Nurul Izzah moots lower voting age as part of reconciliation reforms

May 15, 2013

Nurul Izzah pronounced Malaysians had voted for shift rsther than than reconciliation. File picKUALA LUMPUR, May fifteen Nurul Izzah Anwar has pronounced she will introduce to reduce the choosing by casting votes age, lapse independence to the judiciary, annul the Official Secrets Act (OSA) as well as introduce the right to leisure of information, as part of an endless series of in isolation members bills the newly re-elected PKR MP for Lembah Pantai will table in Parliament.

Malaysias polarised society can usually be reconciled by authorised reforms, she pronounced today in proposing an endless series of changes to existent legislation she pronounced were indispensable to bring about the multiracial democracy during peace with itself.

The second-term Lembah Pantai MP pronounced she will pull forward her proposals to shift the laws when Parliament convenes anticipated to be as early as next month in response to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razaks call for settlement following the keenly-contested Election 2013.

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razaks call for settlement after Malaysias 13th ubiquitous choosing is not credible so long as Barisan Nasional continues to exploit race-based governing body to divide the communities in this country.

Malaysians want shift rsther than than reconciliation. They voted for reform which entails the restoration of democracy to this country, she said.

At the top of her washing list of due changes to the legislation was to amend Article 121(1) Federal Constitution to lapse power to the courts which had made it debasing to Parliament, as well as to tweak accordingly the Judicial Commissions Act which governs the promotion of judges. This, she pronounced was necessary to lapse public certainty in the courts.

Nurul Izzah additionally due massive revamps to the electoral! system, which has been the greatest bone of row in the issue of the May 5 ubiquitous choosing as well as which her father, Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, is still challenging.

She due to reduce the choosing by casting votes age from twenty-one to 18. She additionally pronounced she will pull for involuntary voter registration to be based on the National Registration Departments annals to be made the basement of future electoral rolls.

With the Election Commission due to carry out the redelineation practice this year as well as with some-more people relocating out of the countryside as well as in to the cities, Nurul Izzah due which the choosing regulator redraw the boundary lines to reflect the some-more offset voter race ratio of 70:30 to combat claims of gerrymandering.

She additionally pronounced she will pull for the leisure of report law which had been upheld in to state law in Selangor as well as Penang to be enforced during the sovereign turn to create transparency.

In addition, she called for the OSA to be abolished as well as the Petroleum Act to be amended to open up the finances of state oil company Petronas to parliamentary inspection instead of keeping it for the eyes of the prime minister usually as is currently practised.

Nurul Izzah, who has formerly championed for tyro rights, pronounced she would pull for the University as well as University Colleges Act (UUCA) to be revamped serve to concede tertiary-level students to take the some-more active purpose in politics, including fasten domestic parties as full members.

The Printing Presses as well as Publications Act (PPPA) which governs all print as well as promote media must additionally go, she said, as well as mooted which the attention be governed by the orthodox self-regulatory resource by the media legislature which would cover print, promote as well as online media.

Nurul Izzah additionally pronounced she would pull to bring back local legislature elections as well as the set up of t! he Indep endent Police Complaints as well as Misconduct Commission (IPCMC), which had been endorsed by an eccentric stately row in 2005 to purify up the military force.

When these reforms are implemented, we shall be on the way to the restoration of the democracy.

We will have the genuine settlement with the true inhabitant character as the multiracial democracy during peace with itself, she said.


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