KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 16 -- The parliamentary whips of all parties have agreed "in principle" to push for a legal amendment that could end the political defection menace, Padang Rengas MP Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz said.

The former facto law minister, who leads the bipartisan parliamentary caucus on electoral reforms, told Malay Mail this agreement was reached in informal meetings to deliberate on the matter.

Mohamed Nazri, a trained lawyer, said that the amendment to the Election Commission Act 1957 to enforce a party-list system, in which voters would elect parties rather than individuals, only needed a simple majority to be approved.

He said this was unlike the two-thirds majority necessary for amendments to the Federal Const...