{"id":1968,"date":"2021-02-27T20:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T12:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2021-02-27T20:21:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T12:21:54","slug":"ge-15-to-be-held-after-covid-19-eases-hamzah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/02\/27\/ge-15-to-be-held-after-covid-19-eases-hamzah\/","title":{"rendered":"GE-15 to be held after COVID-19 eases &#8211; Hamzah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SELAMA (BERNAMA): The Perikatan Nasional (PN) government will hold the 15th General Election (GE-15) when the country recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, says Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) secretary-general Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamzah, who is also Home Minister, said the immunisation rate or coverage will also be taken into account prior to holding the elections to prevent the fourth wave of infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is to ensure that the government remains accountable to the people and I pray that the pandemic eases in our country and the immunisation is done before we hold the elections,&#8221; he told Bernama after the Back To School Programme held at the Astaka Hall in Batu Kurau near here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the opposition&#8217;s insistence that the government holds the elections while the COVID-19 situation has yet to subside could prove to be detrimental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They forget that the Parliament sessions are still on until December this year, and the government can call a parliamentary session within six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPrime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin himself has agreed to dissolve parliament (after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides) and the PN government complies with the law. There are people who incite, saying that the current government is unfair and illegitimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The implementation of the COVID-19 Emergency has also been agreed to by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to enable the government to deal with COVID-19,&#8221; he said, adding that he felt the people would continue to trust the Prime Minister to lead the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier during the programme, Hamzah, who is also the Larut MP, handed over aid in the form of school bags and uniforms to 1,000 students in the Batu Kurau area.&#8211; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SELAMA (BERNAMA): The Perikatan Nasional (PN) government will hold the 15th General Election (GE-15) when the country recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, says Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) secretary-general Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin. Hamzah, who is also Home Minister, said the immunisation rate or coverage will also be taken into account prior to holding the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[291,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-1968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news","8":"tag-15th-general-election","9":"tag-perikatan-nasional"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}