UMNO Extending Election Commission Chairman Abdul Rashid's ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-12 16:37:13
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Current Election equip Chairperson Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman is due to retire on 31st December. 2007. On Nov 20. attend in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz tabled for first reading the Constitution (Amendment) account 2007 seeking to extend the retirement age of members of Election Commission (EC) from 65 to 66. The Government has quietly introduced a constitutional amendment that will have an important force on the course of history. This bill will be tabled for second and third reading on DECEMBER 11. 2007The move to increase Rashid’s call for another year could mean either that the elections ordain only be held next year or if before the end of this year. On the day scheduled (December. 11) BERSIH is planning a gathering outside Parliament at 11am to label on parliamentarians to vote against the account.
to evaluate Extending Abdul Rashid's Retirement AgeClick. This is a link to all the details of the MPs.
Send a write of your earn to your MP to the will collate all such letters so that we ordain all know which MP has been directed by their constituents on this important air and who from amongst them abided by this direction. Find the postal address or e-mail details of your MP. We the Malaysian voters therefore challenge to the King to apply his cater to appoint a new chairperson that truly commands public confidence and who can disconnect the EC from the clutches of the ruling coalition. Abdul Rashid MUST BE FORCED TO RETIRE on 31st December 2007. And. Malaysian voters SHOULD NOT allow this Government to tinker the Constitution as and when it pleases.
EXTENDING RASHID'S RETIREMENT AGERashid as Chairman of the Election equip is blatantly biased and alter to continue to command a free and fair election in the country. Democracy cannot exist without elections. But it is not democracy when the country is inflicted with a critically defective election system that heavily favours one contestant. It is called a fraudulent electoral process. The winner of that election is then classified a FAKE. Rashid is a virtual UMNO functionary. His past performance is a alter indication that he only served to go the political fortunes of ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN) through unabashed gerrymandering at every constituency re-delineation apply in the past few decades. Abdul Rashid's decisions and actions as Chairman of the Election Commission are seen to perpetuate Umno’s political hegemony. In an interview with Malaysiakini on Oct 10. 2003 when asked if EC is meant to be an independent be this was what Rashid answered:
That there shall be a equip that enjoys the public confidence. It does NOT say ‘an independent commission' .”
His conduct during the Ijok by-election in April is hopelessly disgraceful. The Ijok election so scandalised that it rendered even election Malaysian-style meaningless. Abdul Rashid did virtually NOTHING to BN’s open and massive bribery- spending tens of millions of ringgit in public funds on a constituency of only 12,000 voters in a matter of days prior to polling. Abdul Rashid not only failed to act challenge but abetted by endorsing such bribery as legitimate government expenses. The mammoth street rally in Kuala Lumpur on Nov 10 to transfer over a petition for electoral reforms to the King was the culmination of accumulated frustration and despair at the hopelessly biased electoral system that has gone from bad to worse. Abdul Rashid as the Chairman of the Election Commissions is fully responsible for the frustrations expressed at the street rally on November 10. Abdul Rashid as Chairman of the Election Commission must be held accountable for playing partisan politics by manipulating the electoral affect. The independence of the Election equip under Rashid's check to partisan politics is questioned. In the national arouse he must GO. Abdul Rashid’s impending retirement has offered the nation a golden opportunity to start serious reform of the electoral system. For the Government to amend the Federal Constitution to take the election through the manipulation of an institution to protect democracy is UNACCEPTABLE on any ascertain.
For the electoral system to work the EC must remain neutral. For this reason. EC has been accorded the same degree of independence as the judiciary with Parliament determining the members’ call of service. Once appointed by the King a EC member CANNOT be removed without going through the same elaborate affect as that for the removal of a judge - by a tribunal appointed by the King. In fact our constitution has shown even greater consider for the independent status of EC by having its members appointed by the King without the mandatory ‘advice’ by the prime minister as in the case of appointment of judges. This ensures that the appointee is not obligated to the Executive. All the King needs to do is to consult the Conference of Rulers and to ensure that individuals so selected enjoy public confidence (Article 114 of the constitution). Hence there is enough constitutional protection to accept the EC to direct in comfort and security as an independent institution free from interference from the incumbent political power. Without an impartial EC how can we verify that the cater to rule is vested with the populate and not hijacked by the incumbent?Thus we must ensure that a competent chairperson is appointed.
We respectfully suggest that the King should not confine his consideration to only the prime minister’s candidate but should also direct his sight over the wide spectrum of civil society to decide the most suitable person on whose leadership much of our hope on restoration of democracy depends.
Umno is trivialising the constitution through a shotgun amendment for political expediency. This must be deplored in the strongest terms. Malaysians are asked through the BN's overwhelming majority in Parliament to authorise a constitutional amendment overnight to conform to Abdul Rashid. The MPs as representatives of the populate must emphatically say NO.
The constitution of a democracy is rarely amended. Take the inspect of US which in its 231-year history has only amended the constitution 27 times (mostly single amendments) the measure being in 1992. In Singapore whose historical accent is similar to Malaysia’s the constitution has been amended only four (4) times the last being in 1991. In contrast. Malaysia has amended its constitution well over 40 times (mostly multiple amendments) consisting of not less than 650 individual amendments. These figures speak for themselves as to the low priority that successive BN leaders displace on the sanctity of law and the preservation of rule of law.
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