06-09-2021, 08:40 AM
Started as a joke on PAS, science-based party moves closer to reality with application to RoS today
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 ― Parti Aspirasi Sains Malaysia was initially a creation on Twitter merely meant to mock Islamist party PAS, but the party may end up a reality as it seeks to register with the Registrar of Societies (RoS) today.
With its creator and founding executive committee now taking a more serious tone, the party which touts itself as prioritising evidence-based policies backed by science and data, said it will focus on an anti-poverty nation, a human-centered economy and sustainable development.
“The party will be the country’s first science political party where meritocracy is enshrined in its constitution, in tandem with a needs-based and evidence-based approach to policy making.
“Its mission is to improve equality of opportunities for all Malaysians and push the nation towards the pursuit of knowledge, for the benefit of humanity through continued application of science and reason regardless of ethnicity, gender or religion,” it said in a statement.