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KUALA LUMPUR: A document on the separation of powers between the attorney general (AG) and the prosecutor will be presented to the cabinet at the end of the year, de facto law minister Takiyuddin Hassan told Dewan Rakyat today.
He said the Attorney General’s Office (AGC) was in the final stages of drafting the document and urged the opposition to support Putrajaya in reforming the constitution.
He added that the Pakatan Harapan government had made “excuses previously that it needed a two-thirds majority before it could table the amendments.”
The former prime minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, had claimed that his government did not have a majority to make the amendments.
“But something as good as this doesn’t need a two-thirds majority,” Takiyuddin told Khalid Samad (PH-Shah Alam).
Khalid had asked the prime minister to declare the government’s plan to amend Article 145 of the Federal Constitution to separate the powers and functions of the prosecutor from the AGC in order to improve the prosecutorial power in the Malaysian judicial system.
Takiyuddin said Attorney General Idrus Harun and his senior officials were preparing a cabinet document and were in the middle of completing the draft.
He added that as long as there is support from government parliamentarians, the amendment could be passed.
