KUALA LUMPUR: Two former ministers – Tan Sri Dr Rais Yatim and Tan Sri Mohd Radzi Sheikh Ahmad – were among five individuals sworn in as senators before Senate president Tan Sri SA Vigneswaran at the Dewan Negara.
The other three were PAS vice-president Idris Ahmad, head of PAS Supporters Club N. Balasubramaniam and former Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s political secretary Muhammad Zahid Md Arip.
The Senate now has 70 members, 26 of whom were state appointees, while 44 others were appointed by the King.The senators are appointed for a term of three years and can only be reappointed once. “I think it would be good if the image of the Senate is changed to a highly intellectual assembly... building the nation not through harsh words, but through an exemplary image that could help shape the future generations.
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