With what is happening in Malaysia’s political landscape of late, voters have every reason to be sceptical and believe that politicians have only one code of conduct – protecting their own interests.
BACK in 2009, a book titled New Politics: Towards A Mature Malaysian Democracy caught my attention. The author of the book was Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah (now Datuk Seri), who at the time was deputy minister of the then Ministry of Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development. He entered politics with impeccable credentials as a youth leader.
