Malaysia’s Democratic Charade

Built-in abuses designed to keep government in power

By: Murray Hunter

One of the initiatives put in places in the wake of Pakatan Harapan’s drubbing of Malaysia’s Barisan Nasional government in the 2018 general election was to create a committee to look at possible electoral reform, which was badly needed because of gerrymandering and other misuses that had kept the Barisan in power for 70 years.

After tw…