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Promise 12: Limit the Prime Minister’s term of office and

restructure the Prime Minister’s Department

Under the administration of UMNO and Barisan Nasional, Dato’ Sri

Najib Tun Razak has monopolized all important powers, and Cabinet
Ministers has become nothing but mere yes-men. Pakatan Harapan will

reform the role of the Cabinet and the Prime Minister's Department as a

whole so that the collective Cabinet administration system can be brought
back into Malaysia.

The length of office for the Prime Minister shall be limited to two terms only.
This will also be applied to the post of Menteri Besar and Chief Ministers.

The Prime Minister will not simultaneously hold other ministerial posts,
especially the post of Minister of Finance.

The number of Minister and Deputy Ministers in the Prime Minister’s
Department now is too large. There are 10 Ministers and 3 Deputy Ministers

in the Prime Minister’s Department. This raises the question of what role

they actually play.

The Pakatan Harapan Government will lower the number of Ministers in the
Prime Minister's Department to a maximum of 3 only. Other responsibilities

will be passed to the rightful ministries.

The current financial allocation to the Prime Minister’s Department is also

too big, allowing the possibility of a wide range of misconduct at the highest

level. In the first year of our administration, we will reduce the allocation to
the Prime Minister's Department from more than RM17 billion per annum

now to less than half, that is RM8 billion only.

The Prime Minister’s Department currently has too many agencies, creating

overlaps with agencies in other ministries, and making the Prime Minister

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