Consider This: Politics (Part 2) — Anti-Hopping Laws Democratic?

The long-awaited Anti-Party Hopping Bill is expected to be tabled during the upcoming Dewan Rakyat sitting which begins this Monday February 28th. An anti-defection law was one of the key institutional reforms promised in the MoU signed last year by Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s government with Pakatan Harapan -- and PH has warned that the MoU would be declared void if the anti-hopping bill was not tabled at the next parliamentary sitting. But there seems to be no consensus for how to define “anti-hopping”. To understand what it is the heart of contention. Melisa Idris and Sharaad Kuttan speak to Hanipa Maidin, Sepang MP & former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of legal affairs under the Pakatan Harapan Administration.