The issue of when Pakatan Harapan nominated their speaker is "moot," according to PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar.

Instead, she said, the more pressing question is why BN did not propose their own candidate for speaker.

"This discussion is moot, partly because in the Standing Orders, it is stipulated that BN had every right to submit a name, their choice for a speaker, and they didn't do so...