Pakatan Harapan senator Mohd Nor Monutty today proposed that senators be elected by the rakyat as part of a long-term effort to reform the Dewan Negara.

He proposed that the election for senators be conducted within five to 10 years.

This, he told Malaysiakini, would allow the rakyat to participate in the democratic process and allow them to choose the best candidates to represent them in the upper house...