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I disagree. It's not because of parliamentary system.Mahathir is not a dictator, but at those years, UMNO, a Malay political party has full support of Malay voters while after the year 2000, Malay ethnic voters are divided into several parties and it makes competition between parties get stronger and produce weaker government than during Mahathir period.
Parliamentary system is famous as making many weak government if there is no strong political party in the system, take a look on Today politics in Israel, Malaysia, and Britain for example.
There are many factors which may result in many weak governments. Such as
- Voting system:
- Winner-take-all voting systems
- proportional representation voting systems
- How divided the country is, culturally, ethnically, geographically