By-election for three vacant Perlis assembly seats not required, says speaker

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The Perlis Legislative Assembly has announced that there would no longer be a need to hold by-elections for the state seats vacated by three expelled PAS assemblymen.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/c4ys3ztb  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The Perlis Legislative Assembly on Wednesday said there would no longer be a need to hold

00:08by-elections for the three state seats vacated by three expelled past assemblymen.

00:13The Speaker said they had retracted a letter notifying the Election Commission on its

00:18decision to hold the by-elections.

00:30Parti Komponen Perikatan Nasional telah mengeluarkan kenyataan media rasmi bertarikh 30 Desember 2025

00:37yang memberi jaminan bahawa komitmen bahawa PAS komit untuk meneruskan kelangsungan dan

00:47keberadaan PAS dalam kerajaan Negeri Perlis serah dengan mandat yang telah diberi oleh rakyat

00:53pada perayu yang ke-15.

00:55Tambahan kenyataan media yang berhormat Menteri Perlis telah memberi jaminan akan meneruskan

01:02agenda perpaduan Perikatan Nasional yang pada masa kini masih memiliki majoriti besar

01:08iaitu 11 ke-15 ahli Dewan Negeri Perlis.

01:14Maka saya mendapati bahawa majoriti ahli Dewan Negeri Perlis adalah tidak terjejas dengan

01:213 ke-15 ahli Dewan Negeri Perlis tersebut.

01:25He said the decision was made under Clause 5 of Article 55 of the Perlis State Constitution

01:31and was officially communicated to the Election Commission through a letter dated Tuesday.

01:37He said the three seats would still be vacant until the next general and state election.

01:42On December 24, PAS announced that the three assemblymen were expelled by the party after

01:49signing statutory declarations to remove Mohamad Shukri Ramli as Perlis Mentri Besar.

01:54The three are Saad Siman, Fakhrul Anwar Ismail and Mohamad Ridzouan Hashim.

02:01Additionally, five other Bersatu assemblymen in Perlis also signed statutory declarations.

02:07On December 25, Mohamad Shukri resigned, citing health reasons, and was replaced by Bersatu's

02:15Abu Bakar Hamza, who was sworn in as the new Mentri Besar on December 28.

02:20Thank you very much, yes.

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