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These years, the topics of The bright morning of 21st May 2022 opened with a lively introduction from
rapid political developments and the the host, Mr Chia Choon Han. Soon thereafter, Mr Walter Chou, the speaker of today’s
change in the federal government has seminar started his show with much welcome from the students.

become a popular one amongst the
people of Malaysia. Unfortunately,
while these happenings have sparked As a continuation of his last session with us, he started off with an explanation
much controversy and discussion, about the power balance in Malaysia and how Montesquieu’s theory stressed that the

the younger generation, especially three organs of government must have a defined area of power. He mentioned that in
the students, have shown little to no Malaysia, the separation of powers between the Legislative, Judiciary and Executive is
interest as to how events like these clearly expressed in the Constitution. However, in Malaysia, the power overlaps between
might impact their future. the legislative and executive.

In his talk, Mr Chou stressed that Malaysia has a system of parliamentary democracy.
As such, the Academic
Department of Kuen Cheng High Our politics take the framework of a federal representative democratic constitutional

School has decided to host some monarchy, in which our Yang di-Pertuan Agong heads the state and a Prime Minister
seminars on civic education tailored heads the government. We have a Parliament that debates over our Constitution, Cabinet
for the Senior Middle Three that heads matters of the country, and a Federal Court that carries out the Law.

students, who will be able to vote for
their desired government this year Then he moved on to speaking about the importance of voting. According to him,
following the implementation of the votes of the people are a way for the ruling class to hear the voices of the people and
UNDI18 in 2021, the law to lower the a way to balance out power to prevent a dictator from rising to power. It also makes the
Civic voting age from 21 to 18. There were a politics of the country fair to all.

total of two such seminars currently,
Education: the first held on 16th April 2022 and

A Talk on the second on 21st May 2022. Mr Chou further explained that the House of Representatives (Dewan Rakyat in

Malaysia’s

Electoral

System (II)

Reported by:
Tan Ginny SR3B

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