The narrow vote result to remove former Court of Appeal judge Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof as Dewan Rakyat speaker yesterday showed that it's difficult for the government of the day to function, said a former Umno minister.

According to Ahmad Shabery Cheek (above), the result showed that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had indeed enough support to form the government, however, the wafer-thin majority had led to an unstable administration...