EC held a press conference today at Pullman hotel to announce the dates for the coming Sarawak State Elections. Nomination is on Apr 6th while polling on 16th. The issues arising were: EC claim that it has not look into the issue of giving postal votes to Sarawakians living in West Malaysia-though they has taken the trouble to give the wife of police the discretionary right to cast postal votes. The question is: why?
The EC also pushed away its responsibility on vote buying-pushed it to the MACC, on abuses of civil servants in party campaign-claiming that the issue need to be decided by court. The EC also tried to play for time on the issue of appointing an observer group led by a party leader, by promising to question the observer group on Mar 29th.Earlier it has failed to explain why it only want to accredit 1 group-thus exposing itself to problems when the only group cause problems.