COMMENT One moment, the prime minister surprised almost everyone when he suddenly proposed to form a parliamentary select committee (PSC) to seek consensus over electoral reforms, in tacit concession to the heated demand spearheaded by Bersih 2.0.

But the next moment - barely 48 hours later - he backtracked by saying that there is nothing wrong with the present electoral system, and that he only proposed the PSC because the agitators demanded reforms.

Such a flip-flop coming from the flip-flop prone Premier Najib Razak should not have raised any eyebrows, if not for the lightning speed with which he made the reverse turn in apparent deference to his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin who publicly contradicted his boss by saying that Malaysian elections have always been above board, and that the PM's proposed PSC is only for the purpose of fine tuning the electoral process.