COMMENT | Mr Minister, restoring third vote is a priority!

COMMENT | Let’s put this clearly to Local Government Development Minister Nga Kor Ming and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim: We must restore local government elections.

Electing council members and mayors for our local councils is the democratic right of any country that claims to practise democracy.

For the people’s understanding, the issues regarding fixing potholes on the roads, building proper drainage and sanitation, maintaining state-run animal shelters and others fall under the local government’s purview, not the state assemblypersons or MPs.

Granted, assemblypersons and MPs can raise such matters to the relevant authorities but in reality...