Johor bahru, June 13 – Two Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) candidates today filed last minute election petitions seeking to declare the 13th General Election results for the Pasir Gudang and Tebrau parliamentary seats as null and void.
Dr Ahmad Faidhi Saidi and Choong Shiau Yoon filed their petition about 9.30 am at the High Court here.
Barisan Nasional (BN) candidates Normala Abdul Samad and Khoo Soo Seang won the Pasir Gudang and Tebrau seats respectively.
In Ipoh, PKR’s K.Vasantha Kumar, 40, filed a petition against the Tapah parliamentary seat result at the High Court.
Datuk M.Saravanan of BN won the seat defeating Vasantha Kumar, Shaharuzzaman Bistamam (Berjasa) and independent Ridzuan Bani by a majority of 7,927 votes.
Earlier, Misbahul Munir Masduki, Mohd Akmal Kamarudin and Jamil Dzulkarnain from PAS filed their petitions for the Rungkup, Selama and Manong state seats in the same court.
Perak PAS commissioner Abu Bakar Hussain said that brought the total petitions by the party to six, including Manjoi, Lubok Merbau and Pasir Panjang which were filed yesterday.
The three PAS candidates were defeated by BN’s Datuk Shahrul Zaman Yahya, Datuk Mohamad Daud Mohd Yusoff and Mohamad Kamil Shafie respectively.
-BERNAMA
