Sarawak, Sabah demand more seats under equal status
The Dewan Rakyat currently has 222 seats but Sabah and Sarawak say it is peninsula-biased as the two Borneo states only have 56 members of parliament. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Seth Akmal, March 12, 2019.
THE proposed amendment to Article 1 of the federal constitution to restore Sarawak and Sabah’s status as equal partners in the federation of Malaysia must include according the two states a third of seats in Parliament, Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister James Masing said. He was referring to the arrangement when Malaysia was formed in 1963, when Malaya held two-thirds of parliamentary seats, while Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore held the other one-third as a constitutional safeguard.
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