KUCHING, April 23 -- Dewan Rakyat has yet to receive any formal motion from Members of Parliament regarding face-to-face negotiations on the demand for one-third of parliamentary seats to be allocated to Sabah and Sarawak.

Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Johari Abdul said the proposal, put forward by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof, would fall under government policy matters, which must first be decided by the executive.

"I haven't received anything yet. Perhaps discussions are still ongoing at the Cabinet level, in which I am not involved in," he told a press conference of the 4th Meeting of the Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians of the Asean Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (WAIPA) 2025, held at Damai Lagoon Res...