⁍ Malaysian PM Muhyiddin Yassin faces calls to resign after the king rejected his request to declare a state of emergency to fight the coronavirus epidemic.
⁍ Critics accused him of using a pretext to suspend parliament and avoid a test of his razor-thin parliamentary majority.
⁍ King Al-Sultan Abdullah’s refusal is seen further eroding Muhyiddin’s grip on power.
– Malaysia’s king has rejected Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s request to declare a state of emergency to deal with the H1N1 virus. The ruling coalition has a slim majority in parliament, and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim says he has the support to form a new government, Reuters reports. Muhyiddin, however, is facing calls to step down from within his own party and from the opposition. “The people’s wellbeing is more important. By right, Muhyiddin should step down,” a party leader said.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/malaysia-politics/malaysias-pm-faces-calls-to-quit-after-failed-bid-for-emergency-rule-idUSKBN27B097