One of Najib’s reform initiatives aims at decentralisation in decision making and devolution of powers. But how will this be possible when, as Francis Loh observes, the BN federal government has been most disinterested in sharing power with the state and local levels of government?
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One of the major election issues this time around has been the demand for the restoration of local council elections. Local councils have become unaccountable, indifferent to people’s
woes, inefficient in their management and intolerable in the way
services are provided. Councillors become arrogant, abuse their powers,
serve themselves, not the public, and are sometimes the source of
corruption. Think about that as you go out to vote.
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