Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor today reiterated that he will not allow Dataran Merdeka to be used as the venue for the Bersih 5 rally this Saturday.

He said that as already been stressed, Kuala Lumpur City (DBKL) would not give approval for the venue to be used for the purpose.

He noted that the rally should not be taking place as there was nothing more to be 'dibersihkan' (cleaned).

"My advice is, no need to hold the rally. Red, yellow, green, blue or whatever. We need to be rational, do we want to stir up trouble?

"If the elections are not clean, how come there are 80 opposition MPs in (the 222-seat) Parliament?

"If the system is dirty, how come the opposition can be in power in Selangor and Penang," he told reporters after handing over keys to 10 buyers of Rumah Mampu Milik Wilayah Persekutuan (Rumawip) Residensi Rampai housing units in Kuala Lumpur today.

Bersih, whose colour theme is yellow, is a movement calling for electoral reform in the country.

However, another movement called the red-shirts, which alleges that Bersih is serving a foreign agenda to topple the current government, has threatened to hold a counter-rally at the same venue at the same time.

In Kota Kinabalu, city police chief ACP M Chandra said Bersih's planned rally in Taman Ujana Rimba this Saturday would be illegal as it did not fulfill requirements under the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012.

"On Nov 2, we received a notice from them for permission to hold the rally.

However, they did not get permission from the owner of the venue to hold the gathering and as such this made it difficult for us to issue a permit," he said.

In Kuching, Sarawak police commissioner Mazlan Mansor said police had drawn up strategies on handling the Bersih 5 rally planned to be held in the city this Saturday.

He said that he had been made to understand that the organisers had failed to get permission from the owner of the venue selected for the rally (Amphitheatre in Jalan Taman Budaya).

"We have the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012. My advice is that rallygoers look at their own agendas, I cannot advise anyone to go or not go, we have laws and if laws are broken, we will act," he said.

- Bernama