Umno Youth: Give us wartime unity cabinet headed by non-controversial individual

Umno Youth leader Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki has called for a wartime unity government to be led by a "non-controversial, unthreatening individual" with no long-term designs on building a political power base.

In a statement today, Asyraf did not name a specific individual that would meet such criteria but did indicate that any interim prime minister should have a limited mandate related to the country's recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

"If Muhyiddin Yassin resigns today, as required by Article 43 (4) of the Federal Constitution after having lost majority support, then the power to appoint...