The practice of switching camps by elected representatives will not benefit the people, but instead would be detrimental to the democratic process, said Rural and Regional Development Minister Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd Taib.
Describing the practice as a betrayal of the people’s trust, he said elected representatives were not only voted on their personality and personal traits but also on the party they represented.
“Should elected representatives hop from one party to another, they are deceiving the people who had given them the mandate.
“They will be perceived as dishonest persons who are merely pursuing their personal interests,” he told reporters here today.
He was commenting on a proposal by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Zaid Ibrahim that an anti-hopping law be legislated to prevent the malpractice.
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