Selangor Election Commission (EC) has rejected all 583 complaints  of permanent residency (PR) holders having been registered as voters, claiming that they were found to be citizens.

Selangor EC chief Dzulkifli Ab Rahman told Sin Chew Daily that his officers had verified that all the 583 voters have become Malaysian citizens with the legal right to register as voters.

He further explained that these individuals had been given citizenship in January this year as cited by the National Registration Department (NRD).

Therefore a public inquiry, which allow both complainant and voter to be heard, will not be called for these 583 cases, the Chinese daily quoted Dzulkifli as saying.

He said that Selangor EC had received a total of 1,475 objections on the second quarter supplementary electoral roll draft, with 583 or 39.5 percent on PR holders allegedly being given voting rights.

The rest were ordinary complaints, such as discrepancies in the registered address, which would be resolved through a public inquiry held from Sept 6 to Oct 6, Dzulkifli added.

NONE The issue of a PR holder named Mismah registered as a potential voter in the latest supplementary electoral roll draft was first reported by Malaysiakini last Tuesday.

Pakatan Rakyat then claimed that it had detected 1,597 such cases nationwide, with 1,108 of them found in Selangor, a state ruled by Pakatan.

The coalition demanded that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak call an emergency parliamentary sitting this month to debate the issue.

The NRD clarified that Mismah had been awarded citizenship in January this year, but it did not explain why the NRD online database was only updated last Tuesday, after Malaysiakini published the news.

It also failed to respond to the 1,597 similar cases raised by Pakatan.

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