Our Government to function as usual on advice by His Majesty Yang Di-Pertuan Agong

We welcome the good news of Yang di-Per­tuan Agong, Al-Sul­tan Ab­dul­lah Ri’ay­atud­din Al-Mustafa Bil­lah Shah who will de­cide when our Sarawak State Leg­isla­tive As­sem­bly (DUN) will be dis­solved.

This is after the virtual meeting session he had with our Right Honourable Chief Min­is­ter, Datuk Pat­inggi Abang Jo­hari Tun Openg on May 25 re­gard­ing the ten­ure of Sarawak's DUN and the com­ing 12th state elec­tion (PRN12).

Ac­cord­ing to our Chief Minister, he had in­formed Yang Di-Pertuan Agong that the ten­ure of our cur­rent state as­sem­bly ends on June 6, and the pro­vi­sion of the State Con­sti­tu­tion which re­quires the state elec­tion to be held a er the ex­piry of the state as­sem­bly.

In his state­ment, our Chief Minister had also ex­plained that fol­low­ing the dec­la­ra­tion of Emer­gency from Jan 11 to Aug 1 this year, the power to dis­solve the DUN is now with the King in con­sul­ta­tion with the Yang di-Per­tua Negeri, in line with Ar­ti­cle 13 and Ar­ti­cle 15 of the Emer­gency Or­di­nance (Es­sen­tial Pow­ers) 2021.

Thus, in line with the pow­ers of the Yang di-Per­tuan Agong, the Chief Min­is­ter has let it to the dis­cre­tion of the Yang di-Per­tuan Agong to de­cide the ap­pro­pri­ate date for the dis­so­lu­tion of the Sarawak DUN to­gether with His Ex­cel­lency Yang di-Per­tua Negeri of Sarawak after re­ceiv­ing ad­vice from the Attor­ney-Gen­eral, Elec­tion Com­mis­sion, Min­istry of Health, Royal Malaysia Po­lice, and the Malaysian Armed Forces. Syukur alhamdullilah, His Majesty Yang Di-Pertuan Agong has ad­vised, after look­ing at the rather wor­ry­ing sit­u­a­tion of Covid-19, for the state gov­ern­ment to func­tion as usual with the pow­ers un­der the Emer­gency Or­di­nance (Es­sen­tial Pow­ers) 2021.