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 explanation of a claim a rolls are sullied.
In his constant avowals which a electoral register is as clean as a hound's tooth in a face of recurrent 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 allege of Iraq will remember 'Baghdad Bob', a Iraqi Information Minister who cut a pathetic figure in his every day press briefings which insisted a American allege 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 make of Abdul Aziz's insistence a past year, as sundry signs emerged to a contrary, which a electoral rolls for a 13th ubiquitous choosing in Malaysia are above board?
'Absurd Aziz' might not be as phonetically pleasing a moniker as 'Baghdad Bob' but a EC chair's chutzpah would clear a epithet if he, after viewing 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 as well as his EC cohort have retailed, with steadily diminishing
credence, one explanation after another to inhibit doubts sowed by polls reform vigour group BERSIH upon a flawlessness of a electoral rolls.
Thus far, a evidentiary jot down purporting to uncover irregularities in a rolls has not had a "smoking gun" which could spin a clash between BERSIH claim as well as EC counter-explanation decisively in favour of a former.
This lack seems right away to have been furnished by a ultimate video which purports to uncover 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 stand which if Selangor does not disintegrate 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 employed in a behind choosing to a state assembly.
If a video which has surfaced about shady goings-on in a preparation of a rolls in Malacca withstands a doubts which will inevitably be cast upon a authenticity, further obduracy upon Abdul Aziz's part would clear a BERSIH stand which a male has to go before a ubiquitous choosing can be held.
Aziz's forthrightness was in doubt in a lead-up to a Bersih-organised proof of final July when a EC as well as a military held a briefing for religious representatives as well as other NGOs which was organised by Minister in a Prime Minister's Department, Tan Sri Koh T! su Koon.
Under a fusillade of questions from polite society representatives present, Aziz drew flak for being some-more concerned about a inquiries of Koh than he was of a queries of a NGO leaders.
The assembly was convened to diffuse a latter's qualms about a EC's forthrightness but a chairman's deportment did not inspire confidence.
In a revelation 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 accessory of a government which Koh represented.
His supposedly neutral cover would be blown to patches if after a appearance of a video seemingly depicting an attempt at electoral fraud in Malacca involving domestic flunkeys, EC officials as well as polite servants, he again insists upon a EC's just bona fides.
In a circumstances, it's not much use to disagree which a EC arch should be above suspicion, like Caesar's wife, but Abdul Aziz would coquette with a preposterous if after viewing a video he continues to say which our rolls are a cleanest upon a planet.
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