PETALING JAYA: Anyone appointed as prime minister by the King without a dissolution of the Parliament must prove he or she commands the majority of Dewan Rakyat, says former Federal Court judge Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram.
If there is no dissolution of the Parliament when the sitting prime minister resigns, the question of a caretaker prime minister does not arise, he adds.
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