Umno deputy president Mohamed Hasan has shot down Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's justification to declare an emergency, calling it "unnecessary and not the best way" to delay elections amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Expressing similar sentiment is Umno's rival DAP which pointedly accused Muhyiddin of trying to prop up his government through an emergency as he can no longer prove his majority in the Dewan Rakyat...