PM reforms good for Malaysians, says Datuk Sebastian Ting

suppadmin | September 12, 2021

SUPP welcomes the announcement of 7 parliamentary and government administrative reforms by Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Ismail Sabri. We urge all the present 220 Members of Parliament from the Political Parties from the political divide to fully support these 7 parliamentary and government administrative reforms, with a positive attitude and without any reservation, in the best interest of our country, said Secretary General, Datuk Sebastian Ting.

He said Prime Minister recently announced that the government would implement 7 parliamentary and government administrative reforms, namely, the anti-hopping law, the implementation of UNDI 18 to lower the voting age to 18 years old and constitutional amendment to limit the prime minister’s tenure to ten years whole other reforms include ensuring balanced representation between government and Opposition lawmakers in parliamentary select committees and all Bills including the Supply Bill to be discussed and agreed upon collectively. Opposition lawmakers to be appointed into the National Recovery Council and Opposition Leader will be given the same allowances and amenities equal as a federal minister.

“We believe most Malaysians also welcome such annoucement and are indeed expecting our present Government and the opposition parties to have learned from the recent national political turmoils and that these reforms, which have been long overdue, are a must and necessary, The present conditions and political environment are ripe for such historical, progressive and meaningful Parliamentary and Government administrative reforms. This will be good and beneficial to our country and our valued principle of democracy, ” he reckoned.

Ting who is also Assistant Minister for Tourism, Culture and Arts said limiting the prime minister’s tenure to 10 years has many merits, amongst others, it will help to prevent or minimise political leader from staying in office for too long and start to corrupt and abuse of power and the system. This reform, he added, will also help to keep our country’s democracy alive and greatly encourage and motivate new young leaders, with new innovative ideas coupled with knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, to lead the nation.

“The most welcome of all the 7 parliamentary and government administrative reforms must be the anti-hopping law. It is certainly very unfortunate that some elected Members of Parliament and State Assemblymen or Assemblywomen, after being chosen by their respective Parties to be candidates for election and upon being elected, chose to resign from their respective Parties. In political terms, they hopped to another party and in recent times, their actions led to the fall of the governments with successive governments being formed. It is more than a fair statement to say that most Malaysians are tired, fed up and angry with these the current culture of party hopping, ” he added.

With this new anti hopping law passed in Parliament, he believed, this will put an end to this party hopping and this will certainly help to keep our country’s democracy alive. It will further prevent or minimise political corruption by stopping elected representatives from hopping party to party for their own interests and cause political turmoil and uneasiness like the recent ones.

“Many have argued that this behavior of party hopping is a total disrespect and disregard of the wishes of the people who voted for them and thus mocking the spirit of democracy and our election system.After experiencing a period of political turbulence, the people hope to see the country returns to political stability with more mature politics showing respect to our country’s democracy.SUPP would like to thank His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agong for he had also ordered the ruling and Opposition parties to end the political fighting and instead to have mutual cooperation for the interest of the country and its people.The present government must be given the chance to fully focus on looking after the wellbeing of the people especially in coping with the COVID-19 and economic recovery.

Enough of politics for the time being. Withhold your political ammunitions and seek unity and be united to fight against Covid 19 and suggest ideas for implementation the national economy recovery plan, ” he added.

SUPP, he said wishes to congratulate Prime Minister for announcing the 7 parliamentary and government administrative reforms and hopes that all reforms can be passed and implemented smoothly for the best interest of our Country and our people.