ELECTION petitions to annul the results of four seats won by Perikatan Nasional (PN) in the Selangor elections last month will be filed soon, Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari said.

“They (petitions) are being fine-tuned. Insya-Allah, they will be filed soon, we are waiting for the process of the gazette decision that has been done,” he told reporters after officiating the Selangor-level 2023 Fit Malaysia programme in Kuala Langat, today.

Earlier, the Election Commission (EC) announced that the results and voting statements, after the official tallying of votes in the six-state elections, were gazetted on August 29.

Prior to this, Pakatan Harapan (PH) and Barisan Nasional (BN) were considering filing election petitions to annul the results of the Sungai Kandis, Taman Medan, Gombak Setia and Dengkil seats, where the victory margins were narrow.

The results for the four seats saw PH-BN lose by 407 votes in Dengkil, Sungai Kandis (167), Gombak Setia (58) and Taman Medan (30).

Amirudin, who is also Selangor PH chairman, said the matter had been discussed in a meeting of the political bureau and the state leadership council with a team of lawyers who would do further research on the cases involving the four seats.

Six states – Kedah, Penang, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Terengganu and Kelantan – went to the polls on August 12. – Bernama, September 2, 2023.