Perikatan Nasional a ‘frontdoor’ government


I KEEP hearing the phrase “backdoor government” in the past weeks, even by lawyers who are expected to know better. When lawyers do this, it is either honest ignorance or intellectual dishonesty clouded by partisan prejudice.

Some claim that the current government is formed through the “backdoor” and hence, a shame to democracy. How so?

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