Iskandar Puteri MP Lim Kit Siang said Putrajaya is using the pandemic as a convenient excuse to justify its controversial decisions - from the suspension of Parliament to postponing the lowering of the voting age.

"The Covid-19 pandemic is used as a convenient excuse to commit a multiplicity of sins - from the suspension of Parliament to denying voters aged between 18 and 20 the right to vote in the next general election," he said in a statement.

Lim said the Election Commission (EC)...