a keynote address at the ‘Political Stability in Hung Parliament’ forum today.

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