Its vice-president Datuk Huan Cheng Guan, who lost in the four-cornered fight won by DAP’s Ramkarpal Singh, said he had evidence of wrongdoings committed by DAP on polling day.
Huan said he had already lodged a report with the Election Commission and that he would file a petition in the High Court within 21 days of results being gazetted. The court would then be required to hear and settle the petition within six months from the date of filing.
“I am not doing this because I am sore over the results. I have video clips and proof to show that the DAP broke all rules and regulations in this by-election,” he said at a press conference at the party’s premises in Air Itam, Monday.
“They claim their voluntary patrol unit members were not canvassing for votes on polling day, but I have video clips as proof,” he added.
Huan went on to claim that he had photographic evidence of a poster of Ramkarpal having been put up in front of a school, some 10m away from a polling station in defiance of the rule that no campaign material be placed within a 50m radius.
The PCM vice-president further questioned the state government for mobilising all its elected representatives, including state executive councillor Phee Boon Poh, to be stationed outside polling stations.
“Didn’t they have better things to do? These are the elected representatives of the people,” he said.
Huan secured 3,583 votes in the by-election won by Ramkarpal, who polled 41,242 and won by a whopping majority of 37,659 votes.
Two independent candidates, Mohamed Nabi Bux Mohd Nabi Abd Sathar and Abu Backer Sidek Mohd Zan, obtained 799 and 225 votes respectively.
Huan, Mohamed Nabi Bux and Abu Backer Sidek lost their RM10,000 deposit after failing to secure one-eighth or 12.5% of the total votes.
The Star
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