KUALA LUMPUR – Umno Youth hopes the government can expedite the tabling of a law on political funding to ensure that parties report their financial resources transparently.
Its chief Datuk Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki said the law would also help ensure there is no element of corruption or abuse of power in political parties.
He said the transformation agenda brought about by Umno Youth today aimed to “clean up” political culture, preserve the democratic system, defend the people’s mandate, and instil a hatred of corruption and hypocrisy.
Integrity is among the main criteria the younger generation will consider when choosing leaders, he said when delivering his speech at the Umno Youth Assembly 2021 at the World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur here today.
The Youth wing also proposed that the party’s constitution be amended to enable the party elections to be held after a general election to avoid any attempt to sabotage or undermine the unity of the party.
Asyraf Wajdi said Umno Youth also wanted the anti-party hopping act to be debated and passed immediately in Parliament to regain the trust of the people in the country’s democratic system.
“The country’s fate should be decided by the people, not by the 222 political elites in the Dewan Rakyat,” he said.
Asyraf Wajdi also touched on the separation of the roles of the attorney-general and the public prosecutor to avoid conflicts of interest and selective prosecution.
“An attorney-general appointed on the advice of the prime minister should not advise the government and at the same time use his powers to prosecute,” he said.
Meanwhile, Umno deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan said when met that Umno Youth’s proposal to remove the function of public prosecutor from the role of the attorney-general needed to be refined.
He said many countries had implemented such an approach because it was transparent and able to facilitate the duties of the attorney-general. – Bernama, March 17, 2022
