KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 — Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has called on the Election Commission to hold off on its decision in the local council election issue and urged its chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof to discuss the matter with him first.
Lim told a press conference at the Parliament lobby here this morning that this was to show whether the EC would be truly unbiased in making its decision and not seem as if it were bending to the will of certain parties.
The Penang government, in a state executive council meeting earlier this month, had decided to invoke its powers to restore the “third vote” and had sent a letter to the EC on March 4, urging it to conduct the elections. The Selangor state government had subsequently joined the Penang government in its bid bring back local council elections and also communicated this to the commission.
The Prime Minister has since said that restoring local council elections, which was abandoned since 1965, was unnecessary and would only create further politicking.
Abdul Aziz said in a press conference yesterday that the EC would announce its decision on the matter earliest by next week.
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