Court to hear on April 11 Bersih 2.0’s bid to stop re-delineation report

Asila Jalil Asila Jalil Updated 6 years ago · Published on 29 Mar 2018 2:31PM · 2 Comments

(From left) Former Bersih 2.0 chairman Maria Chin Abdullah, acting chairman Shahrul Aman Mohd Saari and their lawyer Ambiga Sreenevasan at the Shah Alam High Court today. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, March 29, 2018.

THE Shah Alam High Court has adjourned to April 11 the legal challenge filed by Bersih 2.0 to stop the tabling of the Election Commission’s re-delineation report.

The decision was made by justice Azimah Omar in chambers.

“Arguments were heard by both parties, including the argument whether it is academic, and the court has adjourned the matter to April 11 for decision,” said lawyer Ambiga Sreenevasan.

Ambiga also said the court will also look into whether the election can proceed as a decision on the case has yet to be made.

“I’m assuming they (EC) will respect the court and not do anything that will undermine the court,” she added.

Acting Bersih chairman Shahrul Aman Mohd Saari said the motion on the re-delineation report should not have been tabled in Parliament yesterday.

“We hope the prime minister (Najib Razak) will not dissolve Parliament because there is an ongoing court case,” he said.

On March 21, 107 objectors, who represented more than 10,000 Selangor voters, filed an application to stop the tabling of EC’s re-delineation report.

Shahrul had said the each objector represented more than 100 voters, and are from 17 state and 11 parliamentary constituencies.

The Dewan Rakyat yesterday has accepted the motion to redraw the electoral boundaries. – March 29, 2018.
 

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  • I am almost in tears every time I read of Bersih or some other NGO or GO resorting to the courts to do what they are too lazy or too incompetent to do for themselves. Surely it must be universally accepted that nobody will ever win against BN in the courts. So why keep on doing it? Why keep on wasting time and money doing something you know will fail? Meanwhile the opposition parties which you should be supporting and lobbying have served up an election manifesto which is pure unadulterated vote buying garbage. A document not worth the paper it’s printed on because there is no commitment. A document to be ignored after GE14. Just a collection of mindless Malaysian promises...the most empty of all promises. There is no structure to Harapan, no ideology. It is nothing more than the off-the-cuff ramblings of a collection of very insincere and very selfish individuals. Bersih and Harapan should have been actively campaigning on their reforms and they should have had a fully scripted program as to how the EC is to be reformed. But they have nothing. In fact they have no program on anything. Yet they have been piss-farting around for decades with the concept of an alternative government. All along they have been a hoax, a Chinese delusion, thinking that if they talk long enough and about enough irrelevant nonsense then people will eventually come to believe them. Sorry fools. It’s not going to happen. You have betrayed the Malaysian people and you have betrayed the future.



    Posted 6 years ago by Dennis Da Menace · Reply

    • yawn. go cry about it to your aunty mum and uncle dad, you brainless product of inbreeding.

      Posted 6 years ago by Tommy richard · Reply