The proposed political funding bill has not gone through despite years of discussion due to a lack of political will on both sides of the divide, said Centre For A Better Tomorrow (Cenbet) co-president Gan Ping Sieu.

Gan, who was part of the National Consultative Committee on Political Financing when Najib Abdul Razak was the prime minister, noted that Malaysians were told that plans for a political funding law were underway for years but nothing has materialised.

“The governments of the day, and the oppositions of the day – yes, plural as we have had changes in the corridor of power – have all promised us that. Yet...