The ex-Sabah CM now wants the IGC to replace the Cabinet Committee on the MA63

KOTA KINABALU: Former Chief Minister, Yong Teck Lee, called for the creation of an Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) after the government decided to create a Parliamentary Selection Committee (SPC) for the implementation implementation of the 1963 Malaysia Agreement.

Yong said the IGC should replace the current Cabinet Committee on the MA63, dominated by the federal government, so that the governments of Sabah and Sarawak can submit their respective proposals.

"Such an IGC would allow the governments of Sabah and Sarawak to express themselves without fear or favor.

"This is instead of being force-fed by the federal Attorney General's Chambers when drafting bills on amendments to the constitution," said the president of SAPP in a statement today.

While the SAPP welcomed the announcement of the PSC by de facto law minister Liew Vui Keong, Yong said that it was not necessary to put so much time to put in place .

"This committee is long overdue because the current cabinet committee, composed solely of government representatives chaired by the prime minister, is by nature unprepared to hear uncomfortable truths," he said. .

He added that opposition MPs from Sabah and Sarawak had already proposed the SGP when he objected to the proposed amendment to Article 1 (2) of the Convention. Federal Constitution when a bill had recently been introduced to Dewan Rakyat.

Yong said the fiasco related to the failure of the adoption of the amendment could have been avoided if the government had been wise to send the bill back to a PSC, instead of sending the bill to a PSC, instead of sending the bill to the PSC. try to impose it on reluctant and unconvinced MPs.

"MPs like Chan Foong Hin, MP for Kota Kinabalu, had demanded that all MPs from Sabah and Sarawak support the original bill, otherwise it would mean the" end of MA63 committees. " They will now have to eat their words.

"It seems that these government deputies have become" yes-men ".

"On the other hand, the members who had resisted the original, empty and meaningless bill were right to abstain when they were called to vote in Parliament. The Sarawakians were right.