Suit filed over Agong not acceding to PM's request for Emergency

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A lawyer has gone to court over the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah’s decision not to accede to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s request for a declaration of emergency.Plaintiff Syed Iskandar Syed Jaafar, through law firm Messrs Kengadharan & Co, filed his originating summons at the Kuala Lumpur High Court Registry this morning. The government of Malaysia is listed as the sole defendant in the legal action.On Sunday last week, it was reported that the Agong decided not to accede to Muhyiddin’s request for a proclamation of emergency on the declared reason that the current Perikatan Nasional government was handling the Covid-19 pandemic effectively.According to a copy of the cause papers, Syed Iskandar seeks for the court to determine among others whether the Agong “has an unfettered discretion not to declare an emergency despite the advice of the p…