PANDAN, Feb. 4 -- Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli said Opposition lawmakers must cooperate with the government's agenda and stop stoking racial tension before making demands for equal funding with backbenchers.

He said such an arrangement was not unprecedented, citing the Memorandum of Understanding for Transformation and Political Stability Pakatan Harapan had signed with the Ismail Sabri administration in 2021.

"In the last term, there was the MoU between the government and Oppositions and specific matters were agreed on; for now, the Opposition did not ease up on race issues and attacks they aimed (at the government).

"The Opposition did not start any initiatives; they just sit there and wait for everything to be given to them," he to...