PETALING JAYA: All the MPs who defied the Speaker’s directive to stop shouting and allow Waytha Moorthy to continue his reply in Parliament on Monday should be referred to the Committee of Privileges, Lim Kit Siang said today.
The DAP adviser said the behaviour of Umno and PAS MPs was the greatest disgrace in the half-a-century history of the Malaysian Parliament.
Such a dishonourable incident had never happened before in the Malaysian Parliament since 1959, Lim said.
“Has parliamentary standards in Malaysia degraded so much in the past half-a-century?” Lim asked in a statement today.
“Is the Malaysian Parliament next to graduate to fist-fights and physical attacks on the Speaker as happened in other Parliaments?
“What made Monday’s disgraceful incident in Parliament even more shocking is that some of the miscreant MPs were former Cabinet Ministers.”
Lim said it was sad that the MPs had never heard or understood the famous Voltarian saying: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
He added that the disgraceful parliamentary episode on Monday morning should never be allowed to happen again.
