PETALING JAYA: The bipartisan memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between Pakatan Harapan and the federal government and not Umno, says Khalid Abdul Samad.
The Parti Amanah Negara communications director was commenting on the Umno supreme council’s choice to not proceed with the MOU after it expires on July 31.
“Therefore, any decision to continue or discontinue the MOU depends on the Prime Minister (Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob) and not the Umno supreme council,” he mentioned in a press release on Friday evening (April 15).
He mentioned Pakatan is upholding the dedication in the direction of the MOU as per the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s decree for political stability to permit the federal government to deal with efforts to battle Covid-19, financial restoration and restore the folks’s well-being.
He mentioned with that spirit, Pakatan has known as for initiatives equivalent to Anti-Hopping Law, allocation for folks’s welfare and the strengthening of the Covid-19 plan to make sure that the purpose of political stability and the folks’s well-being will be achieved.
On Umno’s choice to retain Ismail as their prime minister candidate after the fifteenth General Election, Khalid mentioned he hoped occasions that transpired after the Johor elections would not recur – particularly when Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi was sworn in as Mentri Besar despite the fact that Datuk Seri Hasni Mohammad was the preliminary candidate for the publish.
The MOU was signed on Sept 13, 2021 and might be in impact till July 31.
