Bersatu unable to furnish reports to ROS by deadline - Muhyiddin

Bersatu will not be able to furnish minutes of meetings of its divisions and branches by the deadline given by the Registrar of Societies (ROS), said its president Muhyiddin Yassin.

He said this was because ROS had only approved the setting up of the divisions last July and that no organisation held an annual general meeting in less than one year of its establishment.

As for the branches, he said, for now, the party was still in the process of setting up branches and getting ROS approval for them, thus no branch meetings could be held.

“It is not that we cannot meet what ROS wants…so I think this is a logic of the regulations, other matters are not a problem, so let’s resolve these first and after that wait for the outcome from ROS,” he told a press conference in Muar today.

ROS had sent a notice to Bersatu on Feb 28 to furnish the said reports as well as its financial report within 30 days from that date or face the risk of de-registration.

Muhyiddin added that the audit financial report needed a little bit more time to be completed before it was submitted to ROS.

Asked about Bersatu's plans if the party was de-registered, Muhyiddin said he did not want to go into it because what was important now was for the party to meet ROS’ requirements.

-- Bernama