Opposition Wants Finance Minister To Table New Budget
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 (Bernama) -- Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim Monday asked Finance Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to table a new budget or make amendments to the original before it is debated in the Dewan Rakyat.
According to him, the budget tabled by Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who was also Finance Minister then (in August), was no longer relevant as a result of the financial crisis the world and Malaysia was facing now.
Debating the Supply Bill 2009, Anwar asked the government to gather together the top economic experts in the country, especially from the Treasury, Economic Planning Unit and Bank Negara, to review the situation and put the economy back on track.
"It's not that we (opposition) want to reject the budget that has been tabled but only want the figures to be relooked, and I know, those who came up with the figures are prepared to do it," said Anwar, who himself was a finance minister once.
He then asked Deputy Speaker Datuk Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar whether he should continue with the debate to which Wan Junaidi replied in the affirmative and invited the Opposition to table an alternative budget later if they had one.
Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timur) next joined the fray and asked for the current debate on the budget be adjourned until a new budget was presented.
The Deputy Speaker overruled his request.
THAT'S WHAT NAJIB SHOULD DO FIRST. HIS SUGESTION HAS BEEN DONE BY MAHATHIR BEFORE.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 (Bernama) -- Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim Monday asked Finance Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to table a new budget or make amendments to the original before it is debated in the Dewan Rakyat.
According to him, the budget tabled by Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who was also Finance Minister then (in August), was no longer relevant as a result of the financial crisis the world and Malaysia was facing now.
Debating the Supply Bill 2009, Anwar asked the government to gather together the top economic experts in the country, especially from the Treasury, Economic Planning Unit and Bank Negara, to review the situation and put the economy back on track.
"It's not that we (opposition) want to reject the budget that has been tabled but only want the figures to be relooked, and I know, those who came up with the figures are prepared to do it," said Anwar, who himself was a finance minister once.
He then asked Deputy Speaker Datuk Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar whether he should continue with the debate to which Wan Junaidi replied in the affirmative and invited the Opposition to table an alternative budget later if they had one.
Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timur) next joined the fray and asked for the current debate on the budget be adjourned until a new budget was presented.
The Deputy Speaker overruled his request.
THAT'S WHAT NAJIB SHOULD DO FIRST. HIS SUGESTION HAS BEEN DONE BY MAHATHIR BEFORE.
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