Benefits of proportional representation system
KUCHING: There are numerous potential benefits of implementing an electoral reform at the federal level turning the current first-past-the-post (FPTP) system into a proportional representation (PR) system, including paving the way for more progressive politics. “Such a system could in theory steer Malaysia towards a moderate, less ethnically biased, and more centripetal system of electoral […]
Difficult to get a third seats in Parliament
KUCHING: Prof Dr Johan Saravanamuttu is of the view that despite Sabah and Sarawak’s autonomy as enshrined in the Malaysia Agreement 1963, it would be difficult to push for either state to be allocated a third of the seats in Parliament. Nevertheless, the Adjunct Senior Fellow at S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological […]
