Muhyiddin
Reforms offered to win support
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Embattled Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin promised a raft of reforms yesterday to Malaysia's opposition as he tried to stave off defeat in a confidence vote in Parliament early next month.
His address over television is a tacit admission of the loss of his shaky parliamentary majority.
He said he would limit a prime minister's tenure to two terms, introduce a law to prevent lawmaker defections and add more constituency funds for opposition MPs if they supported him.
Malaysia's King has requested that Parliament reconvene sooner than Sept 6 to test the Muhyiddin government's majority.