Overhauling a Federal biassed Constitution

Fadha Nur, a lawyer and syariah counsel to 4 States in Malaysia speaks about the Federal Government flexing its muscles to overpower State decisions and forcing the State to follow its decision, the present "water crisis" in Selangor being an example.

The Malaysian Consitution is federal or central biassed and there are many provisions in the Constitution whereby the Federal government can use the bureaucracy as a form of indirect democracy to run matters of the State.

According to her, the way forward would be to overhaul the political culture and improve the avenues for direct democracy so that decisions are not made by other people on the State behalf.

The Malaysian Constitution amongst other things is a legal arrangment as to how the country is to be administered and the true power behind it, is the rakyat.

Fadha Nur was speaking at the Forum on Federal-state relationship, organised by the Bar Council of Malaysia on 1st March 2010 at the Annexe Buiding of Dewan Undangan Negeri Selangor.

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