00:01Former Subang MP Wong Chen has officially joined Bersama, days after resigning his parliamentary seat.
00:30As it stands, the anti-hopping law, people need to understand that the process has to be resigning as a
00:37member of parliament first, and then resigning as a member of that party, and then only apply to be a
00:43member of the new party.
00:45Wong was among three PKR MPs, stripped of access to the MICA's constituency funding portal, after attending Bersama's launch event
00:53in May, alongside Ampang MP Rodzia Ismail and Petaling Jaya MP Lee Chian Chung.
00:59By blocking that, you hurt my people. You don't really hurt me. You basically take away my powers as the
01:06member of parliament in charge of the funds for my community.
01:10And I asked my father, what do we do? You know, he's very proud that his son is a member
01:15of parliament, of course.
01:16My father told me a simple thing. If someone bullies you, you're going to take a step. And that is
01:22my step.
01:23My step is to resign. And my step is to try my very best to uphold my oath to Malaysia,
01:32which is to be a good member of parliament, which I have done.
01:35But the other part of the oath is to defend the federal constitution, and to defend democracy in the nation.
01:43We signed up, all of us, the three of us in particular, to see a reform, to see a reformed
01:48nation, a nation that respects better governance, human rights, and all these things.
01:54And for the last two years, you can see the laws that they try to push through, not agree.
02:03All the time, for the last few months, members of parliament, they were known as the repos of TKR, have
02:08to slap out and say they disagree.
02:10We ask the government to amend these things. We don't agree to these ones and them.
02:14Those are not reform-driven legislation.
02:18Bersama co-leader, Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli, said Wong will oversee the preparation of the party's policy papers, called Kertas
02:25Kansil, covering all 12 of the party's agendas, including proposed laws and programs.
02:31At the press conference, Bersama also unveiled its first group of seven party spokespeople,
02:45drawn from backgrounds in economics, accounting, engineering, media, and law.
02:51The party is also introducing three new position categories, spokesperson, shadow candidate, and mobilizer,
02:58as it prepares for internal elections to pick a new leadership line-up.
03:03Bersama says amendments to its constitution are being drafted to comply with the Society's Act.
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