JUNE 12 — Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz has suggested that the Federal Constitution should be amended to ensure a period of five years between general elections, thereby...
JUNE 12 — Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz has
The former law minister added that the issue of the government’s stability was frequently raised by US investors and politicians that he met. Perhaps it is an opportune time to look at the arguments for and against fixed term Parliament which Professor Robert Hazell of the Constitution Unit, University College London penned in a report more than a decade ago. decided to call a premature election in April 1955. This could be justified on a mandate basis: he had only taken over as PM nine days earlier after the resignation of Winston Churchill.
There is a risk that rigidity could lead to “lame duck” governments, lacking the full confidence of the House of Commons but not capable of being brought down, as the case in New South Wales, Australia where a deeply unpopular government could be removed.Experience of fixed term parliaments in other jurisdictions show that governments have been able to circumvent the fixed term requirement and call elections according to their convenience.
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