00:01Two MPs have urged the government to break up parliamentary constituencies in Peninsular Malaysia
00:07that have grown too large for representatives to serve their constituents.
00:12They made the call to solve the imbalances in parliamentary constituencies,
00:16even as Sabah and Sarawak have called for more seats to be created in the two states.
00:22Shah Alam MP Azli Yusof of Amanah and Tebrow MP Jimmy Pua Wiese of PKR
00:28said the call was aimed at improving services in constituencies.
00:32Hwa gave the example of the Tebrow and Bangi constituencies
00:36with 223,000 to more than 300,000 voters respectively at the November 2022 general election.
00:44This is a mega seat.
00:46Mega seat.
00:48I mean, shouldn't we actually break it up?
00:51Almost all the parliament get the same in government side,
00:54I gave the same allocation regardless of the voters.
00:59So for 223,000, I get the same amount as my colleague in Labes,
01:04who is only 50,000, I get the same amount.
01:07So in that sense, my electorate has been deprived or discriminated to a certain extent
01:13because I cannot give that amount of allocation for that amount of people.
01:18Azli said the rationale for adding seats in Peninsula Malaysia should be to strengthen
01:23constituency services unlike in Sabah and Sarawak where the push may be to increase
01:28representation in the Dewan Rakyat.
01:31But what we want to do when we add the number of kursi or make the opportunities
01:39is to be able to serve the rakyat in a better way.
01:47Sabah and Sarawak's call for more seats is among the issues being negotiated
01:51in the meetings on implementing state rights under the Malaysia Agreement 1963.
01:57Natasha Bust, FMT.
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