Proposals for reform

- Parties’ budget management should be scrutinised more closely by independent organisations such as the Election Commission, Anti-Money Laundering Office, Auditor-General’s Office and the Ombudsman. It has been hard to track parties’ budgets from out-of-system sources that often came in large chunks.

 

- The roles of member-screening committees should be strengthened to balance against parties’ leaders when endorsing memberships. 

 

- The roles of policymaking and democracy-promoting committees should also be more prominent in party arenas.

 

- Parties should adopt the primary election system in selecting MP candidates in order to field true representatives of the people. 

 

- Heads of parties’ branches should also be able to participate in selecting their party leaders.