For a long time, particularly since the late 1990s, the then opposition parties from PKR to the DAP to Pas campaigned on a platform of anti-corruption and anti-cronyism, against Barisan Nasional.
This only intensified during former, disgraced Prime Minister Najib Razak’s time in power and the 1MDB scandal, which ultimately led to the downfall of the Barisan Nasional government in 2018.
The question is, how much do these parties actually practise the transparency and accountability they once demanded of others?
Recently, the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (Ikmas) at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), in collaboration with the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, published a paper on the transparency index of political parties in Malaysia.
BFM speaks to one of the co-authors of the paper, Dr Haris Zuan from UKM, about what the findings reveal regarding internal democracy and financial transparency within Malaysia’s major political parties.
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Presenter & producer: Dashran Yohan/BFM
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