Other political parties should emulate Muda in terms of giving equal opportunity to women in contesting elections, said its central committee member Ainie Haziqah Shafiee.

Ainie (above) said Muda’s decision to allocate women 50 percent of the spots the party will contest in the upcoming six state elections has never been done before, and it corresponds to the percentage of females in Malaysia’s population.

“I definitely think that...