Rafizi: I’ve submitted my resignation as Economy Minister

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Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli says he has tendered his resignation as Economy Minister, effective June 17. He said he had submitted his resignation letter to the Prime Minister and his resignation will take effect from June 17.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/3x2bjt7r   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news  SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar  LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Datuk Shri Rafizi Ramli on Wednesday announced his resignation as economy minister. He said

00:08he had submitted his resignation letter to Prime Minister Datuk Shri Anwar Ibrahim. Rafizi

00:13said he will now go on annual leave until June 16 and his resignation will take effect

00:19from June 17. He said he is confident that the programs to revamp the nation's economic

00:24structure will be carried out well by the ministry staff. He said his last task as the minister

00:30was to produce the 13th Malaysia Plan, which will be tabled in Parliament. He said the

00:35plan will focus on educational reforms, including several structural reforms in the education

00:41ministry. He said he hoped that the cabinet will retain the bold reforms outlined in the

00:46plan even though he is no longer a cabinet member. Rafizi said his defeat in the recent PKR

00:53election means that he does not have the mandate from the party to carry out his job to implement

00:59government programs as minister. He said in a democratic country, leaders who lost in the

01:08party election will have to make way for the winners to take the place in the government.

01:14Rafizi was defeated by Nurul Iza Anwar for the PKR deputy president's post in the party elections

01:20last week.

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