Time to ditch first-past-the-post elections system, says Bersih


Bersih 2.0 co-chairman Maria Chin Abdullah listening during a forum titled 'Raining Dedak at elections: Who is watching?' along with the launching of C4 report at a hotel in Petaling Jaya on November 11. The electoral watchdog says it is time for Malaysia to ditch the first-past-the-post system. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, December 7, 2017.

BERSIH 2.0 has called for major changes to Malaysia’s electoral system, including doing away with the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system, following the high court’s dismissal of the Selangor government’s bid to challenge a boundary redelineation exercise.

The electoral reform coalition said the FPTP system had allowed malapportionment and gerrymandering to take place and these would only get worse, now that the courts had freed the EC from constitutional constraints.


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