Bersih 4.0 if EC bulldozes through re-delineation

Electoral reforms pressure group Bersih has threatened to hold mass rallies if the Election Commission (EC) proceeds with the re-delineation exercise without cleaning the electoral roll first.

"We are going to build up and what I can tell is we are going to do our best that it (re-delineation) does not happen before the electoral roll is cleaned up.

"It is that serious, that is the message I want to get across," Bersih co-chairperson Ambiga Sreevenasan told journalists after an electoral reform forum at the Bar Council headquaters in Kuala Lumpur today.

Ambiga still hoped that the EC won't proceed with the exercise until the integrity of the electoral roll is assured and avoid the protest.

"We want to educate people first, and then may be they will respond and say they may clean up the electoral roll first, but I'm not holding my breath.

"It is as simple as that, all they have to do is say we will stop and clean up the electoral roll first," she said.

Election Commission chief Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof had said that the re-delineation process will begin at the end of this year.

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