This comes after law minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar and Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, the chairman of the steering committee of the PH-Putrajaya memorandum of understanding (MoU), reached a consensus on the bill’s deferment.

They said the special sitting will be extended to Tuesday to make time for debates and the passing of the constitutional amendment.

The two leaders also said a separate special Dewan Rakyat sitting for the actual tabling of the anti-hopping bill will be held at a later date.

They added that an early draft of the constitutional amendment bill will be given to the MoU steering committee before it is tabled on April 11.

“Both sides have stated their commitment to lending their support to ensure that this bill can acquire a two-thirds majority during the special Parliament sitting on April 11 and 12.”

Wan Junaidi and Saifuddin said this in a statement today after a meeting at Hilton Kuala Lumpur this afternoon.

The meeting follows Wan Junaidi’s confirmation yesterday that the much-awaited anti-hopping bill, which was scheduled to be tabled on April 11, had been deferred again because the Cabinet did not agree on its tabling.

Prior to that, sources told FMT the Cabinet had asked for revisions to the anti-hopping bill and that Putrajaya was ironing out several issues, including what constituted party-hopping.

This latest delay in enacting an anti-hopping law prompted a handful of PH elected representatives to call for an urgent meeting by the opposition coalition on the MoU and for the pact to be scrapped altogether.

Under the government’s MoU with PH, it is stated that an anti-hopping bill must be tabled and passed in Parliament by the first Dewan Rakyat meeting of the year. The first meeting ended on March 24.

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