EC’s electoral boundary redrawing not subject to legal challenge, says Court of Appeal
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal said courts cannot interfere in the duties and functions of the Election Commission (EC) in redrawing electoral boundaries. Justice Kamardin Hashim said the election commissioners and their subordinate officers were entrusted under the Federal Constitution to complete the delineation exercise within a two year period. Kamardin said the action of two appellants to challenge the delineation process was, therefore, premature as the EC only made suggestions to parliament. “In our view, the appellants brought their fight to the wrong ring,” he said in the judgment which dismissed the appeal of Ipoh Barat MP M Kulasegaran and Ipoh Timor MP Thomas Su Keong Siong. It will now be interesting to see the outcome of a similar challenge mounted by the Selangor government against the EC when hearing of that case resumes on Oct 13. On Aug 14, the three-man bench, which had been chaired by Mohd Zawawi Hashim, delivered an oral ruling that the court was n