Changing political culture starts with voters, says analyst

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PETALING JAYA: A politician’s call for a reshaping of Malaysian political culture has prompted an analyst to remark that voters have as big a role to play as politicians in bringing about the needed changes.

How a politician conducts himself is often dictated by what he believes his base wants, according to Oh Ei Sun of the Singapore institute of International Affairs.

He was commenting on a statement Pandikar Amin Mulia made during an online forum on Tuesday. The former Dewan Rakyat speaker said true reforms could not be achieved until there was a shift away from the treatment of politics as a zero-sum game in which there must always be winners and losers.

Oh said he agreed that such a reshaping of political culture was needed.

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