When asked whether he thought Sarawak was to blame for placing their politics above the Bill, Shafie said he did not want to speculate. — Bernama pic
“This is the first step after 55 years to get something done and we can’t do it. To reinstate what is in the Malaysia Agreement is not so difficult because it is just to legitimise what has been spelt out in 1963 and putting it back in 2019 Constitution. It is not so difficult,” he said. “We wanted it but now that it’s in Parliament, we didn’t take it. There are some things we might not agree, but if we wait for 50 years, there will be a lot more to consider,” he said, explaining that the federal government was finally supportive of efforts to reinstate the two states’ rights, and Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had even made concessions to their requests during his winding-up speech in Parliament yesterday.
“I will reach out to them how to make sure it can be done. There are issues that they submitted to the committee that I agreed with without question. “We have to wait until the Prime Minister’s Office determines a time and date to sit down again. I am hopeful it will be during my term. “What really saddened me is that the Bill was there and we had our chance, but of course if you look into it, 138 voted for the Bill, and the rest abstained, meaning they didn’t reject, meaning they also didn’t vote for it,” he said.
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