The Special Electoral Reform Committee, or the ERC, recently presented its interim report to the Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The report was based on 21 stakeholders' engagement sessions, which were conducted over the 16 months since the ERC was set-up in August of 2018. The full report is expected by August. Melisa Idris and Sharaad Kuttan speak to ERC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman, about the committee’s remit to raise the level of our electoral system to that of advanced democracies.
