Huan, who only garnered 3,583 votes in the by-election won overwhelmingly by DAP, said he will file the petition after the election results are gazetted.
“I am not doing this because I lost but because DAP had flouted the election regulations,” he told a press conference at Air Itam.
He alleged DAP had campaigned within the polling stations on Sunday, brandishing pictures as proof.
“I have a lot of pictures and video of DAP leaders campaigning inside the polling stations.”
“They even openly set up a campaigning booth complete with DAP posters and Ramkarpal Singh Deo's posters not more than 10m from a polling station,” he alleged while holding up photos of the booth.
According to the Elections Offenses Act, all candidates amd parties are not allowed to set up booths closer than 50m from polling stations on polling day.
Huan was in a four cornered fight with DAP's Ramkarpal Singh Deo and two independent candidates Mohd Nabi Bux Mohd Sathar and Abu Backer Sidek Mohammad Zan.
DAP retained the parliamentary seat with a 37,659 vote majority.
“I am not doing this because I'm dissatisfied that I lost but DAP broke the regulations so the by-election was not conducted fairly,” Huan said.
The former Gerakan leader said he was satisfied with his results in the by-election.
“I got almost double the votes as compared to 1,801 votes I got when I contested for Batu Kawan parliamentary seat in last year's general election,” he said.
Huan was formerly the Batu Kawan MP and a Gerakan member.
Huan and the other two independent candidates lost their RM15,000 deposit each in the by-election.
All candidates are required to pay a deposit of RM15,000 to the Election Commission to contest for a parliamentary seat in an election.
They can only get back their deposit if they managed to garner one eighth or 12 per cent of the total votes cast.
The Bukit Gelugor seat was vacated after the late MP Karpal Singh was killed in a car crash last month.
- The Malay Mail -
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