COMMENT | It’s Malaysia Day tomorrow but it seems like we are undoing our reform agenda, backtracking on election promises, and worse, contributing to a shrinking democratic space in the country.

How does one recover from the stinging effect of the dropping of all 47 charges against Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi by the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC), or digest the eleven reasons given by the AGC, which weren’t worth the paper it was written on?

This case is of public interest and therefore why was the 200-page representation paper by Zahid’s lawyers not made public?

Before we could...