Some say that the power of the King to grant a royal pardon is ‘absolute,’; that ‘no one can question it’. Is this correct?
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Should the Senate be a back door into the Cabinet?
The questions is not whether Senators can be admitted into the cabinet. To that question, the answer is obvious. They can be. The question is: what should be their qualifications?
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Have the four Sabah MPs lost their seats?
The facts emerging from Sabah get murkier by the hour. If their resignation has been accepted, then they will lose their seats. Yet, unless the Speaker follows the procedure in Article 49A, one cannot ‘automatically knock out' the four Sabah MPs. Truth will out.
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What happens when there is a ‘hung parliament’?
If no party, or coalition, has the minimum number of 112 MPs, then the King is required, by legal convention, to invite the leader of the coalition with the largest bloc of MPs, to form a Government.
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How does the Malaysian anti-hopping law work? Can it be manipulated?
Will the anti-hopping law stop MPs from jumping to different coalitions? Are there loopholes in the Anti Hopping law? Can the laws be manipulated? How should political parties stop frogs?
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Kejatuhan era kebebasan Kehakiman melalui pemecatan Hakim terulung
Krisis Pemecatan hakim terulung : bermulanya perarakan melindungi kebebasan kehakiman
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Emergency: the story of 108 against 34
A man crashes a car. Is there a moral behind this parable?
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