KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 – Malaysia’s King Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah on Thursday revealed that he had not consented to revoke the country’s emergency ordinances, and criticised the government for announcing a revocation without following constitutional procedure. In a statement issued by the Comptroller of the Royal Household Indera Ahmad Fadil Shamsuddin, Sultan Abdullah said he had consented to the proposal to revoke emergency laws being only presented and debated in Parliament by lawmakers. Malaysia’s de facto law minister Takiyuddin Hassan surprised the country on Monday (July 26) when he revealed that the Cabinet had agreed to revoke the emergency ordinances – which were put in place to aid the country’s Covid-19 crisis – effective last week.
