Pakatan Harapan urges Pandikar Amin to resign

Pakatan Harapan is urging Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia to resign from his position for allegedly failing to carry out the institution's reformation.

Pakatan Harapan secretary-general Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah said Pandikar had "missed the opportunity" to make Parliament more efficient when the Cabinet Committee rejected the proposal to set up Parliament Select Committees.

"On top of that, Pandikar has also indicated that he wants to be actively involved in politics.

"With that intention, he can no longer be accepted as someone who is apolitical. So, he does not fit to be the Dewan Rakyat speaker," he said at a press conference at PKR headquarters here today.

Last year, Pandikar said the government had agreed to several parliamentary reforms.

The reforms are shortening notice time to 10 days from 14, the setting up of a special chambers to hear application of motions and a Ministerial Question Time.

The Cabinet is still debating on the proposal to form new committees over and above existing ones.