KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 13 — Perikatan Nasional’s (PN) Machang MP Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal said that the coalition is naming Tan Sri Mohd Radzi Sheikh Ahmad as their party's Speaker candidate.
"We’ve named Tan Sri Radzi (as our Speaker candidate),” Wan Fayshal during an interview with BFM radio this morning.
He added that he is interested to see how the voting for the Speaker would result as Parliament reconvenes on December 19 for the selection of a Speaker and a vote of confidence for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Last week, online news portal Malaysiakini reported that several names have been submitted by different parties as their Speaker candidate, which included PKR’s Gurun assemblyman Datuk Johari Abdul, Umno’s Cameron Highland MP Ramli Md Nor, and an unnamed DAP candidate.
Johari, who was ffered the post in 2018 but turned it down to retain his position in Kedah’s state assembly, then confirmed the news that his name is among the candidates that are proposed as the Speaker.
In a notice sent out to all MPs by Dewan Rakyat secretary Nizam Mydin Bacha Mydin on Dec 1 the first order of business on the first day of Parliament will be the election of the Speaker followed by the swearing-in ceremony of MPs.
