Great Job, Datuk Ambiga!

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The Co-Chairman of the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections (Bersih) Datuk Ambiga Srenevasan has indeed done a great job in providing a very wide avenue for our people to realise their rights as voters in general elections. There is no doubt on her tremendous contributions.

And it is a grave disappointment to see that, until today, the Elections Commission (EC) is still belittling Datuk Ambiga for all her efforts and contributions to the nation and our people. The EC is very unease with Bersih's exposure on many misdeeds within the EC and the electoral rolls itself.

We would like to question the EC officials, are you for free and fair elections? If you are saying that the EC is completely independent and free from any political influence, why are you so afraid of calls for more reforms in the electoral rolls? Why are the EC officials so afraid to meet up with the Bersih steering committee in order to resolve electoral issues?

If the EC really sincere in implementing its electoral reforms? If they are insisting that they are doing all they can to improve things within its organization, then why are they still dragging and delaying the effort? Who are they waiting for. Even both the EC chairman and deputy chairman are too arrogant to give clearer answers and explanations to our people in order to justify what they have been trying to do all this while.

And both the EC chairman and deputy chairman has also yet to prove that they are not Umno members but instead gave confusing answers and response on their status in the BN's dominant party. In this case, both of them should not blame the people for voicing their frustration and distrust on the EC. They are the ones who are causing the public despair on the EC itself.

The 13th General Elections is coming around somewhere in the first quarter of next year and the EC has yet to come up with its concrete efforts and implementations in order to ensure the elections are being carried out in a free, fair and just manner. Where are the latest electoral rolls which was supposed to be made public as promised?

Our people, as voters and taxpayers have our every right to scrutinize the EC and its electoral rolls. We challenge the EC officials to come clean with their electoral records and documentations. If the EC is still so stubborn and refuse cooperation with the people, then we have no other choice but to go back to the streets again as a stern reminder to EC to reform soonest.

In fact, Datuk Ambiga should intensify Bersih's effort if the EC continue to refuse any electoral reforms or if the EC is simply delaying the reform implementations in favour of the BN government. Go ahead with the Jom Pantau PRU13 campaign in order to inform our people nationwide on the negative elements within the EC and its electoral lists.

Bravo, Datuk Ambiga!

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