April 22, 2012
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Election Commission's Absurd Aziz is Malaysia's Baghdad Bob
COMMENT by Terence Netto: The timing could not have been worse.Just when a Election Commission chairperson pronounced a electoral register a cleanest in a world, video footage surfaces as proof of a explain a rolls have been sullied.
In his consistent avowals which a electoral register is as purify as a hound's tooth in a face of memorable justification of a contamination, EC Chief Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof is getting to resemble 'Baghdad Bob'.
Followers of CNN's coverage of a 2003 American advance of Iraq will remember 'Baghdad Bob', a Iraqi Information Minister who cut a pitiable figure in his daily press briefings which insisted a American advance upon his country's capital was a angel tale.
If a performances of Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, dubbed 'Baghdad Bob' by a press, were something out of absurdist theatre, what to have of Abdul Aziz's insistence a past year, as sundry signs emerged to a contrary, which a electoral rolls for a 13th ubiquitous election in Malaysia have been above board?
'Absurd Aziz' may not be as phonetically pleasing a moniker as 'Baghdad Bob' though a EC chair's chutzpah would justify a abuse if he, after observation a latest video of attempted gerrymandering of a rolls in Malacca, continues to say which a EC is an just actress in a play of Malaysia's 13th ubiquitous election.
Over a past year, Abdul Aziz a! s well a s his EC cohort have retailed, with steadily diminishing
credence, one explanation after another to deflect doubts sowed by polls remodel vigour group BERSIH upon a authenticity of a electoral rolls.
Thus far, a evidentiary record purporting to show irregularities in a rolls has not had a "smoking gun" which could turn a clash in between BERSIH explain as well as EC counter-explanation decisively in foster of a former.
This miss seems right away to have been furnished by a latest video which purports to show UMNO politicians, Election Commission as well as National Registration Department officials in flagrante delicto. This must give a EC arch pause.
Neutral cover blown to shreds
Certainly, it should force him to rethink his settled mount which if Selangor does not dissolve a legal physique concurrently with a sovereign parliament's dissolution, a same rolls which will be used in a polls for parliamentary seats in a state would be in use in a delayed election to a state assembly.
If a video which has surfaced about untrustworthy goings-on in a credentials of a rolls in Malacca withstands a doubts which will fundamentally be cast upon a authenticity, further obduracy upon Abdul Aziz's partial would justify a BERSIH mount which a male has to go before a ubiquitous election can be held.
Aziz's forthrightness was in doubt in a lead-up to a Bersih-organised demonstration of final Jul when a EC as well as a police held a briefing for religious member as well as alternative NGOs which was organised by Minister in a Prime Minister's Department, Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon.
Under a barrage of questions from civil society membe! r presen t, Aziz drew slam for being some-more solicitous about a inquiries of Koh than he was of a queries of a NGO leaders.
The assembly was convened to dispel a latter's qualms about a EC's forthrightness though a chairman's carriage did not inspire confidence.
In a telling of some of his inquisitors which day, Aziz was less a neutral party attempting to clear doubts about a integrity of a process a physique he heads supervises than an adjunct of a government which Koh represented.
His presumably neutral cover would be blown to patches if after a coming of a video seemingly depicting an try during electoral fraud in Malacca involving domestic flunkeys, EC officials as well as civil servants, he again insists upon a EC's just bona fides.
In a circumstances, it's not most use to disagree which a EC arch should be above suspicion, similar to Caesar's wife, though Abdul Aziz would flirt with a preposterous if after observation a video he continues to say which a rolls have been a cleanest upon a planet.
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