Project Stability and Accountability for Malaysia (Projek Sama) urges Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to immediately restore access to the MyKhas portal for the Subang parliamentary office of MP Wong Chen, ensuring his constituents are no longer cut off from their rightful constituency development funds.
This selective denial is a textbook manifestation of institutionalised power abuse and an outright assault on democratic governance.
Anwar is reminded of Pakatan Harapan’s 2022 general election manifesto, in which it pledged to provide equal constituency development funds, regardless of party, and promised that these allocations would be “relayed through Parliament and not the prime minister’s office”.
To end the weaponisation of constituency funds, Projek Sama calls on all political parties to promise in the coming general election a commitment to list an equitable constituency development funds law in their demands for any coalition government agreement and to table a private member’s bill on this if they are in the opposition.
The constituency funds must be managed independently by Parliament, not the prime minister’s office.
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Every elected MP, government or opposition, represents people who pay taxes and are entitled to equal access to public resources.
The constituency funds come from taxpayers, not the ruling parties. It must never be partisanly abused to police internal party dynamics or punish or threaten lawmakers.
Selectively withholding the access to such funds punishes not just the MP alone but also the constituents. In Subang’s case, the constituents punished include both the 138,259 voters who voted for PH in 2022, as well as the 39,724 who did not.
Schools, welfare recipients and community projects are being unfairly deprived of funds they are fully entitled to, over backdoor political manoeuvres.
On 20 May, Wong Chen’s office discovered it had been blocked from uploading Projek Mesra Rakyat (PMR) applications for Subang schools. This happened three days after Wong Chen declared his inclination to stand under Rafizi Ramli’s new party, Bersama, in the coming general election.
A civil servant orally informed Wong Chen’s office that the block came on explicit instructions from Putrajaya – even as other PKR MPs in Selangor retained completely unaffected access. To date, no official written explanation has been provided by the government for this sudden embargo.
The “Madani” (trustworthy) government cannot claim to champion reform while weaponising public funds against dissenting lawmakers.
The immediate restoration of the Subang MP’s access to constituency development funds is the minimum expected of a government that claims to uphold democracy, accountability and institutional reform. – Projek Sama
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