By-Elections: Select Better Candidates. Not Change the Law
Now, the defacto law minister, Nazri Aziz, is getting more ridiculous. Nazri, please do not get carried away. You missed the important point again. Let me put it to you in straight talk's term – by-elections are part of the democratic process.
There is already a provision which states that a seat vacated less than half the full-term of five years will have to be filled through a by-election. Penanti by-election has to be conducted. It has to go on regardless of what PM Najib or the EC deputy chairman Wan Ahmad Wan Omar have said about the need to deter 'unnecessary' by-elections. I have just asked are Malaysians law abiding? Nazri should be the first to show that he is law abiding.
Dr Mahathir's son, Mukhriz, has asked for those who quit without a valid reason to be fined.
These politicians have obviously got carried away. How do you define 'unnecessary'? Similarly, how to decide if a reason is 'valid' or not? Is a committee going to be set up to decide on the validity of all by-elections? Who are going to be in the committee? Is the committee willing to accommodate both members from PR and BN?
