Speaker rejects 17 private member’s bills on overseas-born children

Dewan Rakyat speaker Azhar Azizan Harun has rejected 17 MPs in each of their bids to file a private member’s bill to Parliament for a constitutional amendment allowing citizenship to children born overseas to Malaysian mothers.

In a media statement today, Pengerang MP Azalina Othman Said, who is also chair of the Parliamentary Special Select Committee for Women and Children Affairs and Social Development, said the committee was willing to bring this matter to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong....