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Mahiaddin Yassin seemingly admitted that he no longer had the support of the majority of the Members of Parliament (MPs) in a televised address yesterday. However, he insisted that he would not resign on the ground that there are no other MPs who managed to command the confidence of the majority as well. According to Article 43(4) of the Federal Constitution, once a Prime Minister ceases to command the majority support of the MPs, the Prime Minister should either honourably step down, or request the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (YDPA) to dissolve the Parliament so that a general election can be held. This essentially means that if the YDPA refuses to dissolve Parliament, Mahiddin will only be left with the option of resigning from his post. In the 2009 Perak constitutional crisis, the Federal Court ruled that the Sultan may determine whether a state assemblyman has the support of the majority outside the State Legislative Assembly. Passing a motion of vote of confidence or vote of no confiden...
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UM Pleases the Government Due to Change in Political Climate

UM was previously proud to announce that UM students enjoyed student autonomy and bragged that the organising of the campus elections are completely controlled by its students (CEC). However, it has now become a puppet of the authorities, blindly following policies which were put in place to interfere with campus democracy! Since the change of the Federal Government in 2018, the opportunity for student autonomy to grow arose. For the first time in more than 40 years, the CEC, which is an all-student committee, was established with the full support from UM in order to hold campus elections during the second semester of each academic year. At that time, UM actively supported the reformation and was even willing to clear the obstacles for its students which arose when holding campus elections to show its support and protection for campus democracy. Today, ever since the Ministry of Higher Education under the Perikatan Nasional government started to intervene in matters pertaining to unive...
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Say ‘No’ to Political Intervention, ‘Yes’ to Immediate Election

The Universiti Malaya Campus Election Committee (UMCEC) had previously on two separate accounts, dated 27 June and 10 July respectively, postponed the supposedly annual Universiti Malaya campus election. This indefinite postponement is the result of the university’s Board of Directors (the Board) making things hard for UMCEC upon the intervention of the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE).  According to sources from UMCEC and the Universiti Malaya Students’ Union (UMSU), the MoHE had given a suggestion to standardise all campus elections in the first academic semester across public universities. A member of MoHE sitting in the Board later directed UMCEC to adhere to the suggestion. Consequently, various university departments started taking orders from the MoHE to suggest delaying the campus election. Suara Siswa UM believes the interference of the MoHE and the UM management in the campus election had overridden the rights of UMCEC in organising the election and infringed the auton...
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UMANY STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH CEC, WE OPPOSE THE POSTPONEMENT OF CAMPUS ELECTION

University of Malaya Campus Election Committee (UMCEC) issued an official statement last night, stating that our campus election could not be held as scheduled in mid-July, due to a proposal from the Ministry of Higher Education. They unreasonably suppress students and deliberately block the democratic process, aiming for gaining and strengthening their control towards university students. It will undoubtedly cause students' previous efforts on restoring campus democracy to waste! According to the CEC statement, the Ministry of Higher Education ordered the election dates in all public universities to be postponed to November, the first semester of the new school year. They unreasonably postpone our campus election to the next semester, which is not only a disrespect for student autonomy but also highlights the fragility of campus democracy under insidious political forces. Campus elections, which should symbolize democracy and fairness, have now been infiltrated and crippled by pol...
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UM Admin Maliciously Forces CEC to Delay Campus Election

The University of Malaya (UM) Campus Election is a major democratic event of UM where all undergraduate students have the right to vote for the new leadership board of the University of Malaya of Students’ Union (UMSU). Every year, the Campus Election Committee (CEC) is the party which is responsible for organising the UM Campus Election, with its committee and members consisting of UM students. At the end of 2018, the first CEC board was formed upon the first reformation of university policies by the Ministry of Education, which came into being due to the efforts of UM student activists. The formation of CEC has conferred UM students the power to organise campus elections on its own, signifying the first step towards restoring student autonomy. The CEC plays an important role in reflecting student autonomy as well as campus democracy. Unlike the campus elections which were controlled by the university management and various political parties prior to 2018, the elections organised by t...
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On 6 May 2021, Palestinian residents protested against the Israeli Supreme Court’s upcoming decision to evict Palestinian residents from Sheikh Jarrah. On the following day, Israeli police attacked Palestinian Muslims who were worshipping at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, thereby injuring approximately 180 Palestinians. 80 of these injured Palestinians were sent to the hospital for treatment and one was in critical condition. [1] Subsequently, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), a Palestinian militant group, fired missiles into Israel, while Israel counterattacked with airstrikes targeted towards refugee camps, media offices, and health infrastructures. Ground troops were also sent to attack the wounded and medical staff. As of 18 May, 213 Palestinians, including 61 children, were reported to have died; on the Israeli side, 10 casualties were reported, two of which were children. [2] The United Nations Security Council held two rounds of emergency closed-door meetings on the 10th and 12th of...
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Minister of Health recklessly reduces the isolation period for ministers return from abroad

The Minister of Health, Adham Baba, issued a new order in the Government Gazette that cabinet ministers who return from any official visit abroad can be exempted from being restricted by the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342), where they only need to be quarantined for three days instead of the original ten days. The public is hardly convinced because its political considerations have overridden science. In the past, many cabinet ministers violated standard operating procedures (SOP). However, their misconduct was dismissed by the authorities although their actions had been exposed to the public. This time around, the Minister of Health directly modified the quarantine regulations through legislation, treating our law as a plaything. Although our Minister of Health has raised some provisos along with the deregulation, which includes the relevant minister must strictly abide by the bubble itinerary and the Ministry of Health will determine whether to extend...
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