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KUALA LUMPUR: The Attorney General’s Office (AGC) is finalizing a report on the measure to carry out the separation of powers between the Public Ministry and the AGC, says Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan (Photo).
The minister in the Prime Minister’s Department said the report will also include suggestions to amend article 145 of the Federal Constitution and will be presented to the cabinet by the end of 2020.
“I have also received the latest update that a meeting was held today (Thursday, November 5) between the Attorney General, the Attorney General, the Attorney General II and the head of the AGC public prosecutor to finalize the meeting memorandum of the Cabinet.
“The matter will be brought to the cabinet later this year, so this shows that we are quite serious in implementing this measure,” he said in response to Khalid Abd Samad (PH-Shah Alam), who asked if the government had any plans to amend Article 145 of the Federal Constitution to separate the powers and functions of the Public Prosecutor from the Attorney General’s office to ensure more transparent prosecution power in the Malaysian justice system.
Takiyuddin said that the initiative to separate the powers was one of the strategies of the XI Malaysia Plan and the National Anti-Corruption Plan.
He said the previous Pakatan Harapan administration had given the “excuse” that the measure to carry out the separation of powers between the Public Ministry and the AGC should be postponed, as it requires an amendment to the Federal Constitution.
“At the time, they didn’t have two-thirds (representation in the House) but back then, MP Muar (former youth and sports minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman) had managed to convince both blocs in the Dewan Rakyat to support the lower amendment. the voting age of 18 years.
“That was supported by everyone, so if this initiative (to separate the powers between the Public Ministry and the AGC), then it can also be done,” said Takiyuddin.
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