KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 3 — The Selangor state assembly is expected to clarify this week whether an unnamed assemblyman has lost his seat after reportedly being declared bankrupt, Utusan Malaysia reported.
Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari said the matter would be determined by the state assembly Speaker, Lau Weng San, before the Election Commission (EC) was formally informed.
“That is subject to the Speaker’s prerogative, not my position. But I believe the state assembly will prepare a note, and I think that by this week at the latest, we will announce the status of the assemblyman concerned,” Amirudin said today.
He was speaking at a Selangor civil servants’ gathering and the…