Just recently we witnessed a change of government in Malaysia. It did not happen through elections but because a relatively small group of parliament members crossed the floor from the government camp to the opposition camp so that the latter had a majority in the Dewan Rakyat, the national parliament of Malaysia. At first view, this is not a tragedy but quite a common procedure in a parliamentary system where, in contrast to presidential systems of government like in Indonesia or the United States, the government relies on the constant support of a parliamentary majority. In 2018, for example, the prime ministers of Spain and Sweden, Mariano Rajoy and Stefan Löfven, were removed from their positions after motions of no confidence were successful. In Germany, long-term government leader Helmut Kohl became for the first time chancellor in 1982 after he convinced the relative...

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