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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

UMNO breaching the Election Rules: Any action?

Recently, there's this article about UMNO having spent more than RM200 million in the 2004 election. Let's see what the Law has to say about this:

19.(1) Subject to such exception as may be allowed in pursuance of this Act, no sum shall bepaid and no expense shall be incurred by a candidate at an election or by his election agent, afterthe date of publication of the notice of the election in the Gazette, during or after an election, onaccount of or in respect of the conduct or management of such election, in excess of-
(a) two hundred thousand ringgit in the case of an election to the Dewan Rakyat;
(b) one hundred thousand ringgit in the case of an election to a Legislative Assembly;

Read this:

"With 219 parliamentary seats and 505 state seats contested in the 2004 general elections, this means that a party like BN that contested all seats cannot spend more than RM94.3 million or else BN's victories are illegal," said Lim, who is also DAP secretary-general.

And read this also:

Punishment and incapacities for corrupt practice

11. (1) Every personwho-

(f) being a candidate or election agent knowingly makes the declaration as to election expensesrequired by section 23 falsely,

shall be guilty of a corrupt practice, and shall, on conviction by a Sessions Court, be liable, in thecase referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b), to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two yearsand to a fine of not less than one thousand ringgit and not more than five thousand ringgit, and,in any other case, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year and to a fine not exceedingtwo thousand ringgit. Offences under paragraphs (a) and (b) shall be seizable offences within themeaning of the Criminal Procedure Code.

(2) Every person who is convicted of a corrupt practice shall, subject to any specific provision tothe contrary in any written law relating to any election, by conviction become incapable of beingregistered or listed as an elector or of voting at any election or of being elected at any election,and if at that date he has been elected at any election, his seat shall be vacated from the date of such conviction:
Provided that such disability shall cease on the expiry of five years from such conviction.


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Ok, guys, assuming most of the UMNO-BN mp's are now disqualified in 2004. Remember, they should be disqualified for 2008 election also (see the 5 years period of disqualification). Therefore, most of them should not be contesting in the 2008 election.

Or the other way, now some have been proven guilty, they can be charged, and once charged, and convicted, they will be disqualified from being MP's/ State Assemblymen.

PR should file petition in court over this, and we should have a PR government in place.

The funny part was UMNO's answer regarding this:

Umno treasurer Abdul Azim Mohd Zabidi has since filed an application to set aside the judgment. In a six-page affidavit, Abdul Azim argued Elegant Advisory had sued the wrong body as it was BN, the coalition as a whole, and not Umno which contested in the general election.

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