KUALA LUMPUR, June 11 -- Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that should the Emergency be lifted, there would be nothing stopping the previously postponed by-elections and state election from happening.

Dr Noor Hisham also asserted that only Yang di-Pertuan Agong now has the discretion whether the Emergency, which was scheduled to end in August, would continue.

"It's up to the King to decide," he told Malay Mail.

"Once we revoke the Emergency Ordinance we will have to conduct three by-elections and the Sarawak state election as we do not have power to stop the election under the constitution.

Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah has been meeting with political leaders this week to discuss Malaysia...