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Malaysian govt looks to tabling political funding bill in October to boost transparency, accountability

PETALING JAYA: . According to a report by The Star, Wan Junaidi said the bill was “in the pipeline” with Putrajaya working on tabling the proposed law in the lower house’s October meeting. He said the bill was Putrajaya’s own initiative to boost transparency, governance and accountability, pointing out that the law was not mentioned in the government’s memorandum of understanding with Pakatan Harapan.

Calls for such a law have been repeatedly made by civil society and figures across the political divide. A draft for the bill had even been prepared when Najib Razak was the prime minister.Political economist Edmund Terence Gomez previously said that in 2015, a Cabinet committee was formed to prepare such a bill, after the 1MDB scandal broke and it was disclosed that foreign funds had been transferred into the bank account of a sitting prime minister.

 

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