{"id":14288,"date":"2020-06-26T15:20:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T07:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=14288"},"modified":"2020-06-26T17:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T09:57:44","slug":"malaysian-youths-show-pn-how-to-hold-a-digital-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/malaysian-youths-show-pn-how-to-hold-a-digital-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian youths show PN how to hold a digital parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Perikatan Nasional government should learn a thing or two from our Malaysian youth. Instead of being the only government in the world to exploit Covid-19 pandemic to lock down parliament, they should figure out an alternative such as holding a virtual or online parliamentary session. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An online parliament is exactly what these young Malaysians<\/a> are doing, which goes to show that where there’s a will, there’s a way. Clearly, PN couldn’t be bothered to find a way to uphold parliamentary democracy. Furthermore, they certainly don’t have the will or the mandate from the rakyat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even through the spread of Covid-19 and the enforcement of the Movement Control Order (MCO), a youth-led initiative has created a digital medium for a parliamentary sitting called \u2018Parlimen Digital<\/strong><\/a>\u2019 that will debate on responses to the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going live on 4 and 5 July 2020, 222 participants will debate and vote on two bills regarding how the Federal Government should improve its response to the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to one of its organiser, Eshaan Menon, Parlimen Digital is a ‘feasibility study’ in order to prove that Parliament can in fact be conducted online. You can view the whole Parlimen Digital session online here<\/a> this 4 and 5 July . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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List of Parlimen Belia organisers and suporters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Parlimen Digital is organised by 3 youth-led politically independent organisations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Challenger Malaysia<\/a> 
– Undi18<\/a>
– Liga Rakyat Demokratik<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a virtual press conference, Eshaan said that,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe main objective is to encourage Parliament to adapt and continue parliamentary proceedings amid the Covid-19 pandemic.\u201d <\/strong>
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More than 5,000 Malaysian youth applied to join in <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parlimen Digital has gotten 5,775 applications -all aged between 15 and 35- ever since announcing a call for participants on June 1. Approximately 66% of them were students and some 50% of them never even voted before.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A survey conducted on the applicants found that 79.2% felt that the one-day May 18 Dewan Rakyat sitting was not enough<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Parlimen Digital, a guideline on how a digital parliamentary session can be held will be presented to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin
– Dewan Rakyat Speaker Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof 
– Dewan Negara President SA Vigneswaran
– All political parties.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back in March, our neighbour Thailand tabled and approved RM257 billion stimulus package<\/a> -the largest in Thai history- before Parliament. Moreover, countries across the globe have adapted to hold a parliamentary or legislative sitting online<\/a>. These include Philippines, Maldives, Mexico, Mongolia, South Africa and Tanzania to name a few. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This just goes to show that our youth needs to be given a voice, something that is clearly lacking in PN compared to when Pakatan Harapan was government. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Perikatan Nasional government should learn a thing or two from our Malaysian youth. Instead of being the only government in the world to exploit Covid-19 pandemic to lock down parliament, they should figure out an alternative such as holding a virtual or online parliamentary session. An online parliament is exactly what these young Malaysians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[464,367,463,461,74,465,462,460,422],"class_list":["post-14288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-bill","tag-lockdown-parliament","tag-parliament","tag-parliamentary-democracy","tag-parliamentary-sitting","tag-parlimen-digital","tag-perikatan-nasional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14288"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14315,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions\/14315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}