KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 -- A Pakatan Harapan (PH) MP today asked the ruling coalition to honour its election manifesto pledge to appoint an Opposition MP as parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman.

In debating the King's address today, Tanjung Malim MP Chang Lih Kang, who is a PKR vice-president, proposed that a Barisan Nasional (BN) MP be appointed to head the committee in line with PH's promise to ensure checks and balances.

"The PAC must be led by the Opposition, and we have already promised this in our manifesto.

"Before this, we had kept to our promise that it will be Beluran (MP Datuk Seri Ronald Kiandee) but Beluran has since changed sides, so I call upon the government, this Dewan Rakyat, that we change the PAC ch...