No final decision on Sarawak electoral boundary re-delineation, says deputy minister
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HL: No final decision on Sarawak electoral boundary re-delineation, says deputy minister
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KUCHING: Deputy Minister of Law, Malaysia Agreement 1963 and State-Federal Relations, Datuk Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali, said today that no final decision has been made on the proposed re-delineation of electoral boundaries in Sarawak.
She said discussions between the state and federal governments on the matter are still ongoing.
"With regard to the demand for additional parliamentary and state seats, discussions are still in progress and the exact number of additional seats has yet to be finalised," she said when replying to Bawang Assan assemblyman Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh during the question-and-answer session in the State Assembly.
Sharifah Hasidah also said discussions concerning the strengthening of Sarawak's representation in the Dewan Rakyat remain active under the framework of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63), and that the Sarawak government will continue to pursue the matter.
She said the Sarawak government has consistently pushed for the restoration of one-third representation for Sarawak and Sabah in the Dewan Rakyat, as originally envisaged under MA63 and the Inter-Governmental Committee Report of 1962.
Wong had asked when the upcoming constituency re-delineation exercise would be completed and how many additional seats would be allocated at both parliamentary and state levels.
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