Pakatan will face any polls petition challenge
Aidila RazakPublished: May 15, 2013 2:24 PM | Updated: May 15, 2013 7:28 PM
Pakatan Rakyat is willing to face any election petition or challenge that is mounted against its wins in Penang, Selangor and Kelantan.
Pakatan Rakyat is willing to face any election petition or challenge that is mounted against its wins in Penang, Selangor and Kelantan.
Speaking to reporters today, PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim said that, to his knowledge, there has been no dispute.
"If there is a compelling (case) against seats won by the DAP, PAS or PKR, we are prepared to open up. But there is none. There is not one,” he after the Pakatan Rakyat leadership council meeting.
Also present at the press conference held after the meeting was DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang (right), who said those accusing Pakatan of hypocrisy over the claims of fraud were mistaken.
Lim said Pakatan was not questioning the entire general election but the credibility of the results in 30 parliamentary seats where there were "serious allegations of fraud and irregularities".
'No basis for Najib to be PM'
"If these are proven and these 30 seats taken away from (BN's) majority, that leaves 103 seats and (BN chief Najib Abdul Razak) has no basis to be PM," he noted.
Lim stressed that it was imperative for Najib and the Election Commission (EC) to respond to these accusations, given the massive outrage, particularly among the young voters.
One of the best ways to do so, he said, would be for the cabinet - which is to be announced at 5pm today - to call for a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) into the alleged electoral fraud.
"The EC is in the dock, and the membership of the RCI panel must be agreed upon by Pakatan and the BN.
"Only then will we be making some way towards (addressing) the outrage among Malaysians that this election has been stolen," Lim added.
Speaking to reporters today, PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim said that, to his knowledge, there has been no dispute.
Also present at the press conference held after the meeting was DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang (right), who said those accusing Pakatan of hypocrisy over the claims of fraud were mistaken.
Lim said Pakatan was not questioning the entire general election but the credibility of the results in 30 parliamentary seats where there were "serious allegations of fraud and irregularities".
'No basis for Najib to be PM'
"If these are proven and these 30 seats taken away from (BN's) majority, that leaves 103 seats and (BN chief Najib Abdul Razak) has no basis to be PM," he noted.
Lim stressed that it was imperative for Najib and the Election Commission (EC) to respond to these accusations, given the massive outrage, particularly among the young voters.
One of the best ways to do so, he said, would be for the cabinet - which is to be announced at 5pm today - to call for a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) into the alleged electoral fraud.
"The EC is in the dock, and the membership of the RCI panel must be agreed upon by Pakatan and the BN.
"Only then will we be making some way towards (addressing) the outrage among Malaysians that this election has been stolen," Lim added.
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