COMMENT | Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) and the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (Ideas) wish to state our position regarding several recent developments that touch on governance, accountability, and democratic practice in Malaysia.

We are of the view that the withholding of allocations from certain MPs, together with the continued lack of consistent access to development allocations for opposition MPs, demonstrates that efforts to create a fairer and more level political playing field have not yet been fully realised.

Most recently, Subang MP Wong Chen and Petaling Jaya MP Lee Chean Chung...