{
  "id": 16155007,
  "title": "RoS, home minister appeal against stay on PN deregistration",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/ros-home-minister-appeal-against-stay-on-pn-deregistration",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T05:31:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2026/10/23/ros-home-minister-appeal-stay-on-pn-deregistration"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Registrar of Societies (RoS) and Home Minister have appealed against the High Court's decision to temporarily halt the deregistration of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition. The appeal, filed by a senior federal counsel on their behalf, cites dissatisfaction with the ruling delivered by Justice Azizan Arshad. The stay granted by the High Court will continue until the coalition's judicial review application is decided. Justice Azizan ruled that exceptional circumstances warranted the stay, taking into account PN's political role and the implications for its status as elected representatives and state governments. On October 5, PN had filed a judicial review application against the RoS, seeking a certiorari order to quash the September 23 notice suspending the coalition's activities indefinitely, a show-cause notice from September 22 requiring an explanation for why it should not be deregistered, and a declaration that both notices were invalid. The application was filed by the secretaries-general of five PN component parties, excluding Bersatu.",
  "summary": "The notice of appeal states that RoS director-general Zulfikar Ahmad and home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail are dissatisfied with the High Court’s decision to grant a stay on PN’s deregistration.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Malay Mail",
        "title": "Court grants Perikatan stay on RoS deregistration, allows coalition to contest Melaka state polls",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/court-grants-perikatan-stay-on-ros-deregistration-allows-coalition-to",
        "published": "2026-10-22T09:09:36.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}