00:00You observe what is happening in many countries. When they have too many parties, they find
00:08difficulty getting one party to achieve majority. So it's always all the parties will lose.
00:16So that involves the losing parties need to form a coalition. But if you have a two-party
00:25system, then one or the other can win. Parliament must decide and make it into a law in the
00:35country that we permit only two parties.
00:40Expanding on his call for Malaysia to adopt a two-party political system, former Prime
00:45Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Parliament must make a law that only permits two parties.
00:51When asked if such a law would go against freedom of assembly or association, he said
00:56there was no absolute freedom.
00:59Freedom of whatever you do is limited. There is no absolute freedom. But you want to use
01:07freedom, it must deliver good results. When you find that freedom destroys the society,
01:18you have to think about limits to freedom.
01:21Yesterday, he said a two-party system would prevent a repeat of the political instability
01:25seen in the last general election, which resulted in a hung parliament.
01:30Natasha Buse, FNT News.
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