MP SPEAKS | The 2020 verdict for the performance of the unelected Perikatan Nasional government is the double standards in the enforcement of laws between the powerful ministers and the rakyat.

The PN government began their tenure by practising double standards in the infamous case of PAS Minister Khairuddin Aman Razali.

Khairuddin was given a sweetheart deal of an RM1,000 compound fine for violating the Covid-19 home quarantine for 14 days, after returning from a private trip in Turkey. In contrast, a 72-year-old lady was charged in court and fined RM8,000 and a day’s jail for also breaching quarantine and COVID-19 health protocols.

Up to now, the government cannot explain why a minister is not charged in court like the 72-year-old ordinary woman.

Such selective enforcement of the laws by the enforcement agencies has even led to ministers not being investigated or charged for corrupt practices and recommending their own children to be appointed as directors of government-linked companies, in comparison to action taken against ordinary civil servants...