{"id":23658,"date":"2021-08-16T17:44:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T09:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=23658"},"modified":"2021-08-16T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T10:21:11","slug":"mahiaddin-took-the-correct-constitutional-step-by-resigning-as-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/mahiaddin-took-the-correct-constitutional-step-by-resigning-as-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahiaddin took the correct constitutional step by resigning as Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Press statement&nbsp;by&nbsp;DAP Secretary-General and MP For Bagan, Lim Guan&nbsp;Eng&nbsp;In Kuala Lumpur On 16 August 2021:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/C9CA647B-2FB4-4CDA-84EE-DF4EBFBBA872-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/C9CA647B-2FB4-4CDA-84EE-DF4EBFBBA872-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/C9CA647B-2FB4-4CDA-84EE-DF4EBFBBA872-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/C9CA647B-2FB4-4CDA-84EE-DF4EBFBBA872-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/C9CA647B-2FB4-4CDA-84EE-DF4EBFBBA872-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/C9CA647B-2FB4-4CDA-84EE-DF4EBFBBA872-90x90.jpeg 90w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/C9CA647B-2FB4-4CDA-84EE-DF4EBFBBA872-465x465.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/C9CA647B-2FB4-4CDA-84EE-DF4EBFBBA872-960x960.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/C9CA647B-2FB4-4CDA-84EE-DF4EBFBBA872.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p>DAP commends Tan Sri Mahiaddin&nbsp;Md&nbsp;Yassin for taking the correct constitutional step following his resignation as Prime Minister after losing his parliamentary majority. During his 17 months in power&nbsp;Mahiaddin&nbsp;tried hard but fell short in handling the triple crisis of Covid-19 pandemic, economic recession and political instability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new Prime Minister faces huge challenges and will have to do a far better job in dealing with the triple crisis, particularly to save lives and livelihoods badly affected by the surge of Covid-19 infections and deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Immunisation Programme (PICK) must be accelerated to ensure herd immunity is achieved by inoculation and not infection, a Covid-19 Reset Plan launched to shift from containment of COVID-19 to mitigation by living with Covid-19 and an Economic Normalisation Plan implemented to put Malaysia back on recovery track with emphasis on jobs, reopening the economy and regular financial aid to businesses and unemployed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press statement&nbsp;by&nbsp;DAP Secretary-General and MP For Bagan, Lim Guan&nbsp;Eng&nbsp;In Kuala Lumpur On 16 August 2021: &nbsp; DAP commends Tan Sri Mahiaddin&nbsp;Md&nbsp;Yassin for taking the correct constitutional step following his resignation as Prime Minister after losing his parliamentary majority. During his 17 months in power&nbsp;Mahiaddin&nbsp;tried hard but fell short in handling the triple crisis of Covid-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,260,274],"tags":[367,120,13,369,76,536,74,422,471,2040,2142],"class_list":["post-23658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-story","category-current","category-national","tag-covid-19","tag-dap","tag-lim-guan-eng","tag-malaysia","tag-muhyiddin","tag-muhyiddin-yassin","tag-parliament","tag-perikatan-nasional","tag-pn","tag-resign","tag-resignation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23665,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23658\/revisions\/23665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}