Changing Federal-State Relations – Malaysia’s Third Vote : Bringing Back Local Council Elections?

• Main Author: Waikar, Prashant
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: East Asia and Asia Pacific; Country and Region Studies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106128; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47884
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Members of Pakatan Harapan (PH) have called on the new government to reinstitute local council elections in order to increase transparency, accountability, and democratisation. While local council elections may strengthen federalism, there are many challenges that the government must reckon with too...