: Gabungan Demokrasi Tempatan and its pool of experts are ready assist Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin in carrying out research on local council elections.
“We believe that local council elections would make local government officers like mayors and councillors more accountable to the ratepayers they are serving and would bring about improved services, usher in innovations and curb corrupt practices,“ they said in a statement today. “It would also encourage greater citizen-participation and sense of ownership by citizens in the improvement and development of communities around the country,“ they said.