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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 — The Election Commission (EC) said it is not the proper authority to determine the announcement of projects close to a poll constitutes an offence. EC chairman Azhar Azizan Harun said any opinion it made on this would be inadmissible in court. “It must be stressed that the...

Tuesday, 22 Oct 2019 04:02 PM MYTElection Commission chairman Azhar Azizan Harun said the EC is not the proper authority to determine the announcement of projects close to a poll constitutes an offence. — Bernama pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 — The Election Commission said it is not the proper authority to determine the announcement of projects close to a poll constitutes an offence.“It must be stressed that the EC is not a proper authority to determine whether such acts contravene election laws or otherwise. “Whatever the EC says on this issue will merely be an opinion that is inadmissible as evidence should the matter be brought to the courts.”Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman commented last week about a RM4 million allocation for the Tanjung Piai federal constituency that will be voting in a by-election on November 16.

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Maybe it should be clarified that it only becomes vote buying when it is BN. Got the balls to say it, Art?

Dahlah tu. Same old. Same old. electionbribery

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Its true what the Rakyat is saying now. B4 the 14th GE, the then opposition went to the ground harping that they could do a better job than BN in running the country. But, alas, after nearly 2 years, all of it is just a big pile of hogwash!

It should be wrong cos it’s a form of bribery

Bodoh punya EC

artharun now became confuse person sprgovmy

Now only EC chief knows how election campaign works. And of course any opposition parties will have a field time protesting.

Wtf does that mean? Why don't he just say I don't fuxking know!

There ought to be a 'clear cut' legislation on funding during election period. Seems more funding received on election then during normal times.

Make it law that giving out goodies and tokens 2 months before election as an offence.

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