KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government barely broke a sweat on the first day of Parliament when it installed a Speaker as well as two deputies, and won a confidence motion with comfortable majorities on Monday.
The only blot in the copybook was that the administration’s claim of a two-thirds super majority – which allows sweeping changes to laws such as constitutional amendments and changes to electoral rules – was not affirmed in the confidence vote.
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