Parliament watchdog MyMP is know for sharing accurate data in regards to our MPs through their website, which uses eight-bit avatars to represent Malaysian MPs with statistics and essential information about them. Through doing so, we have managed to get to know our MPs a little bit more in a more fun and light-hearted way.
Now, the platform has released a new round of findings, which they described as tongue-in-cheek and unserious regarding the most controversial and funniest MP.
In a press conference recently, MyMP founder Lau Chak Onn shared that Jelutong MP RSN Rayer and Arau MP Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim were crowned the “most controversial MPs” based on official Parliament Hansard data.
He said the titles awarded to both MPs were the analytic result of years of data scrapping through Parliament Hansard dating as far back as 2018, with the help of his team of volunteers who tabulate every instance where the house descends into a ruckus and who were the usual catalysts.
“The small team at MyMP did this by scraping the Hansards, which document every word said in Parliament, using Python programming language. They then searched for the keywords ‘parlimen riuh’ and ‘parlimen ketawa’ to identify instances which brought the house down before taking the last two names that occurred before the ruckuses,” he shared.
He added that this was to make people interested in reading the said transcripts of parliamentary debates and that the Hansard is important, as it is a way for the people to keep tabs on what their elected representatives have been doing in Parliament.
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