COMMENT | It’s quite clear that politicians can’t be trusted to stop trying to topple each other for five years and just focus on working for the public.

Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s stop-gap solution is to introduce a law for a fixed-term government, disguised as a Fixed-Term Parliament Act (FTPA).

While an FTPA to spare Malaysians from snap elections is welcome, rigging Parliament so that a government remains in power sounds very undemocratic.

What if one party in a coalition has gone rogue and become evil incarnate?

Are the other coalition members expected to just keep going with it? Even if they oust the prime minister through a vote of confidence, what guarantee is there that such a coalition can remain viable, or that a new prime minister from the same party can be trusted to be a good egg?