Klang MP Charles Santiago has lodged a police report against the Election Commission's (EC) redelineation complaining the vast differences in constituency sizes is detrimental to parliamentary democracy.

He cited the example of his constituency Klang, which sees an increase from 98,285 voters to 141,275 under the EC's redelineation proposal, an increase of 43.74 percent.

Meanwhile other constituencies such as Sabak Bernam, Sungai Besar and Tanjong Karang each had a number of voters slightly lower than 50,000, he pointed out

"The worth of one vote in areas such as Sabak Bernam, Sungai Besar and Tanjong Karang is three times more than in Klang.

"The Selangor EC director's decision to change the worth of a vote in Klang compared to the other parliamentary constituencies in Selangor will form a Parliament that has an uneven representation.

"This is a breach of the 'one person, one vote' principle, and it is a crime because it is detrimental to parliamentary democracy as stated in Section 124(b) of the Penal Code," Santiago said in his report, lodged at the Klang Selatan police district headquarters today.

He said he had tried to meet with Selangor EC director Ikmalruddin Ishak on Sept 27 to discuss the reasons and impact of the redelineation.

However, Ikmalruddin as well as the Selangor EC officers refused to meet with him and several other representatives from Klang, he said.

The MP therefore called on the police to investigate the Selangor EC director and the national EC director for activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy, over the redelineation exercise proposed on Sept 15.

"This is very important as it involves the human rights of all 98,285 voters of the Klang constituency," said Santiago.

New boundaries favour BN

The EC's redelineation proposal has been heavily criticised since it was made publicly available, with the opposition claiming it is heavily skewed in BN's favour.

Malaysiakini's independent analysis of the redelineation process confirms criticisms the proposed boundary changes largely favour BN.

Many polling districts that voted for non-BN parties in the last general election are affected.

The boundary changes either effectively eliminate a non-BN party's winning majority, or turns the constituency into a marginal seat for a non-BN party, the portal found.

The Selangor government has said it will take legal action to stop the redelineation, while PKR's Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli has submitted a bill to Parliament that will remove redelineation powers from the EC.