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With 93 of its 219 members appointed to the executive as ministers, deputy ministers and parliamentary secretaries, the Malaysian Parliament has one of the largest front benches, if not the largest, in the world.

The Indian Lok Sabha (Lower House) has 542 members but the entire executive has only 67 members (about one-fifth of them are from the Rajya Sabha-Upper House).

While the Australian population is slightly smaller than Malaysia, it has only 41 frontbenchers.

Even if the executive wing of the Malaysian Government is not the largest in the world, it is surely the largest in proportion to population.

Furthermore, our cabinet room is more crowded than that of most commonwealth counties, such as Britain, India or Australia. They have 22, 31 and 17 senior government leaders sitting at the Cabinet table respectively while Malaysia has 33 of them. Maybe this is what we call 'Malaysia Boleh'.


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