Lim berkata, Aziz harus meletak jawatan sebagai pengerusi SPR sekiranya gagal berbuat demikian, katanya.
Lim merujuk kepada dakwaan Aziz bahawa Kementerian Kesihatan mengeluarkan laporan keselamatan yang memberi amaran mengenai risiko kesihatan yang timbul daripada kandungan lebih satu peratus argentum nitrat dalam dakwat kekal.
Kandungan sebatian itu membolehkan dakwat tersebut kekal apabila digunakan ke atas satu permukaan.
Ketua menteri Pulau Pinang tersebut berkata SPR secara tidak langsung menyalahkan Kementerian Kesiahatan kerana menyebabkan kerugian RM6 juta daripada penggunaan dakwat berkenaan, yang dapat ditanggalkan dengan mudah.
"Jika Kementerian Kesihatan tidak boleh percayakan SPR, bagaimana orang mahu percaya bahawa SPR bersih, adil dan bebas semasa mengendalikan pilihan raya.-malaysiakini
Prof. Mohamad Agus: SPR FAILED!...
Saya tidak sependapat dengan kenyataan Timbalan Pengerusi SPR yang menyatakan SPR telah menjalankan kerja dengan baik dalam mengurus pilihan raya umum ke-13 yang lalu. Pada saya SPR gagal.
Jika SPR berjaya, maka untuk apa PM mengumumkan penubuhan satu jawatankuasa khas terdiri dari Ahli Parlimen daripada semua parti politik bagi mengawal selia kredibiliti dan integriti SPR pada 1 Jun 2013.
Saya yakin jika SPR berjaya menjalankan tugasnya dengan baik, PM tidak akan membuat pengumuman sedemikian. Saya yakin jika SPR berjaya menjalankan tugasnya dengan baik tidak akan berlaku bantahan dan perhimpunan 505 seperti yang berlaku sekarang ini.
Bagi saya, jika sekadar menyediakan dakwat kekal pun gagal dilaksanakan dengan baik, jika sekadar menyediakan daftar pemilih yang bersih gagal dilaksanakan dengan baik, maka saya kira sudah sampai masanya Pengerusi dan Timbalan Pengerusi SPR meletakkan jawatan.
Cumanya, yang saya tidak faham dengan pengumuman PM ini ialah kenapa perlu ditubuhkan jawatankuasa untuk memantau SPR?
Saya kira tidak perlu jawatankuasa untuk memantau SPR kerana SPR adalah sebuah badan bebas. Yang kita perlu sekarang ialah anggota SPR yang boleh bertindak cekap untuk mengurus pilihan raya yang adil dan bebas. Itu yang kita belum ada!
Begitupun, sekiranya kerajaan ingin menubuhkan jawatankuasa bagi mereformasikan SPR dan sistem pilihan raya kita, maka hal berikut perlu diberikan perhatian:
(i) kerajaan perlulah menubuhkan sebuah panel yang terdiri dari wakil parti mengikut kuota undi popular yang diterima oleh parti, dan setiap parti hendaklah berhak menamakan wakil masing-masing, bukannya ditentukan oleh kerajaan;
(ii) jawatankuasa ini juga perlulah diberi rangka kerja untuk mengkaji beberapa pindaan kepada Akta Kesalahan Pilihan Raya 1954, Akta Pilihan Raya 1958, Peraturan-peraturan (Penjalanan Pilihan Raya) Pilihan Raya, 1981, Peraturan-peraturan (Pendaftaran Pemilih) Pilihan Raya, 2002 dan Peraturan-peraturan (Mengundi Melalui Pos) Pilihan Raya, 2003
Di akhir analisisnya, saya merasakan kerajaan dan PR perlu mengambil tindakan berikut:
(i) mendesak Pengerusi dan Timbalan Pengerusi SPR supaya meletakkan jawatan,
(ii) PR menghentikan perhimpunan 505 bagi memberi peluang kepada proses petisyen pilihan raya diadili di mahkamah undang-undang.
Dengan pendekatan ini, semoganya tidak ada lagi perhimpunan 505 diadakan dan kerajaan boleh terus menumpukan masa untuk merancang pembangunan negara. Sesungguhnya, rakyat dahagakan kehidupan yang selesa.- Mohamad Agus Yusoff
'Dakwat kekal' - SPR kena tipu oleh pembekal, kata Dr Haron Din...
Timbalan Mursyidul Am PAS Tuan Guru Datuk Dr Haron Din mendakwa, rakyat khususnya pengundi pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 (PRU13) lalu telah ditipu berhubung penggunaan dakwat 'kekal'.
Katanya, tidak kira pihak mana yang sebenarnya bertanggungjawab dengan dakwat yang tidak kekal itu, namun hakikatnya seluruh pengundi telah ditipu oleh istilah 'dakwat kekal' itu.
“Polis mempunyai kapasiti menyiasat siapa yang menipu siapa dalam kes tersebut. Pembekal membekalkan dakwat tidak kekal sedangkan dinamakan sebagai dakwat kekal.
Ertinya pembekal menipu SPR. Kalau SPR memesan dakwat tidak kekal tetapi menamakan dakwat kekal, maka SPR menipu kerajaan dan pengundi.
“Kalau kerajaan berpakat dengan SPR memesan dakwat yang tidak kekal tetapi mendakwa sebagai dakwat kekal, maka SPR bersekongkol dengan kerajaan menipu rakyat,” ujarnya.
Pada hari pengundian 5 Mei lalu, beliau yang merupakan calon PAS bagi kawasan Parlimen Arau, adalah antara individu yang membuat laporan polis berhubung dakwat yang dicalit ditanggannya boleh tanggal sejurus selepas membuang undi.
Mengulas lanjut beliau berkata, banyak lagi kepincangan yang berlaku sepanjang proses pilihan raya lalu seperti didedahkan oleh banyak pihak.
Sehubungan itu katanya, beliau menyokong sebarang perhimpunan aman membantah penipuan pilihan raya yang dianjurkan di negara ini selagi tidak mengundang kepada malapetaka.
“Lagi pun, Islam dan perlembagaan negara membenarkan perhimpunan secara aman. Seperti juga kita berhimpun pada hari Jumaat. Itu juga dinamakan sebagai demonstrasi tetapi diadakan secara aman. Sama juga perhimpunan besar di Makkah. Perhimpunan aman saya sokong,” jelas beliau.-harakahdaily
EC chief must show indelible ink letter or 'resign'...
Election
Commission (EC) chairperson Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof must produce the
letter that the Health Ministry has sent him, on the danger of too much
silver nitrate in indelible ink.
Failure to do so, said DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng (left), should be followed with Aziz’s resignation as EC chief.
Lim was referring to Aziz’s repeated claims that the Health Ministry had issued a safety report that warned of potential health risks from more than one percent silver nitrate concentration in indelible ink, despite this being denied.
Silver nitrate is what makes indelible ink last, once it is used on a surface.
Lim, who is Penang chief minister, said the EC is “indirectly blaming” the ministry for causing it to waste RM6 million on purchasing the indelible ink, which was easily washed off.
“If the Health Ministry cannot even trust the EC, how can the people trust the EC to be clean, fair and free in conducting elections?” Lim asked in a statement today.
“The fiasco of the indelible ink that could be easily washed off has destroyed what little integrity EC has left, plunging its credibility to its lowest depth in history.
“Never before has the EC adopted BN’s political attacks against the opposition, and has even threatened to sue Pakatan (Rakyat) leaders.”
'Health Ministry consulted'
Aziz had said in an interview with the Singapore Straits Times last month that the EC received a letter from the Malaysian Health Ministry, warning of potential kidney damage and cancer risks associated with a more than one percent content of silver nitrate content in indelible ink.
However, Aziz's claim was denied by current Health Minister Dr S Subramaniam (left), who said the ministry did not issue any safety report on the ink, and that the EC had not requested for any such report.
Yet, in a text-message to Malaysiakini last Saturday, Aziz had reiterated his initial claim.
"Yes, we did (send the ink to the ministry for safety evaluation) and we have the reply," he texted.
The use of the indelible ink during the May 5 general election drew flak from voters after several reports were lodged on the ease with which the ink could be removed from their index fingers.
The EC had initially claimed the ink could last up to at least seven days.-mal;aysiakini
Failure to do so, said DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng (left), should be followed with Aziz’s resignation as EC chief.
Lim was referring to Aziz’s repeated claims that the Health Ministry had issued a safety report that warned of potential health risks from more than one percent silver nitrate concentration in indelible ink, despite this being denied.
Silver nitrate is what makes indelible ink last, once it is used on a surface.
Lim, who is Penang chief minister, said the EC is “indirectly blaming” the ministry for causing it to waste RM6 million on purchasing the indelible ink, which was easily washed off.
“If the Health Ministry cannot even trust the EC, how can the people trust the EC to be clean, fair and free in conducting elections?” Lim asked in a statement today.
“The fiasco of the indelible ink that could be easily washed off has destroyed what little integrity EC has left, plunging its credibility to its lowest depth in history.
“Never before has the EC adopted BN’s political attacks against the opposition, and has even threatened to sue Pakatan (Rakyat) leaders.”
'Health Ministry consulted'
Aziz had said in an interview with the Singapore Straits Times last month that the EC received a letter from the Malaysian Health Ministry, warning of potential kidney damage and cancer risks associated with a more than one percent content of silver nitrate content in indelible ink.
However, Aziz's claim was denied by current Health Minister Dr S Subramaniam (left), who said the ministry did not issue any safety report on the ink, and that the EC had not requested for any such report.
Yet, in a text-message to Malaysiakini last Saturday, Aziz had reiterated his initial claim.
"Yes, we did (send the ink to the ministry for safety evaluation) and we have the reply," he texted.
The use of the indelible ink during the May 5 general election drew flak from voters after several reports were lodged on the ease with which the ink could be removed from their index fingers.
The EC had initially claimed the ink could last up to at least seven days.-mal;aysiakini
Health minister: No, EC did not consult us on 'indelible' ink
The Health minister has refuted a claim by Election Commission chief Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof and UMNO information chief Ahmad Maslan that the 'indelible' ink used on voters in the recent polls had its silver nitrate content lowered for health reason.The low silver nitrate in the ink had been cited as reason why the ink could disappear from voters' fingers almost immediately after being applied.
Asked whether there was indeed a medical reason for loweing silver nitrate, Health minister Dr S Subramaniam said: “I’m not sure, you must ask the Election Commission that question. If you ask whether they have asked us for any report on that, I don’t think so."
Subramaniam also said there had be no consultation with his ministry for a report on the use of the indelible ink from the medical perspective.
“If they had asked us and we had given a report, it is very different, but I don't think so...”
Aziz had claimed that the EC obtained a letter from the Health ministry warning against excessive silver nitrate in the indelible ink which could lead pose risks to kidney as well as cancer.
While Maslan had claimed it was a last minute decision to lower the level of silver nitrate for 'health reasons'.
“(This is) the first time I am hearing of this,” said Subramaniam when pointed out the claims by Aziz and Maslan.-harakahdaily
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