Wataniah corps not postal voters, EC tells PAS
The Election Commission today gave its assurance to Pakatan Rakyat representatives that members of the Territorial Army (Wataniah) corps to be set up in parliamentary constituencies will not become postal voters.
The Election Commission today gave its assurance to Pakatan Rakyat representatives that members of the Territorial Army (Wataniah) corps to be set up in parliamentary constituencies will not become postal voters.
"We have received a clear guarantee from the EC chairman Abdul Aziz Yusof that for Wataniah. There will be no postal voting," said PAS secretary general Mustafa Ali.
Mustafa (left) was speaking on behalf of the Pakatan delegation which held a meeting with EC chairperson Abdul Aziz Yusoff and other commissioners at Putrajaya this afternoon.
Following the federal government’s announcement of its plan to form Wataniah corps in each parliamentary constituency, the opposition raised fears that they would become postal voters.
Mustafa also told reporters that the EC chairperson also revealed that the electoral district re-delination exercise is still in the study stage.
"They are only studying it. The study will start in March this year, so if polls is in 2011, it will not involve any re-delination," said the PAS leader.
Following the federal government's announcement of plans to form Wataniah companies in each parliamentary constituency, the opposition has raised fear that they will be turned into postal voters.
Accompanying him was DAP youth chief Anthony Loke, DAP research arm Refsa executive director Liew Chin Tong, PKR parliamentarian R Sivarasa and Abdul Halim Rahman of PAS. voters.
