Electoral group defies Pandikar, will upload redelineation report

Noel Achariam Liow Sze Xian Noel Achariam, Liow Sze Xian Updated 6 years ago · Published on 27 Mar 2018 2:00PM · 10 Comments

Wong Chin Huat, member of electoral reform group Engage, says the group will upload the redelineation report embargoed by Parliament on its website. Wong will also pay the RM1,000 that comes with the offence. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Farhan Nazmi, March 27, 2018.

AN electoral reform pressure group will be uploading the embargoed redelination report on its website, in defiance of a directive by Dewan Rakyat speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia.

Wong Chin Huat, a member of Engage said, it will upload the more than 1000-page report on its website in the next few hours.

“This is report is crucial for all Malaysians to read because what is being done in the redelineation process is not right.

“The report should be scrapped because the inquiry processes in the report was a complete sham,” he said at the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall today.

Wong said that the report should be up on the website within the next hour.

“After this press conference, I will go to Parliament and pay my RM1,000 fine.

“I am breaking the law consciously and respectfully for all Malaysians so they will be able to view the report,” he declared.

The EC’s report was issued to MPs on Thursday but lawmakers are barred from releasing or distributing it before it is debated and endorsed by Parliament tomorrow.

Pandikar had said the document, which is available only to MPs, cannot be distributed or published until it is tabled by the government. 

“Why is the report under embargo, as it will affect the future of all Malaysians for the next two elections?

“The powers that be don’t want Malaysians to know (the content before their MPs vote on it tomorrow) so I feel compelled to reveal what I have learned from studying through the two volumes of the reports.

“Malaysians need to know some of the alarming and disastrous implications of this proposal.”

Wong said he violated Section 9 of the House of Parliament (Privileges and Powers) Act by releasing the report.

He also called on all parliamentarians to vote against the report.

Selangor Menteri Besar Mohamed Azmin Ali had said Pandikar’s decision to embargo the report is a betrayal to democracy.

The Gombak MP said the redelineation proposal for Peninsular Malaysia had been displayed to the public in one form or another over the past 18 months.

“There is no valid reason that the speaker of Parliament should withhold the final report from the public since it directly affects their democratic right to elect representatives to Parliament.  

“Withholding this is nothing more than an act of sheer arbitrariness,” he said. – March 27, 2018.

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  • How many electoral reform groups are there in this dysfunctional country? How many hundreds of NGO’s as every Tong, Dileep and Khairul pushes his own barrow and refuses to cooperate with anyone else? How many of these ‘experts on everything’ have made any effort to work with the ‘less-than-useless’ opposition of non-coalescing coalition. Malaysians are their own worst enemies with their delusions of their self importance and their inability to work with others for fear of damaging their own precious egos

    Posted 6 years ago by Dennis Da Menace · Reply

    • How many fake bullshit accounts have been made here, spewing fake, bullshit comments like this one from Dennis Madden/Dennis Da Menace? Just shut the fuck up you dumb cunt.

      Posted 6 years ago by Tommy richard · Reply

    • Thank Tommy. Thanks for your intelligent input. Every time you open you mouth you convince more Malaysians that a vote for PH is a vote for men like you. Not that the majority of Malaysians don’t know that already

      Posted 6 years ago by Dennis Da Menace · Reply

    • Gladly, on this electoral issue, all the electoral NGOs share the same sentiment and stand on one line.

      Posted 6 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

    • And thank you for your "input", 'Dennis'. Every time you open your mouth, not only do you reveal your lack of brain capacity, but the obvious fact that you're just another one of those cybertroopers paid by BN to post crap comments on this website. Somebody has to call you out on your BS, and I'm happy to play that role. Take Tong, Dileep, and Khairul with you and jump into a lake somewhere, preferably outside Malaysia. And if you think people are convinced to vote one way or another based on the comments section on a free website, you're even more of an idiot than your comments reveal, lmao. What an imbecile.

      Posted 6 years ago by Tommy richard · Reply

    • Here we go again. Some people always have to find someone to blame whenever a situation arises that is contrary to their righteous opinion. And as usual the whipping boy is BN, because as ‘everyone’ knows they are responsible for everything that is wrong. Its clearly beyond the mental capacity of PH supporters to entertain the concept of black and white ie PH is NOT aways right and BN is NOT always wrong. The fact that I accuse PH of being UMNOist seems to have slipped some person’s mind

      Posted 6 years ago by Dennis Da Menace · Reply

    • Tommy, the really sad thing about your opinions is that they are not your opinions. Throughout your life you have been manipulated by people who do not want you to think for yourself. So now you are again being manipulated to support someone else’s agenda. That can be seen by the fact that you have no opinions about PH/anything apart from the ones you have been told to have. You have decided on scant evidence that Najib is guilty until proven innocent, you have lauded the appalling performance of PH simply to prove to yourself that what you have been told is right... and hence you are right. And you have been told that anyone who disagrees with you has got to be wrong. Hence your need to resort to insults and invective because you cannot build an argument OF YOUR OWN to counter criticism of your opinions. Fortunately, people like you are in the minority and there are a majority of Malaysians who can see through the hoax that is PH.

      Posted 6 years ago by Dennis Da Menace · Reply

  • Well he did say he was next to god in his arbitrary powers

    Posted 6 years ago by Ramamurthi ram · Reply

  • If ever MCA, Gerakan, MyPPP, n BN component parties voted for the redelineation, it will show to the rakyat that they didn't bother what is just n fair play, n abused their power for their own personal gains. All the talk about serving the rakyat is rubbish.

    Posted 6 years ago by Peace Maker · Reply

  • Watch out, Bulldozer is coming, with escorts!

    Posted 6 years ago by Shiaw Loh · Reply