PR sues EC-7, seeks to declare GE13 void

Pakatan Rakyat today named seven members of the Election Commission in a lawsuit over the body's biased conduct of the May 5 general election.

The seven are EC's top duo Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof and his deputy Wan Ahmad Wan Omar, and fellow commissioners Mohamad Ramji Ali, P. Manogran, Christopher Wan Soo Kee, Md Yusop Mansor and Abdul Aziz Khalidin.

The suit was filed by lawyer and PKR's Subang R Sivarasa at the Kuala Lumpur High Court, on behalf of five PR candidates who include Dzulkefly Ahmad, M. Manoharan, Saifuddin Nasution, Ariffin Abd Rahman and Abbo Rajoo, all of whom will be represented by well known constitutional lawyer Tommy Thomas.

Among others, they want a declaration that the results of the general election were null and void due to fraud as well as the failure of the indelible ink exercise.

Announcing the suit, PKR's Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar said the suit was being targeted at each of the EC commissioners rather than the EC collectively, adding that each member must be accountable over the series of problems encountered.

PAS's deputy secretary general Takiyuddin Hassan meanwhile pointed out that filing the lawsuit was the proper way of addressing electoral fraud since the police had failed to initiate its investigation on the EC despite thousands of police reports.

DAP Youth chief Anthony Loke questioned the refusal of the authorities to name the supplier of the ink used on voters, adding that now that election was over, the EC had no reason to hide details about the ink. -HD