KUALA LUMPUR – Lembah Pantai incumbent Fahmi Fadzil has lashed out at the Election Commission (EC) for the farcical organising of the polling centre at the Kerinchi PPR flats.
Long queues of people lining up for hours in a cramped area got the usually calm and good-natured Pakatan Harapan (PH) candidate hot under the collar.
“Why did they do it here? They don’t even have proper lanes!” Fahmi told the press.
“Police are coming to me asking if I have chairs. I can’t solve this problem. It’s the Election Commission.
“Where is the bloody EC?
“EC chairman, this is on you! If anyone collapses today, you bear the (sin),” said Fahmi labelling the organising of the polls in Lembah Pantai “ridiculous”.
“This is ridiculous, people are angry. Don’t you have any sense of responsibility?
“Come down to the ground and see for yourselves,” he said.
The EC has been under a lot of criticism since polls opened at 8am today, starting with its MySPRSemak website being down for hours.
In Kota Damansara, where Fahmi’s PH colleague Datuk R. Ramanan is standing against Barisan Nasional (BN) hotshot Khairy Jamaluddin, the EC has been accused of delay tactics to frustrate voters from casting their ballots with some of them waiting up to five hours.
These issues, coupled with having the elections in the middle of the rainy season where several polling centres in Sarawak were flooded have caused the integrity, competency and even impartiality of the EC to come into question.
The 15th general election is seeing record turnout where at 2pm it had reached 58%, which could spell trouble for incumbent BN where traditionally high voter turnout is always in favour of the opposition. – The Vibes, November 19, 2022
