COMMENT | PAS' image dented by election court ruling

COMMENT | By now, I believe most of us would have known that the Election Court in Terengganu invalidated Ahmad Amzad Hashim’s victory in the Kuala Terengganu parliamentary seat during last year’s 15th general election (GE15).

The decision was in respect of the election petition filed by Mohd Zubir Embong, the BN candidate for the seat, challenging the validity of the result.

In GE15, Amzad - who was the PAS candidate then - won the seat with a very handsome majority of 40,907 votes. Was the said election victory really fair and clean? The election court seemed to think otherwise.

In declaring PAS’ victory null and void, the learned judge, inter alia, ruled that the said election was substantially marred by corrupt practices, hence infringing the Election Offences Act 1954 (Act 5).

Indeed, it was a bizarre twist of events...