PROMINENT lawyer Ambiga Sreenevasan said PKR will lose its moral right to claim that it is a reformist party following its polls, which has been plagued with allegations of misconduct and fraud.
Taking to Twitter, Ambiga said PKR had played a key role in the country’s election reform, but its internal party polls were marred with fraud and internal fights.
“PKR will soon lose the moral high ground to call itself a reformist. At the very least, it needs to believe in clean and fair elections to be reformists. They did. Some years ago. When they helped start the Bersih movement,” she tweeted.
She continued by saying that the party was mistaken if it thought the public was not aware of what was happening in PKR.
Ambiga said that PKR should know better after criticising Barisan Nasional for its wrongdoing during the country’s general election.
“PKR should not assume for one minute that the majority of Malaysians cannot see what’s going on in their elections. After all, they saw through the shenanigans of the last government and threw them out! 13,000 increase in members in one day? Really?” she tweeted, referring to the controversy around the Julau PKR polls.
Earlier today, Sarawak PKR information chief Vernon Kedit lodged a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, this time over “blatant and unbridled” vote-buying in the Julau division.
The Betong division chief said he was at the MACC office in Jalan Laksamana Cheng Ho, Kuching, to submit “incontrovertible evidence of the carefully engineered and orchestrated scheme to intentionally manipulate our party’s election process and outcome”.
The results of Saturday’s polls in Julau have been suspended after police seized several tablets used in the e-voting process that were allegedly hacked.
Kedit described the evidence, stored in a thumb drive, as “shocking and explosive”.
“The details are sickening, and the modus operandi disgusting, to say the least.
“The damning evidence speaks for itself, and we’ll leave it to MACC to take the appropriate action.
“We thank, honour, and praise the brave people of Julau for coming forward to expose these corrupt practices, which are an outright mockery of what our party stands for,” Kedit said.
PKR central election committee systems and IT unit head Alvin Teoh was arrested at Sibu airport yesterday morning before he boarded a flight back to Kuala Lumpur, and was questioned for four hours.
This followed police reports lodged by supporters of deputy president candidate Rafizi Ramli claiming that Teoh had downloaded the “Prey Anti-Theft” app on some tablets used in Julau.
He has been released on bail.
Supporters of Azmin Ali believe that Teoh has been made the scapegoat for the Rafizi camp’s “failure” to get 8,000 voters to turn up and cast their ballots.
Kedit lodged his first MACC report on October 25, over the “irregular and illegal” registration of some 12,000 new members in Julau.
Division chief candidate Larry Sng previously said Julau had only 603 members on June 26, and a mere day later, the number shot up to 13,000.
“As we have said before, many of these members (who turned up to vote) were dubiously registered,” said Kedit.
“Multiple police reports were lodged by members, who said they had been registered without their knowledge or consent.
“Various independent analysts have provided corroborating facts to validate our allegations. And yet, no action was taken by the party’s governing body to remedy the situation. Instead, ‘no foul play or fraud’ was the finding of the party secretariat.”
PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said he could not act on the matter because by the time the issue was raised, the membership lists for all divisions had been finalised, following the end of the objection period.
the malaysian insight
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