'Not fate but fraud and flaws, helped BN win GE'

DAP Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching says gerrymandering and unfair practices helped BN win the GE not ‘fate' as claimed by Minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan.

It is "shameful" for Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan to claim that takdir (fate) had helped BN win in the 13th general election, DAP's Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching said today.

In a statement, Teo, who is also the party's national assistant publicity secretary, said that it was "fraud and flaws" that had helped BN win the election and not fate as noted by Rahman Dahlan.

In a commentary piece published in Utusan Malaysia's weekend edition yesterday, Rahman Dahlan (right) argued that "fate and God's will determines everything" when it comes to the election results.

"It was not fate nor God's will that determined the victory of BN, but gerrymandering and unfair practices that helped BN remain in power," Teo said.

"It is like saying a rapist can marry his victim citing that fate favours their union," she said of Rahman Dahlan's statement.

"Out of 130 smallest parliamentary seats in the country, BN had won 112 of them. Their parliamentary majority was largely attributed to the constituencies with small number of voters, not because God favoured them," she further added.

She said that Rahman Dahlan's statement shows that BN and its leader have "no intention" to rectify electoral weaknesses and flaws or address the fraud issues highlighted by Pakatan.

"Phantom voters, malapportionment and postal vote fraud were not determined by God, but are man made," she added.