KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has denied the Selangor state government’s legal challenge against the Election Commission (EC) over its redelineation exercise. High Court Justice Azizul Azmi Adnan ruled Thursday that the judicial review was “non-justiciable” as a redelineation exercise was exclusively the area of the legislature. Justice Azizul Azmi said the state government's claim that the electoral roll was flawed, as it did not have the addresses of 136,272 voters, did not hold water. It wanted the court to quash the EC’s notice and an order to direct it to publish a fresh notice on the proposed exercise. The challenge was based on claims that the EC acted unconstitutionally in the redelineation exercise by using a defective electoral roll.

Source: The Star December 07, 2017 05:51 UTC