Projek Sama urges PM to restore Subang MP's access to funding portal

 

Project Stability and Accountability for Malaysia (Projek Sama) has urged Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to immediately restore access to the MyKhas portal for the Subang parliamentary office.

In a statement, the public interest research group cited claims that the office of Subang MP Wong Chen had been blocked from accessing constituency development funds (CDF), describing it as an abuse of power and an assault on democratic governance.

Projek Sama reminded Anwar of Pakatan Harapan’s pledge in its 15th general election manifesto to provide equal CDF allocations regardless of party affiliation.

It also cited Harapan’s promise that such allocations would be channelled through Parliament instead of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).

“Every elected MP - government or opposition - represents Malaysians who pay taxes and are entitled to equal access to public resources.

“The CDF comes from taxpayers, not the ruling parties. It must never be partisanly abused to police internal party dynamics or punish or threaten lawmakers,” the group said.

MyKhas portal for requesting special allocations

Projek Sama also called on all political parties to commit to enacting an equitable CDF law in the next general election.

It said the law should ensure that CDF is managed independently by Parliament rather than the PMO.

Alleged instructions from the top

Previously, it was reported that Wong’s office discovered on May 20 that it had been blocked from uploading Projek Mesra Rakyat applications for schools in Subang.

This was days after Wong attended the launch of Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli’s Parti Bersama Malaysia.

“A civil servant orally informed his office that the block came on explicit instructions from Putrajaya - even as other PKR MPs in Selangor retained completely unaffected access.

“To date, no official written explanation has been provided by the government for this sudden embargo,” Projek Sama noted.

Subang MP Wong Chen (fourth from left) with Rafizi Ramli and Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad’s launch of their new political venture Parti Bersama Malaysia

When contacted previously, the Prime Minister’s Department’s Implementation Coordination Unit (ICU) told Malaysiakini that it would not issue any statement on Wong’s case.

Projek Sama argued that withholding CDF access unfairly punishes constituents, including schools, welfare recipients, and community projects dependent on the allocations.

“In Subang’s case, the constituents punished include both 138,259 voters who voted for Harapan in 2022, as well as the 39,724 who did not,” it added.

The group said the Madani government could not claim to champion reform while allegedly weaponising public funds against dissenting lawmakers.

“The immediate restoration of Subang’s CDF access is the minimum expected of a government that claims to uphold democracy, accountability, and institutional reform,” it said. - Mkini