KUALA LANGAT – Election petitions to annul the results of four seats won by Perikatan Nasional (PN) in the Selangor state election last month will be filed soon, said Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari.
“They (petitions) are being fine-tuned; we discussed them first on behalf of PKR, and we have checked all matters. Insya-Allah, they will be filed soon.
“We are awaiting the completion of the gazette decision process,” he told reporters after officiating the Selangor-level 2023 Fit Malaysia programme here today.
Earlier, the Election Commission announced that the results and voting statements following the official tallying of the state election votes in six states were gazetted on August 29.
Prior to this, Pakatan Harapan (PH) and Barisan Nasional (BN) were considering filing election petitions to annul the results of the Sg Kandis, Taman Medan, Gombak Setia, and Dengkil state seats, where the victory margins were low.
The results for the four seats saw PH-BN lose by 407 votes in Dengkil, Sg Kandis (167), Gombak Setia (58), and Taman Medan (30).
Amirudin, who is also the Selangor PH chairman, said that the matter was discussed at a meeting of the political bureau and the state leadership council with a team of lawyers who would conduct additional research on the cases involving the four seats.
Six states – Kedah, Penang, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Terengganu, and Kelantan – went to the polls on August 12.
In other developments, Amirudin said the cost of cleaning up an illegal dumpsite in Kapar, Klang, is the responsibility of the landowner as a private property owner.
“But in many of our experiences, the state government will eventually intervene, and of course, we will share the cost with the landlord, and if there is none, we will do the expropriation process, and so on, because the land use is not in accordance with what has been set in the land use conditions,” he said.
Bernama previously reported that the amount of rubbish at the site was estimated to be between 30,000 and 50,000 metric tonnes, with the cost of cleaning possibly involving millions of ringgit. – September 2, 2023