KUALA LUMPUR: The United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (Upko) is keen to learn more about the fixed-term proposal bill to ensure that a government must complete its five-year term.
Its president Datuk Ewon Benedick said while he was aware of the bill proposal suggested by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, no further details were known regarding the proposal.
He added that he was interested to learn more about the bill details before making further comments.
"I am confident that there must be a legislation that stipulates that anyone who forms the government must administer the country until the end of its term without interference," he said after the launch of Protege Carnival by the Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Ministry at World Trade Centre, today.
He added that Upko has also discussed the need for the country's administration to run within the fixed term without any interference by certain quarters that wanted to overthrow the government.
"This (such attempts) is because it will affect the country's stability, which is a crucial factor to influence the economic prosperity for the people's well-being," he said.
The country's political landscape was recently in turmoil following allegations of the opposition having sufficient statutory declarations (SDs) to overthrow the current government.
However, no evidence has yet to be presented by any parties over such allegations.
Following this, Zahid, who is also Rural and Regional Development suggested a bill to be drafted to ensure that a government must complete its five-year term.
He said this was to prevent political instability and any attempt to topple a ruling government before its term ended.
"There must be a shift in the pace and mindset of politicians, so political alliances which have received the consent of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to form the government must complete their term.
"We do not want what happened in the last parliamentary term where we had three prime ministers, to repeat."