KUALA LUMPUR, May 16 -- Perikatan Nasional (PN) has appointed coalition chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar as the new Opposition Leader in Parliament.

The Kemaman MP who is also Terengganu menteri besar replaces Larut MP Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin who was sacked as Bersatu deputy president in February.

"The council agreed to appoint Kemaman MP Datuk Seri Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar to shoulder the responsibility as Opposition Leader," PN secretary-general Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan said in a Facebook statement this afternoon.

He said the decision was made during the coalition's supreme council meeting at the Hotel Royale Chulan here earlier today.

"The council agreed in principle to accept electoral cooperation or an electoral pac...