Opposition party PAS today called for a special parliamentary session to be held as soon as possible to debate the recent fuel price hike.
"We are hoping for the special session to be held by early next week," said the party's member of Parliament for Kuala Selangor Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad.Earlier Dzulkefly joined the party's Youth chief and chief whip in Parliament Salahuddin Ayub and Dr Lo' Lo' Ghazali to hand in a memorandum to the Parliament administrator Kamaruddin Mohamed Baria.Dzulkefly described the record-breaking fuel increase as an "extreme action" taken by the government against the public and business community.
The next parliamentary session begins on June 23.The government announced the drastic price hike last Wednesday, increasing the price of petrol by a whopping 40.6 percent, from RM1.92 per litre to RM2.70.At the same time the price of diesel was increased by a whopping 63.3 percent - from RM1.58 per litre to RM2.58.Several protests have taken place throughout the country since the announcement of the price hike.
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