The Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2026 was supposed to be the moment we finally put an expiration date, or a best before date, on the prime minister’s office. Capping the PM’s tenure at 10 years was a major reformasi promise.
It was meant to be the change so that we will never see a 22-year-old rule again. It was meant to make sure that nobody spends too much time in power and make them feel so comfortable and entitled that they forgot why they were put in power in the first place.
In order to pass a constitutional amendment, you need a two-thirds majority. In our current 222 seat Dewan Rakyat, that magic number is 148.
The government walked into the hall with an...