PETALING JAYA, Feb 16 — The Election Commission (EC) defended today Australian Senator Nick Xenophon’s deportation from Malaysia, saying that immigration authorities were merely performing their duty.
EC deputy chairman Datuk Wan Ahmad Wan Omar also said that it was unjust to judge the fairness of Election 2013 based on Xenophon’s expulsion.
“I think it’s an insult to the intelligence of Malaysians,” Wan Ahmad (picture) told reporters here today.
“They don’t have to rely on the opinion of this one fellow to make a conclusion,” he said.
Xenophon was detained at the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal in Sepang this morning and will be deported later tonight.
Xenophon had planned to meet Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, de facto law minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz and EC officials next week to discuss the country’s electoral system, according to Anwar’s chief of staff, Ibrahim Yaacob.
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What happened to Malaysia?
ReplyDeleteDeath coverups to plenty of Malaysian citizens, closing door to French lawyers, missing immigration records of Mongolia citizens, now deporting Australian diplomats too. Why no actions against the armed terrorist in Sabah?
Welcome them in with wide-open arms and greet them with tapai or instant-IC? It is becoming more like a police state right now, very sad indeed to see the country fallen to this deplorable state.......