ONLY one election petition has been filed against the Selangor polls result for the Gombak Setia seat, Selangor Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari said.

The Gombak Setia contest saw Barisan Nasional (BN) lose by only 58 votes.

He said election petitions planned for the Dengkil, Sungai Kandis and Taman Medan seats would not be pursued.

“I have been made to understand PKR’s legal team feels the cases (with regard to the three seats) should not go ahead,” he told reporters in Shah Alam today.

Previously, Pakatan Harapan (PH) and BN considered filing election petitions for the Sungai Kandis, Taman Medan, Gombak Setia and Dengkil seats.

Contests for the three seats saw PH-BN losing by 407 votes in Dengkil, 167 in Sungai Kandis, and 30 in Taman Medan.

Lawyer Amin Othman when contacted by Bernama said the Gombak Setia election petition was filed on September 18 at the Shah Alam High Court.

He said the petition was filed by a voter, Mohd Shaffie Omar, based on claims voters were bribed by respondent Perikatan Nasional candidate Muhamad Hilman Idham.

Amin said the hearing of the petition was set for December 11 to 22 before judge Abdul Wahab Mohamed.

In the August 12 Selangor polls, Hilman, who obtained 30,299 votes, defeated BN’s Megat Zulkarnain Omardin (30,241 votes) and Independent candidate Mohamed Salim Mohamed Ali (1,076 votes) to win the Gombak Setia seat. – Bernama, October 27, 2023.