Ambiga: Putrajaya stalling over electoral reform

Ambiga speaks during a public lecture during University of Melbourne, October 25, 2011. Picture by KC Boey

KUALA LUMPUR, October twenty-six Bersih 2.0 arch Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan indicted Putrajaya of dragging its feet upon electoral reform ahead of key inhabitant polls likely to be called by early subsequent year, Australia's inhabitant broadcaster reported today.

In an talk with a Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) earlier today, Ambiga highlighted a ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) government's warding off hold off upon a 13th ubiquitous election until after it implements reforms to a polling system.

This, she said, was notwithstanding a arrangement of a bi-partisan parliamentary name committee (PSC) by a Najib administration department following drawn out global criticism over its crackdown of Bersih 2.0's Jul 9 convene here.

"We've proposed a campaign called 'Clean Before 13'," she told a ABC in its Connect Middle East air wave programme this morning.

"What is crying out for reform is a cleaning up of a electoral roll. My own view is we can't go to a polls with a electoral roll in a state which it is," she said, adding there was no indicate implementing a reforms usually after Malaysians have voted.

The ABC reported Ambiga saying proposed reforms, such as a enrolment of three million unregistered electorate as well as involuntary voter registration during a age of 21, should usually take 6 months, though she additionally certified cleaning up a electoral roll may take longer.

The prominent counsel is now furloughed Australia to alert Malaysians there of their choosing by casting votes rights as well as convene await for a transformation demanding clean as well as satisfactory elections she heads.

The ruling BN government outlawed a 62-member civil society transformation in Jul this year claiming it was doing so upon inhabitant secu! rity gro unds, as well as has yet to lift a ban, ensuing in an ongoing justice tussle.

Ambiga's coming in Australia is expected to further vigour Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who will additionally be in a western Australia city of Perth upon October 28 to attend a 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).

Hundreds of Malaysian assimilated in solidarity with their countrymen behind home final Jul 9 as well as hold similar gatherings in seven Australian cities. Over 700 rallied in Melbourne as well as 400 in Sydney.

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