COMMENT | PM and his cabinet would be advised to tell their agenda for the country before the vote of confidence in May.
is one that delivers. To survive the vote of confidence when Parliament resumes in May 2020, he has to show the country that he can do better than the previous Pakatan Harapan government by making good the reforms that he was a part of when he waved the Buku Harapan before the GE14.
The autonomy of the Orang Asal must be respected by ensuring their participation in all policy-making involving their interests and introducing policies and laws that comply with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples , especially their right to customary land.All local people must be consulted before any development projects and all permanent forest and wildlife reserves gazetted.
It is high time to replace race-based policies with needs-based measures that truly benefit the lower-income and marginalized sectors. Today, with the lack of ethnic diversity in the civil and armed forces, it is also time that recruitment and promotion in these services be based on merit. I don’t think a two-third majority in Parliament is necessary to introduce these inclusive reforms.First of all, the new administration, in a major retrograde step, has appointed very few women to the cabinet.
Repeal all laws that allow arbitrary declaration of emergency; torture, capital punishment, detention-without-trial and incommunicado detention including NSC, Sosma, Pota, Poca. Abolish the death penalty in Malaysia, impose an immediate moratorium on all executions pending abolition and commute the sentences of all persons currently on death row.
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