My Say: Opportunities for governance upgrade in post-pandemic phase

Some countries were already in a governance crisis before Covid, and I would place Malaysia among them. In some ways, Malaysian politics survives on maintaining an unending sense of crisis, in one way or another. Whichever the case, the Covid crisis did come at exactly the same time that the country was already in a new self-generated political crisis. The Malaysian public believes that the way their country is organised is self-damaging, lackadaisical and irretrievably held captive by political games. Train and employ technocrats, enhance technocratic procedures in governance again, and balance them against the position of bureaucrats and politicians.