PETALING JAYA: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, has agreed to grant the opposition’s Tamat Darurat committee an audience to hand over a petition calling for the end to the emergency.
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Committee chairman Khalid Samad said he received the letter from Istana Negara today but no date for the audience has been set yet.
“We are confident that a date will be set soon to allow us to have an audience with the Agong and hand over the petition. The negative effects of the emergency are getting clearer every day,” the Shah Alam MP said in a statement today.
This comes two days after several opposition leaders went to the palace to hand over a memorandum requesting for an audience with the King.
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The aim of the audience is to inform the King of the negative impacts of the emergency and the need to call it off for the sake of the people.
Among those present were former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Amanah president Mohamad Sabu, Pejuang pro tem president Mukhriz Mahathir, PKR’s Tian Chua and Fahmi Fadzil and DAP’s Hannah Yeoh, Lim Lip Eng and Teresa Kok.
It was the second time that the Tamat Darurat committee had requested an audience with the King. The last attempt on March 26 was unsuccessful when they did not receive a reply from palace officials.-FMT