EC chief, deputy chief to be hauled to court next week for fraud against the nation - Nurul

Malaysia's Opposition will next week file a lawsuit against the Election Commission chairman and deputy chairman for "fraud against the nation", Member of Parliament for Lembah Pantai Nurul Izzah told an 80,000-strong crowd at a rally to protest the outcome of the recently-concluded 13th general election.

"We will make sure they pay for their criminal acts, we will make sure justice prevails in this country of ours. And when the case goes to court, I urge all Malaysians to turn up to show support to our lawyers.

"And don't forget, the moment they can, they will call for a Parliament sitting and try to re-delineate some seats. You know what they will do? They know they are strong in seats like Sungei Besar, so they will split Sungei Besar into 2 parliament seats and combine Pandan and Ampang for example. But we will be waiting. We will mobilize the people to protest in large numbers to stop them from this re-delineation."

"You can cheat the people some of the time but not all the time. So tonight we will gather, we will make sure we know the truth, and we will fight them hard especially to make sure no unfair re-delineation takes place."

Both the EC chairman Abdul Aziz Yusoff and his deputy Wan Ahmad Wan Omar are no strangers to accusations of bias and vested interests. They are believed to be members of Umno and despite calls for them to quit on the basis of a lack of neutrality, they have refused to do so.

On Monday, first thing to do is to lodge a police report

Prime Minister Najib Razak's umno-BN coalition won 133 of the federal parliament's 222 seats and the Pakatan Rakyat led by Anwar Ibrahim 89 seats. However,

Anwar has refused to concede defeat, citing systemic and widespread cheating. The Pakatan plans to file election petitions in at least 27 seats where they claim to have uncovered "conclusive" evidence of vote buying, vote rigging as well as phantom voters. They want re-elections in these seats.

Another key grouse is the indelible used by the EC, which it had promised would stay on for 5 days. However, on the May 5 balloting day the majority of Malaysia's 13 million-strong electorate found to their shock the ink could be washed off within the hour. This would render the ink useless as a weapon against multiple voting by a single person - the very reason why the ink had been bought for use in the first place.

Also at the same event was Anwar, who is also Nurul's dad. In his speech, Anwar called on all Malaysians who encountered electoral fraud on balloting day to lodge police reports. This would help to strength the case against the EC, said the 64-year-old.

"On Monday, the first thing you should do is to lodge a police report against the EC," said Anwar. "Our lawyers are now gathering information. Yes we have more confidence in the people's court (than the country's scandal-tainted judiciary) but we have to go through the process.

No plans for BERSIH 4.0 yet: Focus now on people's Tribunal

Ambiga Sreenvasan, the co-chairman of the BERSIH movement for free and fair polls, also minced no words lambasting the EC's alleged bias in helping the Umno-BN win through fraud.

In her speech, she spoke of the establishment of a People's Tribunal to investigate the pile of complaints from the electorate. However, she told Malaysia Chronicle at the sidelines of the rally that her committee was not planning BESIH 4.0 at the moment.

"Don't give up. We are going to have a People's Tribunal to tell the truth. They may have the forces but we are going to have the most powerful weapon in our hands. We are going to have truth and we are going to use that. Anyone who has evidence, please come forward and I know you are brave enough to do that," said Ambiga.

"This Election Commission, if they have any self-respect should resign immediately on this one ground, on the ground of indelible ink. Do you know in my opinion, the indelible ink is a fraud is a fraud on the Malaysian people. They refused to demonstrate (the quality of the ink) and now we know why. Any EC worth its salt would have resigned in embarrassment."