April 4, 2012
PSC Report upon Electoral Reform Incomplete as well as Inadequate, says Bar Council
The Bar Council has deemed a inform by a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) upon electoral remodel to be "incomplete" as well as "inadequate".
While acknowledging which a little of a twenty-two recommendations by a PSC have been in a right direction, Bar Council boss Lim Chee Wee pronounced a committee has unsuccessful to have comprehensive as well as endless recommendations for effective reform.
The Bar Council's initial concern, he said, is a PSC's disaster to understanding adequatelywith issues regarding to a electoral roll.
In a statement, Lim argued which a complement of adding brand new electorate to a electoral hurl contingency be free from fraud, as well as which a stream list needs to be cleansed of accumulated erring entries.
"The PSC done only a nominal curtsy in which citation by referring to a short audit of a electoral hurl by a supervision group MIMOS, which was conducted within very limited parameters. There is a compelling box for a some-more vigorous as well as endless auditing of a electoral roll. In India, for instance, a updating of its electoral hurl is a continuous process, with revisions conducted partly by way of house-to-house enumeration."
The Sabah conundrum
Lim pronounced problems with a electoral hurl were "rampant", as infamously highlighted in a High Court decision in Harris Mohd Salleh v Ismail garbage bin Majin, Returning Officer & Ors [2001] 3 MLJ 433.
I! n this d ecision, a judge had pronounced which instances of non-citizens as well as "phantom voters" in a electoral hurl disclosed during a hearing "may well be a tip of a iceberg".
"The exposure of fraudulent practices such as massive registration of phantom electorate is time consuming. However, it has to be done if you instruct to urge as well as safety a meaningful practice of democracy in Malaysia," reads a judgment
"As custodians of free as well as fair elections, a (Election Commission) is duty-bound to do it." The PSC had acknowledged this problem in its interim report as well as advised a sovereign supervision to settle a stately commission of inquiry to look in to a problems of citizenship-for-votes scam in Sabah.
Trampling over minority report?
Other issues raised by a Bar Council included PSC's strong disaster to address a EC's inertia in implementing reform. "(This is evident) by its rejection of six out of a 10 halt recommendations done by a PSC," pronounced Lim.
Lim also forked out which whilst PSC fixed a deadline of 3 months for at slightest 3 of a twenty-two recommendations, it unsuccessful to allot a timeline for 9 recommendations. "Further, it also unsuccessful to introduce policies or details with respect to a little of its recommendations, for example fair entrance to media," pronounced Lim.
On a Dewan Rakyat's refusal to accept a minority inform to a PSC's final report, Lim pronounced this was "highly regrettable" as well as against a parliamentary norms in other Commonwealth countries.
"The PSC comprised 9 members, four of whom were not from a governing coalition, including 3 from Pakatan Rakyat.
"A minority inform was rebuilt! to pull attention to points of disagreement as well as dissension," explained Lim.
PM contingency intervene
Lim pronounced which Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia's refusal to allow a minority inform to be appended had led to a PSC inform failing to reflect divergent views as well as an absence of consensus.
"For a Speaker to have disallowed it means which a PSC's final inform fails to reflect a farrago of views voiced within a PSC," pronounced Lim.
In perspective of these inadequacies, Lim pronounced a Bar Council urged Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to exercise political will as well as aspire to holistic solutions towards rectifying problems with a electoral hurl as well as immediately implementing all of PSC's recommendations prior to a subsequent general election.
He pronounced a PSC should have justly identified most appropriate practices from around a universe as well as implemented a most appropriate solutions in order to strengthen a approved process.
This would have met public expectations upon a supervision since it had since a impression, after a Jul 9 Bersih 2.0 convene last year, which it was a government's intention to transform a electoral complement as well as move about a real as well as permanent positive reform.
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