Sabah mulling dropping the term 'state' if amendment passed

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Sabah considering dropping the term 'state'

The Sabah government will consider dropping the term 'state' if the amendment to Article 1 of the Federal Constitution receives the support of elected representatives in Parliament.

"However, what is important now is getting the support first ," he told reporters after launching a special briefing on the Inland Revenue Board Special Voluntary Disclosure Programme in Kota Kinabalu today. On March 8, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Liew Vui Keong announced that the cabinet had agreed toThe agreement to amend the constitution had been made during a cabinet meeting, and is considered a major step towards realising MA63.

He said the state government understood and knew that Sabah and Sarawak were not yet nations, but territories with differences in terms of their autonomous positions, including the power of immigration and land taxation.

 

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