Recent events have shown that the state of Malaysian democracy has not progressed since 1997, said veteran Umno lawmaker Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah in scathing remarks today.

“If any one of us was tempted to imagine that Malaysia had outgrown the sordid events of 1997, the government's newspapers bring to our breakfast tables each day - Sodomy II,” he said.

Tengku Razaleigh cited several more issues in the news that, he said, prove Malaysia is only a “democracy in name”.

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