KUALA LUMPUR: The question of parliamentary scrutiny of executive excesses and abuses has become part of the nagging problem faced by parliamentarians, said Dewan Rakyat Deputy Speaker Datuk Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.
He said thinkers and writers on the subject had been trying to find fault with the emergence of political parties in Parliament.
“Political government has brought with it, the Cabinet system, collective ministerial responsibility and party whip systems.
“The total outcome of these systems is an arbitrary majority rules, and partisan politics in the Houses where the division between right and wrong has become blurred,” he added.
Wan Junaidi said this in his opening address at a human rights forum ‘Strengthening Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Compliance in Malaysia, Towards the 13th General Election and Electing Human Rights Friendly Members of Parliament’ here yesterday.
He said unlike some of the European Parliaments, Malaysia’s Parliament had inherited the British’s, almost in all its totality, where the government of the day decides to propose and dispose the agenda of Parliament. — Bernama