If the leaked excerpts of the alleged Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) meeting minutes are authentic, Perikatan Nasional’s chief whip Takiyuddin Hassan urged the government to clarify several key issues.

At the top of his list is whether JAC chairperson and former chief justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat had exercised her casting vote to break a purported deadlock in nominating a candidate for a top judicial post.

“Was the JAC chairperson’s...