Political parties in Malaysia and the voting public would be better off if our institutions, narratives and norms can be adapted to suit Malaysia’s new normal of having coalition governments formed by parties of similar strength. Appreciating the prospect of not having a single dominant…
Post-Sheraton Coup, the immediate need for UMNO, PAS and Bersatu to have more seats to distribute among themselves will alter the political landscape in massive ways. This piece predicts that the three parties will create “the pool” of 135 of the 165 Peninsula seats, taking…
May I first thank Tan Sri Mohamad Ariff bin Md Yusof, Speaker of Parliament, for giving me the honour of being a member of the editorial committee of “Law, Principles and Practice in the Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives) of Malaysia” and to be invited…
For Malaysia to move forward, we need to have a new framing for our political and economic discourses. Malaysia’s race/communal politics traces its roots to the Japanese occupation and the immediate aftermath in 1945. That was 75 years ago. The UMNO-dominant polity began in the…
The political crisis caused by the Sheraton coup should be seen as part and parcel of a very painful and long democratisation process. The coup was in fact the form that the expected push back by conservative forces took, against the people’s democratic uprising that…
I would like the Senior Minister of Defence Dato’ Sri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, to confirm to Parliament the current status of the Defence White Paper (DWP). The “100 Days Report Card” released by the Defence Minister recently is only a show of daily activities in…
To all Malaysians who created the GE14 miracle, keep fighting. We will be back stronger.