KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 6 -- Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob would undermine a possible confidence-and-supply agreement with the Opposition if he does not validate his legitimacy to be the prime minister via a confidence vote in Parliament, said DAP's Lim Kit Siang.

The veteran DAP leader said Ismail Sabri would be committing a mistake in accepting Attorney General Tan Sri Idrus Harun's advice that a confidence vote would be superfluous, noting that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong has expressly advised that one be held.

"The Yang di-Pertuan Agong had decreed on August 18 that the new prime minister must seek a vote of confidence in Parliament as soon as possible to determine his legitimacy, that MPs should work together to focus on the Covid-19 re...