Government and politics in Liberal Malaysia

The Nation Reborn of Liberal Malaysia is a unitary presidential constitutional republic.

Constitution

The Constitution of Liberal Malaysia is the highest law of the land. Amendments to the constitution require the approval of two-thirds of members of both houses of Congress. The constitution is modeled on the constitution of the United States except with respect to matters of religion and the rights of non-Muslims, in which case the constitution defaults to strict French-style laicite secularism and Israeli-style protections for non-Muslims.

The preamble to the constitution defines Liberal Malaysia as a non-Muslim nation-state and a secular republic. Past references to the so-called “sanctity of Islam”, the monarchy, and the Malay race have all been removed. Instead, the constitution upholds small-r republicanism, racial equality and laicite secularism, and guarantees the rights of non-Muslims at all costs, even going as far as to automatically suspend all elections if Muslims exceed 25% of the population.

The constitution deems "crimes against non-Muslims" to be the gravest offense punishable with a maximum sentence of death and tasks the government to prosecute such crimes both at home and abroad, committed by anyone of any nationality or faith anywhere in the world, applying the principle of universal jurisdiction and permitting Liberal Malaysian covert operatives to drag offenders kicking and screaming from abroad to be tried and executed on Liberal Malaysian soil. The nationality of the victim(s) is irrelevant and the law applies retroactively with no statute of limitations, even predating Liberal Malaysia's existence and reaching all the way back to the birth of Islam in the seventh century. If the "prophet" Mohammed were alive today, he would be apprehended abroad and beheaded in Liberal Malaysia for crimes against non-Muslims.

The government is constitutionally "duty-bound" to prevent the Muslim population from rising above a certain percentage of the population and to maintain the nation's secular non-Muslim character at all costs in order to prevent the rights of non-Muslims from being eroded. This applies at both the national level as well as the regional and local level, necessitating the forced dismantling of Muslim-majority enclaves and the forced dispersal and relocation of large numbers of Muslims across the country, facilitating their eventual and total assimilation into secular non-Muslim society. Muslims are strongly encouraged to renounce their faith or emigrate while non-Muslims are strongly encouraged to immigrate and reproduce.

The constitution guarantees an absolute, inalienable, unfettered right to freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom of the press, freedom of belief including the right to convert to and from one faith to another or no faith, freedom to proselytize to members of any faith, including by non-Muslims to Muslims, a complete separation of religion and state, freedom of conscience, the right to self-defense both individual and collective (noting that there is no mention of firearms at all), due process, the right of all sentient persons to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the right to die with dignity and to assist in the suicide of a terminally ill person, and the right to abort a pregnancy on demand up to 24 weeks.

There is no racist Article 153 that can never, ever be questioned or challenged even on the floor of the legislature. Any attempt to introduce such an illiberal, racist amendment would more than likely be struck down by the Supreme Court. There is also no lese majeste law that criminalizes any speech or expression that is deemed to insult or offend the dignity of a now-nonexistent monarchy.

The constitution guarantees equality before the law for Liberal Malaysians of all races, ethnicities, languages, faiths (or none), nationality (with the exception of immigration and citizenship requirements), marital status, gender, pregnancy status, age, ability or disability whether mental, physical, or social, sexual orientation and gender identity, and socioeconomic status, and outlaws affirmative action and other forms of discrimination on such grounds, however well-intentioned. These articles are entrenched in the constitution and cannot be amended out of existence short of promulgating a new constitution from scratch.

Any attempt to overturn the inalienable rights stipulated above shall be deemed an act of treason and both the President and Vice-President as well as the armed forces, all of whom are required to swear their allegiance to the constitution, are duty-bound to uphold its basic tenets. Failure to do so can result in the President, the Vice-President, and his or her entire Cabinet losing their seats and potentially triggering a snap presidential election. The army is authorized to remove such treasonous individuals from office by force if necessary similar to what has been done in Turkey to prevent that country’s slide into theocratic, fascist tyranny.

The constitution specifically bans political parties that operate along identitarian lines such as race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and so forth. All parties must operate along inclusive, universalist lines. Fascists (including far-right Islamists), communists, and others of an authoritarian or illiberal ideological leaning deemed incompatible with Liberal Malaysian values and democracy are also banned from forming political parties or running for office.

There are three branches of government: the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, all of which exist independently of one another.

As Liberal Malaysia is now a presidential democracy, party discipline is typically less rigid than in parliamentary democracies, rendering the issue of party-hopping null and void. Voters tend to vote directly for candidates based on personal appeal rather than indirectly for a particular party or coalition. A partisan mismatch between the presidency and both houses of Congress will simply result in gridlock rather than the collapse of a government.

Executive

The President is Liberal Malaysia’s head of state and government and is responsible for the day-to-day running of the country. The President and his or her deputy, the Vice-President, are elected on a joint ticket once every four years via ranked choice, instant runoff voting (IRV) for a maximum of two four-year terms, consecutive or otherwise. The Vice-President serves in the President’s absence and succeeds him or her in the event of the latter’s resignation, death, incapacity, or removal from office.

Members of the Cabinet are nominated by the President and vetted for approval by the Senate. Cabinet secretaries may not be serving members of Congress in stark contrast to the limiting parliamentary convention in the United Kingdom that cabinet ministers be drawn from the ranks of MPs and Peers in the Houses of Parliament.

Crucially, the President may not be legally shielded from legitimate criticism for exceeding or abusing his or her authority by members of the public under the guise of prosecuting lese majeste, sedition or some other authoritarian, unconstitutional nonsense. Absolutely no one in Liberal Malaysia is above reproach.

The first and current President of Liberal Malaysia, Alvin Tan (L), is the first ever ethnic Chinese to govern the country since old Malaysia was founded in 1963. Current Vice-President Bosch Fawstin (L), an immigrant and naturalized Liberal Malaysian from the United States, is the first ever person of both white European (Albanian) descent and the first ex-Muslim to govern any part of present-day Liberal Malaysia (as a second-in-command) since British rule, as well as one of the first ever elected officials not to have been born in Liberal Malaysia or held Malaysian or Liberal Malaysian citizenship at birth, having moved to Liberal Malaysia just prior to its rebirth in 2030. Both Tan and Fawstin are fierce critics and sworn enemies of Islam, defenders of non-Muslim rights and champions of free speech, and both regularly draw cartoons of Mohammed, burn copies of the Qur'an and make fun of Islam in various other ways in their spare time.

Legislature

Congress is a bicameral legislature that is divided into two chambers, the upper house, the Senate, and the lower house, the House of Representatives.

The Senate consists of a mixture of Senators who are elected via ranked choice, instant runoff voting (IRV) to represent their respective home nation (Malaya, Sarawak, North Borneo) with the electorate in each home nation electing ten Senators each for a total of 30 Senators. Senators are elected to serve for a fixed six-year term renewable indefinitely, with half of the seats up for election every three years. Senators are empowered to vet prospective nominees for executive office while prospective nominees for judicial office are approved with a two-thirds majority in order to minimize political bias in appointments. This is particularly true for members of the Supreme Court.

The Senate Majority Leader is the leader of the majority party in the Senate and chairs its sessions and proceedings, while the Senate Minority Leader represents the minority party in the Senate. Both the Senate Majority Leader and the Senate Minority Leader are fully partisan roles.

In the event of a tie, the Vice-President, in his or her role as governor pro tempore of the Senate, is expected to cast the tie-breaking vote.

The House of Representatives (henceforth referred to simply as the House) consists of Representatives who are elected via ranked choice, instant runoff voting (IRV) to represent their respective electoral districts on the basis of population.

The Speaker of the House is the leader of the majority party in the House and chairs its sessions and proceedings, while the House Minority Leader represents the minority party in the House. Both the Speaker and the House Minority Leader are fully partisan roles.

The House has the authority to introduce and approve financial appropriations bills. It also has the power to approve the annual budget and the President’s annual State of the Nation Reborn address to Senators.

Congress has the power to first impeach (via the House with a simple majority), then convict (via the Senate with a two-thirds majority) the President, removing him or her from office for "high crimes and misdemeanors".

While Liberal Malaysia has been reorganized from a federation into a unitary state, the interests of Sarawak and North Borneo (formerly Sabah) continue to be upheld. The population of West Liberal Malaysia vastly outnumbers the population of East Liberal Malaysia and West Liberal Malaysians dominate the House of Representatives. However, Senators from East Liberal Malaysia outnumber their West Liberal Malaysian counterparts by exactly two to one. Therefore, nothing gets passed without East Liberal Malaysia’s consent. The politics of hate and division that have long dominated West Liberal Malaysian politics prior to the nation’s timely rebirth will have no place in East Liberal Malaysia or Liberal Malaysia as a whole.

Elections

According to the constitution, Islam is deemed to be incompatible with human rights, freedom, democracy, equality and the rights of non-Muslims. Having a Muslim-majority could empower far-right Islamists to run for office, win an election, abolish democracy and implement sharia and theocratic totalitarianism and fascism, turning the nation into yet another version of Iran or Afghanistan and allowing history to repeat itself. Therefore, democratic elections can only be held if Muslims do not exceed 25% of the population, an outcome that was eventually realized by 2034 after four years of record non-Muslim immigration, mainly from the United States, and record Muslim emigration or conversion from Islam, triggering the nation's first ever democratic elections under the new, improved framework.

Should Muslims exceed 25% of the population according to a national census, elections will be suspended once again and previously-elected officials will be appointed by a joint committee to be chaired by officials from Washington and Alvinsbrook as part of the terms of the Malaysian-American Joint Declaration of 2029, although it is Washington that has the final say in practice.

Elections will resume once the Muslim population drops below 25% once again. This clause cannot be amended out of existence and any attempt to do so will be deemed an act of treason. This arrangement is unique to Liberal Malaysia and has never been practiced anywhere else in the world.

All Liberal Malaysian citizens age 18 and above are entitled to vote and run for office. Voter registration is automatic and ID is required to vote. Prior to being elected to public office, candidates representing a particular party (with the exception of Independent candidates) are typically nominated well in advance following months-long, internal party primaries. Anyone who is a citizen and of age may register with any political party in order to vote in its primaries.

Gone are the days when mainly ethnic Chinese or Indian voters who were deemed likely to vote against the government of the day had their voter registrations delayed for months at a time until just after an election had concluded. Electoral shenanigans such as conveniently-timed power outages, the stuffing of ballot boxes, the illegal relocation of the postal ballots of loyal and deeply racist civil servants from one electoral district to another, and foreigners being paid to vote have all been safely consigned to the annals of history where they belong. Gone are the days when millions of foreigners were permitted to immigrate illegally to a part of the country, be given Malaysian identification papers, and be encouraged to vote to topple the previous elected state government in order to further a then-corrupt, racist, federal government’s fascist agenda of Islamization.

An independent Election Commission (EC) delineates electoral districts on the basis of population for elections to the House of Representatives as well as the presidential election, preventing gerrymandering. Senate boundaries are permanently fixed.

In the event of death, incapacity, resignation or recall in the House or Senate, a by-election must be held within six weeks to elect a replacement Representative or Senator via ranked choice, instant runoff voting (IRV).

Elections to the House of Representatives are held once every two years while elections to the Senate are staggered with five Senate seats per home nation up for election once every three years. Each Representative serves a four-year term renewable indefinitely while each Senator serves a six-year term renewable indefinitely with no term limits. Elections to the office of President and Vice-President must be held once every four years. The President and Vice-President are directly elected on a joint ticket and are limited to two terms in office, consecutive or non-consecutive.

A state of emergency is not considered valid grounds for postponing an election at the national level and may be deemed an act of treason resulting in the President being deposed in a military coup in accordance with the constitution. However, local elections may be postponed indefinitely.

Unless Muslims exceed 25% of the population, national elections cannot be arbitrarily postponed beyond their term limits by even a single day, let alone ONE WHOLE GODFORSAKEN YEAR based on some unconvincing and flimsy pretext such as a Wuhan coronavirus pandemic that China unleashed on the whole f*cking world. Elections in Liberal Malaysia are widely considered to be free and fair by trusted international observers such as the EU, the OSCE, the OECD, the U.S. State Department, and the UK Foreign Office. However, the constitutional requirement that elections be suspended if Muslims exceed 25% of the population has been widely criticized by so-called "human rights" NGOs who can't be trusted to uphold the rights of non-Muslims and are pathologically obsessed with Israel.

There are no "functional constituencies" specially designed to rig the system in favor of a politically repressive, authoritarian regime, and Representatives and Senators alike cannot be forcibly removed from their seats on the flimsiest of pretexts such as “failing to sincerely and solemnly swear an oath to the Motherland”, especially AFTER they have already taken their seats.

In the event that a legislator dies, is incapacitated, resigns, or otherwise loses their seat, a by-election must be held within 60 days to elect a replacement lawmaker via ranked choice, instant runoff voting (IRV).

The sudden influx of tens of millions of immigrants within the span of just a few years, mainly from developed countries such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, among other countries, has all but ensured that all of the parties that once dominated old Malaysian politics have been swept aside or banned in favor of newer parties, particularly the two main parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives.

Judiciary

Liberal Malaysia’s legal system is directly inspired by the legal system of the United States of America.

The Supreme Court is the highest-ranking court in the country and the court of final appeal. Supreme Court Justices, of which there must always be nine, no more and no less, are nominated by an independent commission answerable to and approved by two-thirds of all Senators. The executive branch has absolutely no say in the nomination process. This helps to remove political intrigue from the equation altogether, thereby ensuring judicial independence.

All Supreme Court decisions must be handed down unanimously. Justices do not vote or issue dissenting opinions. This is to encourage compromise and minimize the risk of any latent political intrigue behind the scenes. The Supreme Court has the authority to interpret the constitution and rule on the constitutionality of extant laws passed by Congress and signed into law by the President. Laws ruled unconstitutional are rendered null and void. The Supreme Court also has the authority to summon government officials at any level of government should they fail to enforce specific laws (that haven’t been struck down as unconstitutional) in a manner that is fair and consistent, and either order them to do so post-haste, strike the law down, or prosecute the official(s) for contempt of court, in a manner akin to that of the Supreme Court of India. The President and Vice-President, however, enjoy legal immunity from prosecution for as long as they remain in office.

The Supreme Court is chaired by a Chief Justice, whose position is merely that of a first among equals. The Chief Justice is responsible for swearing in the President and Vice-President. No holy book is required during the swearing-in process.

Civil service

The Liberal Malaysian civil service is no longer bloated beyond reason, and in recent years, non-Malays and non-Muslims have signed up to serve the government in record numbers and now vastly outnumber Malays and Muslims with the result being a comprehensive and total erosion of institutional racism in all public institutions. The civil service also contains safeguards against incipient wokeness that were recently passed by the Liberal Tan administration.

Administrative divisions

Liberal Malaysia is divided into three home nations: Malaya, Sarawak, and North Borneo (formerly known as Sabah). Malaya is subdivided into counties, cities, consolidated city-counties, municipalities, and townships. Sarawak and North Borneo are divided into divisions which date back to the 19th century, which are further subdivided into counties, cities, consolidated city-counties, municipalities, and townships.

Local city, county, and municipal councils are devolved administrative subdivisions of the central government. Cities are typically headed by a directly elected Mayor and City Council, while counties, townships, and more rural municipalities are headed by a Council Manager who is also a serving member of the County, Township, or Municipal Council in a manner more akin to that of a Westminster-style parliamentary system. The constitution requires local elections to be held at fixed intervals ranging between six months and five years after the date of the most recent local elections unless a state of emergency has been declared or unless Muslims exceed 25% of the population in a given area.

As non-Malays and non-Muslims are now the overwhelming majority of the population and Liberal Malaysia is now totally Americanized, Westernized, and predominantly English-speaking, residents of Sarawak and North Borneo have now lost all interest in seceding from Liberal Malaysia. Malaya, Sarawak, and North Borneo all lack a devolved government of any sort. The states and federal territories that once made up old Malaysia have all been abolished.