Resident groups in Petaling Jaya, Selangor have expressed their solidarity with the 19 local councillors who walked out of the city council’s full-board meeting over a disagreement surrounding a development project’s approval.

The resident groups also claimed this is the second time that councillors had to leave a meeting in order to uphold the interests of the community over the same development project at Lorong Sultan.

“The law is very clear that decisions are made by...