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MyMP financials for 2022-2023: Which political party funded us?

Hey guys,   Just in the spirit of transparency, here’s how we were funded, and spent money for our first full financial year. Yep. It’s not much. TBH our main (and only) funder up till March last year was our dear old friends at the Malaysian Centre for Constitutionalism and Human Rights (MCCHR). Yes, the […]

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PontengWatch: All parties improved in attendance, except PRS, MIC

So we’ve just updated the following info up to 30th November 2023 HANSARD motions and Parlimentary questions (Preevena, Ghaffur, Hafiz, Brandon1, Wun Shen, Farhanah, Mixsbobic, Yazid, Abner, Sophie and Haikal!) Attendance (adham!) Service Centre contacts and Socmed (Brandon, Sharifah, Rien, Depp, Zafir, Sunesha, Syawal and Zuliham)! Big shout out to our volunteers there – We […]

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GE15: Were the dropped MPs better than the ones that were kept?

YES WE ARE ALIVEEEEE.  Sorry for the long hiatus. In the two months since the election, A LOT has happened.  We are in the midst of applying for a few grants that will keep us running this year. We’ve already gotten a renew on the MCCHR grant that started us out in 2020 🙂 (site […]

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A full list of all dropped incumbents for GE15 (and how they performed in Parlimen)

So first off, don’t flame us if we missed anyone, because there are ALOT of drops this GE15 (let us know in the comments tho!). So many, that it’s definitely one of the main topics of conversation. While some are still running in other capacities or for other parties, and others are relinquishing their seats […]

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PontengWatch: Guess which former PM is at the bottom of our Parlimen Attendance list?

So we took a while to compile this latest set of data as our previous scraper left the project. However, we’d like to welcome our new scraper, Isaac 🙂 He’s currently working on our ultimate HANSARD data scraper, but here’s something we have right now – the trend chart of the sessions which attendance is […]

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MYMP launches its NFT campaign “Now everyone Can Buy MPs”

1 APRIL 2021, PJ – We are happy today to announce MyMP’s NFT Auction, entitled “NOW, EVERYONE Can Buy MPs!”. We have secured 10 MPs for our first sale, available at our OpenSea page for sale at 6pm April 1st 2022 here.  https://opensea.io/collection/mymp-collection. This sale is effectively a fundraiser to run and further develop MyMP in […]

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MyMP grew up, so we’re moving out. Introducing…

When we came up with the idea for an RPG-tracker for Malaysian politicians, we wanted to test the waters first, and thus myself and Seah decided that the path of least resistance would be teaming up with MCCHR. For those who don’t know, starting up a company can be quite a pain, and quite expensive, […]

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The kesian MyMP volunteers helping us track Malaysian politicians

MyMP might look like fun RPG, but the stats are real. Our goal was always to provide the public with an easy reference to the performance of their MP, and we wanted that to be based on objective data (nanti org kata DAPig ke, Cybertrooper ke)… While quite alot of MP data is made available […]

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So, MACC just removed all previous asset declarations of MPs

Back in 2015, there were viral social media posts (which have since been removed) and news reports on MalaysiaKini and Cilisos that dissected the watches worn by our politicians. Some of the prices of these watches alone were going deep into 6-figures which raises questions as to how our politicians were able to afford them […]

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It started with the fall of Pakatan

Just before we knew what an MCO was, the nation was caught up in another K-drama (Kerajaan Drama) known as the Sheraton Move. And despite there being what appeared to be winners, the general feel amongst Malaysians was that everyone was a loser. During that eventful March, and in the ensuing months, amidst the world-beating […]