KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 22 -- Pakatan Harapan lawmakers on the bipartisan committee advising the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on the Emergency said they will recommend that the panel consider restoring Parliament that is currently suspended.

They said parliamentary sessions were very important to ensure that all agendas and measures to curb the Covid-19 pandemic can be debated by members of Parliament.

"This will ensure a check and balance, and review with all the decisions made by the executive.

"The decision to restore parliamentary sessions will also give confidence to the outside world and foreign investors that Malaysia remains committed to a system of parliamentary democracy and the principle of 'Rule of Law'," the three lawmakers said.

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