Azalina diarah adakan rundingan lanjut RUU pisah peranan peguam negara, had tempoh PM

Perdana Menteri Anwar Ibrahim has instructed Deputy Prime Minister and Law & Institutional Reform Minister Azalina Othman Said to continue discussions on a constitutional amendment (RUU) proposal aimed at limiting the term of a prime minister and separating the roles of the attorney general and the prosecutor general, according to a statement from government spokesperson Fahmi Fadzil.

Following this, Azalina will hold a session with the Special Parliamentary Committee involved in drafting the constitutional amendments related to these proposals, the spokesperson added.

Anwar recently briefed the Cabinet on the proposed RUU, which was presented to the Council of Rulers, as well as the feedback received from it. After that, any amendments or improvements need to be brought back to the Council of Rulers, Fadzil clarified during a post-Cabinet briefing on Saturday. The Council of Rulers has examined the draft of the Constitutional (Constitutional Amendment) (Amendment) Bill 2026, which proposes a term limit for the prime minister.

The Rulers were also briefed on the Constitution (Amendment) Bill No. 2 2026, which aims to separate the roles of the attorney general and the prosecutor general. The RUU limiting the prime minister's term was first introduced on February 23 but failed to gain the required two-thirds majority support during its second reading on March 2 when the required number of votes was short by two.

Subsequently, the RUU separating the roles of the attorney general and prosecutor general was first introduced on February 23 but its second reading was postponed to July 14 to allow the government to present amendment proposals to the Council of Rulers.