00:00The Constitutional Amendment Bill to limit the Prime Minister's tenure to 10 years
00:04could still be passed by Parliament this year,
00:07despite failing in the Dewan Rakyat yesterday, says an analyst.
00:12Shahruddin Awang Ahmad of University Malaysia Sabah said,
00:15yesterday's failure to get two-thirds of the MPs to support the bill
00:19did not mark the end of the proposed reform, but allowed room for improvements.
00:24Yesterday, the Dewan Rakyat failed to pass a constitutional amendment
00:28to limit the Prime Minister's tenure, failing two votes short of the required two-thirds majority of 148 MPs.
00:36He told FMT that continuous efforts will be necessary to persuade MPs who are apprehensive
00:42and do not see the importance of limiting the Prime Minister's tenure to 10 years.
00:48Ahmad Zaharuddin Sani Ahmad Sabri of Global Asia Consulting said,
00:52the bill to limit the Prime Minister's term was not merely cosmetic,
00:56but reflected the government's commitment to establishing preventive measures to curb the abuse of power.
01:02He said limitless power could turn a leader into an invincible political king,
01:08closing the door to reforms and killing of meritocracy.
01:11Anu Jo, FMT.
01:13The Power of Global Asia centralупr as a means
01:13of duty.
01:13The Power of Global Asia
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