After Sedition Act flip-flop, how now for Najib’s election reform?

(TMI) – Following Putrajaya’s about-turn on the Sedition Act repeal, questions now hang over another of Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s promised reforms – to place the Election Commission under parliamentary oversight.

Announced less than a month after the May 5 general election last year, the plan to have a bipartisan committee oversee the EC to address concerns over its alleged bias now appears to have hit a snag.

EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said the plan would not be happening any time soon.

“It is still being carefully studied,” he told The Malaysian Insider when asked about the progress made so far since Najib’s announcement last year to remove the EC from the purview of the Prime Minister’s Department.

Aziz said it would not be easy to implement the reform as it required constitutional changes.

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