DEMOCRACY must not exist to demoralise people from voicing their criticisms out against politicians who fail to deliver their entrusted responsibilities and roles, especially ones hired by taxpayers’ money to be a minister.

Hundreds of thousand of mankind could be economically affected by the incompetency of politicians if the third-wave infection invades without us being signalled.

In this very confusing era when some hail politicians for their ‘heroism’, there are, undeniably, ministers and their assistants called “deputy minister” who are not so functional to administer the country’s crisis as their indecisiveness fades their leadership.

I am not interested to detail every frustration I (people) face of the politicians’ incapability, but have we ever wondered, how would our life be if we are not led by politicians?

As a nonpartisan, I have always been wanting to see a federal cabinet lined-up by at least 75 percent of purely-born professionals with no attachments with existing political parties.

Constitutionally, Prime Minister can only be appointed from one of the electorally-elected members of the House of Parliament. That can’t be changed.

However, the PM-chaired cabinet can have members from both houses of the Parliament.

So that means, constitutionally, federal ministers can be anyone who has no membership in any registered political party, but must first receive senatorship.

To me, out of 70 seats reserved for senators in the Upper House of Parliament, 55 seats must specially be reserved for non-partisan professionals and whoever Malaysian whose contributions are meaningful for the economy and society.

In other words, all forty appointed-by-His Majesty senators should be given to a politically-independent professional.

To make it adequate for the idea, a nonpartisan should also be selected to fill one of two senatorship quota reserved for each state assembly, including Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur.

Besides having a cabinet dominated by experienced and reliable professionals that will ensure realistic policies with efficient deliveries, nonpartisans’ dominance in the Dewan Negara can also erase irrelevant political sentiments injected in many traditional parliamentary debates.

Therefore bills, especially ones that could be easily passed by the well-numbered government bloc, can be re-justified by nonpartisan senators’ relevances of thoughts that distance unpleasant political sentiments.

That will ensure the true “check-and-balance” role of the Senate that has been long wished.

Believe me, if the idea of having the fixed 55-seat-for-nonpartisan quota in the Senate provisioned in the Federal Constituency (must pass two-third Dewan Rakyat vote before it becomes constitutional), it will motivate many elected parliamentarians to rationally vote for a certain bill for the sake of the rakyat’s betterment.

Plus, it will progressively mould a stable democracy with important national policies and laws passed with balanced corroboration of partisan and nonpartisan parliamentarians.

And also, it will inspire the executives to serve greater for the people to have a peaceful life.


* Amerul Azry Abdul Aziz is an independent writer who now views politics as something that can be researched.

**The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the position of Astro AWANI.