According to Bernama, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said the Cabinet will discuss the proposal made by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang.

Lim had repeatedly urged for the report prepared by the CEP’s secretariat and institutional reforms committee to be made public.

The CEP, formed in 2018 after Pakatan Harapan (PH) came to power, was led by former finance minister Daim Zainuddin.

Ex-Bank Negara Malaysia governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz, former Petronas president and CEO Hassan Marican, prominent economist Jomo Kwame Sundaram and tycoon Robert Kuok were also in the council.

The CEP was dismantled after PH’s first 100 days in government.

Meanwhile, the institutional reforms committee had come up with a report in 2018 on proposed institutional reforms that were identified by the then PH government.

Lim had called for both reports to be tabled in Parliament as white papers. The ex-MP said they should be referred to a parliamentary committee before recommendations were brought to Parliament.

In February, a coalition of 100 civil society organisations also called for the reform committee’s report to be made public, saying the previous government’s lack of progress in reforms had severely impacted its transparency, accountability and governance.

The reform committee is said to have made numerous recommendations involving the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, the Sedition Act, the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act (Sosma), police misconduct, the death penalty and other issues.

In March, law and institutional reform minister Azalina Othman Said said a memorandum on declassifying the reform panel’s report would be brought to the Cabinet “soon”.

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