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Article 43 says a Prime Minister who loses confidence must go. It never says how anyone works out that he has.
The Constitution never uses the phrase no confidence, and no Standing Order of the Dewan Rakyat creates a procedure for one. How a Malaysian government actually falls.
Explainers
Repealing AUKU will not free students to do campus politics. Parliament did that in 2018.
Anwar wants the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 repealed in full, with no replacement. The provision everyone associates with it was deleted seven years ago, so what a repeal would actually remove is something else.
Why nobody in Malaysia votes for their local council
Councillors are appointed, not elected, and the law that switched the ballots off is still on the books. Local government is a state matter, yet no state can restore elections on its own.
A coalition exit cannot dissolve Parliament. Only one person can ask.
Article 43(4) gives a Prime Minister who loses his majority two different paths, and only one of them is an election. The other one has already happened twice.
One rule, three instruments: how Malaysia's minimum wage actually gets set
The National Wages Consultative Council is reviewing the RM1,700 floor. The machinery that produces that number decides who is worth watching.
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