Since it is under the purview of the Prime Minister's Department, the commission is not considered to be an independent body. Arguably, this is going to be the main contention of the reform promises announced by the Prime Minister Najib Razak.
Bersih accused the EC of failing to investigate 3.1 million voters whose personal details are different from the electoral roll. Opposition parties have submitted their own complaints on the electoral roll as well. Electoral roll is the most essential basis for a clean and fair election process.
Other complaints included the presence of foreigners, duplicate voters, phantom voters and other irregularities on the voters list. However, the EC has reacted in the most predictable manner. It has decided to give itself a top mark for transparency and efficiency. Its Chairman Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof claimed that Malaysia's electoral roll was the cleanest in the world. He said only 42,000 of 12.6 million voters are considered unverifiable.
It is predictable too for Abdul Aziz to react this way since the EC has not been doing much to improve the electoral system on its own. It does not display any initiative nor sincerity to ensure that there's a level playing field. This is why putting the EC under the purview of the PM's department is going to further complicate the situation. Abdul Aziz and his men may not find it a duty and an obligation to be accountable to the parliament and ultimately the voters.
I would like to see Abdul Aziz address the issue of even 42,000 dubious voters. This number is enough to tilt the outcome of the next general election and which may even help to determine who's the next leader of this country. Instead of blowing his own trumpet, he should immediately instruct his people to address the discrepancy.
It is unproductive to go through the denial game again and again. We need to believe Abdul Aziz's words and promise to keep the electoral process fair and transparent.
If the EC does not address the discrepancy in the electoral roll immediately and swiftly before the general election, the commission cannot avoid mounting pressure for the chairman and his committee to step down.
Its negative reaction so far gives credibility and relevance to Bersih 3.0. The authorities, especially the DBKL, should not try to frame the peaceful protest as a political campaign. It is a demonstration of people's frustration with the pace of reforms and a lack of sincerity from the ruling regime and its appointees.
EC has less than 48 hours to announce its plans to clean up the electoral roll or face a major protest against its impotency and irrelevance.
2 comments:
Why is the best electoral roll in the world having so ,ouch troubles of deception almost every day ?
The EC got away with every imaginable deception you can think so and that is why and how the grand son of the pariah from Kerala, the shenanigan Mahathir managed to remain in power for 22 years and the deceitful and corrupted scumbags and corrupted morons too has remained as the watchdog since independence.
But it is better late than never to expose the many deceptions used. Just don't forget to have these lackeys and their 'masters' probed and indicted and most of all send to jail and it must include the shenanigan Mahathir. Make sure to have his body or corpse paraded in the shopping mall for all Malaysians to spit, pee and shit on. Don't forget to seize back all the 'commissions' he stacked away in his foreign accounts including that of his sons, his proxies and his cronies. Just the way they did to Gaddafi !
This cheating in the GE is nothimg new and has been happening obviously(in Sabah)and is an open secret,of foreigners been able to vote since the time of Dr Mahathir.
The only thing now is that phantom and dubious voters are appearing on the electoral rolls by the hundreds of thousands uncheck,as this is the first time that Umno in55 years of rule might actually lose the GE and federal power.
The EC is actually a bunch of rejects being appointed as cronies to take orders to fulfill the objectives of their political masters.The only time the EC will change is when the corrupted Umno and its siblings are chased out of Putrajaya.
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