2007-12-31 17:11
PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA: Election Commission (EC) chairman Abdul Rashid Abdul
Rahman requests the prosecution right from government.
Abdul Rashid said if he had this kind of power, he would prosecute the
opposition parties which libel on EC.
He said EC faced a lot of untrue criticisms including the criticism of EC
only helped government and became the "dog" for government.
Therefore, Rashid said if EC owned prosecution power, the commission would
certainly bring the libelers to court.
"Since we do not have this kind of power now, we choose to be silent and
it
is impossible for us to strike back," he told Sin Chew Daily in an
exclusive
interview.
Abdul Rashid denounced opposition parties as "not educated" because they
made baseless criticism.
"Opposition parties want to have dialogues, but they have no sincerity.
They
asked the small potatoes to come. Moreover, they said EC supported the
campaign which was organized by BERSIH," he continued.
He said EC did not have to help government secretly because Barisan
Nasional
was strong enough and it did not need help from others.
He added if opposition parties claimed that the election procedure was not
fair, they should not participate in election.
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