Bukit Gasing rep submits motion on anti-party-hopping law

Bukit Gasing assemblyperson Rajiv Rishyakaran has submitted a motion to the Selangor state assembly which calls for politicians, who leave the parties they were elected under, to be required to automatically vacate their seats.

Rajiv told Malaysiakini that he submitted the motion under Standing Orders 26 (1) to the state assembly's secretary's office on June 26 via a letter which was marked received on June 29.

He said he was proposing that state laws be amended with...