'What the emergency brought: Higher Covid-19 cases and a constitutional crisis'

Iskandar Puteri MP Lim Kit Siang questioned if the Perikatan Nasional government, which sought for a proclamation of emergency to purportedly combat the Covid-19 pandemic, had been successful after six months with the wide-ranging power granted to it.

This is as the emergency, proclaimed on Jan 11, is set to expire tomorrow (Aug 1).

"Was the emergency a success in its intended objective?" he asked.

Lim noted that when the emergency was proclaimed...