KUALA LUMPUR, March 29 -- PAS minister Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan advised Malaysians to be patient and wait for the nationwide Emergency to end on August 1 for Parliament to reconvene.

The minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Parliament and the law gave an assurance that the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government is not side-stepping democratic practices even as he insisted that that priority should be given to end the spread of Covid-19.

"While the Emergency is in force, the government's priority is to combat Covid-19 and our priority is to fight the disease. So this is not the time.

"I acknowledge that Parliament is an important element in the democratic process as is its role in formulating laws," Takiyuddin was quoted ...