The Election Commission (EC) has been urged to reveal its new electoral boundary proposal map to the public, ahead of a plan to table it in Parliament at the end of this year.

 

Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar said EC owed this information to the public before the redelineation maps are gazetted.

 

At present, she said, EC has been showing the newly drawn maps to select groups.

 

"If you want to make an alternative map, then all Malaysians need to see it.

 

"I will continue to press the EC for this – for them to be more accountable to the people," she told a journalists after launching the Mandarin version of her book 'Our Future, Our Time'.

 

At present, Nurul Izzah said EC's practice of selecting who gets to see the map is just plain unfair.

 

"We (MPs) have not seen them because it is only shown to certain groups as meetings are conducted separately," she said.

 

She added that EC should make good use of public funds which it had received to upgrade its technology, by making the documents available digitally to the public.

 

The EC had previously said it is targeting to gazette the new boundaries before next year.

 

However, any changes to the boundaries which seeks an increase from the existing 222 seats will require a two-third majority support in Parliament.

 

Assuming BN parliamentarians are in full support of the seat increase, at least 14 Pakatan MPs will need to also agree.

The Opposition coalition has thus far not decided on whether to back seat increase.

Electoral reform groups Bersih 2.0 and Tindak Malaysia have insisted that Pakatan Rakyat should not agree to any increase in electoral constituencies.