The 1983 Constitution (Amendment) Bill proposed various amendments including increase of parliamentary constituencies, to lay down the detailed process whereby a Member of Parliament convicted of a criminal offence would lose his qualifications to be a Member of the House, provisions with regard to the Deputy Chairman and Members of the various Service Commissions, and amendments proposed to Article 66 and 150.
I have been following the Parliamentary debate these two days on the Bill, as I wanted to know the views and stand of the Barisan MPs, in particular the UMNO MPs, and I find this debate most extraordinary. We seem to be staging a Wayang Kulit, where we see the shadows but not the substance, as nobody seems to be brave enough to deal with the real substance of the amendments. Continue reading The Wayang Kulit debate