KUALA LUMPUR: Oversight of the Election Commission’s redelineation exercise was the exclusive duty of Parliament, not the judiciary, ruled the High Court which dismissed the Selangor government’s judicial review. High Court Justice Azizul Azmi Adnan said any intervention by the judiciary would overstep the boundary of separation of powers. Justice Azizul said the state government’s claim that electoral roll was flawed as it did not have the addresses of 136,272 voters did not hold water. He disagreed with the state government’s claim that there was insufficient information about the exercise, which stopped voters from making meaningful repre­sentation against it. 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 21:00 UTC