Selangor will not hold concurrent state election unless the EC can prove a clean voter roll, says Pakatan.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Unless the Election Commission (EC) can guarantee a clean voter roll, Selangor will not join in the coming general election.
Pakatan Rakyat de facto supremo Anwar Ibrahim said that the opposition was “not convinced” with the EC’s assurance that the roll was clean.
Anwar was, however, tight-lipped on whether the other opposition-led states – Kedah, Penang and Kelantan – would follow in Selangor’s footsteps.
Selangor is the country’s most populous and richest state, with a large amount of the country’s economic and industrial development concentrated there.
“We have suggested that Selangor check [the voter rolls] closely with EC, [but] if EC cannot give the guarantee that the rolls are clean, then we have recommended that Selangor will not run together with the general election,” he told reporters in Parliament.
He said this following a meeting with Pakatan’s other leaders including PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang and DAP chief Lim Kit Siang.
According to Anwar, the decision was not discussed with Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim yet, although the opposition leader said that the latter was “agreeable” to the idea.
When told that the EC had on several occasions asserted its record is clean, Anwar angrily said: “They are either blind or completely oblivious to the realities!”
He then queried how a voter could have been moved from the Bandar Tun Razak constituency to Lembah Pantai. (The latter is expected to be a hotly-contested seat in the coming general election.)
Anwar added that from 2008 to December 2011, Selangor had also seen up to 489,705 voters added to its roll.
(There were an estimated 1.6 million registered voters in the state during the 2008 general election.)
Anwar also raised the question of the nearly 42,000 “doubtful voters”, who were confirmed by the EC to be missing from the National Registration Department’s lists.
Selangor currently has a total of 56 state seats, of which Pakatan currently holds 36. Umno holds the other 20.
It was the first time the opposition came in control of the state.
With an eye on Selangor, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak (and state BN leader) said that BN needed to win Selangor at all costs
FULL REPORT
KUALA LUMPUR: Unless the Election Commission (EC) can guarantee a clean voter roll, Selangor will not join in the coming general election.Pakatan Rakyat de facto supremo Anwar Ibrahim said that the opposition was “not convinced” with the EC’s assurance that the roll was clean.
Anwar was, however, tight-lipped on whether the other opposition-led states – Kedah, Penang and Kelantan – would follow in Selangor’s footsteps.
Selangor is the country’s most populous and richest state, with a large amount of the country’s economic and industrial development concentrated there.
“We have suggested that Selangor check [the voter rolls] closely with EC, [but] if EC cannot give the guarantee that the rolls are clean, then we have recommended that Selangor will not run together with the general election,” he told reporters in Parliament.
He said this following a meeting with Pakatan’s other leaders including PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang and DAP chief Lim Kit Siang.
According to Anwar, the decision was not discussed with Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim yet, although the opposition leader said that the latter was “agreeable” to the idea.
When told that the EC had on several occasions asserted its record is clean, Anwar angrily said: “They are either blind or completely oblivious to the realities!”
He then queried how a voter could have been moved from the Bandar Tun Razak constituency to Lembah Pantai. (The latter is expected to be a hotly-contested seat in the coming general election.)
Anwar added that from 2008 to December 2011, Selangor had also seen up to 489,705 voters added to its roll.
(There were an estimated 1.6 million registered voters in the state during the 2008 general election.)
Anwar also raised the question of the nearly 42,000 “doubtful voters”, who were confirmed by the EC to be missing from the National Registration Department’s lists.
Selangor currently has a total of 56 state seats, of which Pakatan currently holds 36. Umno holds the other 20.
It was the first time the opposition came in control of the state.
With an eye on Selangor, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak (and state BN leader) said that BN needed to win Selangor at all costs
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