The “ethnicization of politics” has been the chief cause of the malady afflicting Malaysia politics, said veteran MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah in a lecture organised by the Perak Academy at a leading hotel in Ipoh this evening.

Speaking to an overflow crowd that bought tickets to a subscription dinner, the veteran Umno leader proposed a 10-point charter that presumably would inoculate the body politic against “ethnicized politics”.