Malaysia To Welcome 5.8m New Voters. Discuss.

Ben Suffian, Programme Director, Merdeka Center

13-Jan-22 07:45

Malaysia To Welcome 5.8m New Voters. Discuss.

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Malaysia’s electorate will soon swell by around 5.8 million voters upon implementation of the Undi18 and automatic voter registration laws, with many questions now swirling around the implications of this fresh influx. Ben Suffian, Programme Director, Merdeka Center, analyses. Image credit: Unsplash.com

Produced by: Shazana Mokhtar

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Categories: politics

Tags: undi18, automatic voter registration, malaysian politics, ge15,

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