A Humble Submission

In GE14, the current group of MPs helped make history. But they have a lot more to do, including pushing for reforms and improving parliamentary proceedings.

IT has been more than a month since the seismic events of the 14th General Election. While the new government is slowly getting into the rhythm of governing, the Opposition parties appear to still be in disarray.

MOST had predicted that Barisan Nasional would once again win the general election, as it did the past 13 times. Although the Opposition would put up a strong showing, perhaps even better than what they did in the last GE, according to conventional wisdom Barisan would still prevail.

In less than 10 days time, Malaysians will go the polls for the 14th time in the history of this country. According to the Elections Commission, 14,940,624 registered voters are expected to cast their vote in the GE14. 5 years ago, there were 13,268,002 registered voters.

THE 13th Parliament was recently dissolved to pave the way for the 14th General Election. This was followed by the dissolution of the State Legislative Assemblies all over the country, except for Sarawak.

WE are so close to the 14th General Election (GE14).

SO the Government intends to introduce a new legislation to tackle what is termed as "fake news". A special task force has been set up to look into this new legislation to curb this and the Government hopes to table the Bill at the current Parliament sitting.

THE conviction of Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli and former bank clerk Johari Mohamad and their 30-month jail sentences under the repealed Bank­ing and Financial Institutions Act (Bafia) have raised many questions.

A couple of weeks ago, the Elections Commission (EC) issued the second notice for the re-delineation proposals for the state of Selangor.

OVER the past few weeks, the calls for a boycott of the upcoming general election have been gaining traction. So too the calls for voters to spoil their ballots.

A constructive rather than a punitive approach would be more likely to achieve the goal of promoting equality.

Our Constitution prohibits discrimination against citizens, but it applies to the public sector only.