Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali said he will issue a letter to the Election Commission (EC) seeking a meeting on constituency redelineation in the state within 48 hours.

Azmin said the meeting is to get more details on the redelineation proposal for the state.

The PKR deputy president said this was decided by the Selangor executive council in its meeting today.

"What was the methodology, the system and the basis for the EC's proposal, which our lawyers say has breached the Federal Constitution on two fronts," Azmin told reporters.

Azmin said this when met after he chaired the Selangor executive council meeting at the state secretariat building in Shah Alam today.

The EC last week announced that it will carry out a review of the redelineation of electoral boundaries for parliamentary and state seats in the peninsula and Sabah beginning Sept 15.

EC secretary Abdul Ghani Salleh said the review would be conducted based on the provisions of Clause (2) Article 113 of the Federal Constitution and amendments to Clause (2) Article 14 of the Sabah state constitution, which was gazetted on Aug 18.

Under the redelineation, the EC had suggested the addition of a new seat - Damansara - which includes the seat of Petaling Jaya Utara with more than 150,000 voters.

Legal action if no meeting

Meanwhile, should the meeting between the state government and the EC fails to take place, Azmin said that they would not hesitate to take legal action against the EC.

“If the meeting fails to be held within 48 hours, I, together with the state government will ask the EC to come out with a written statement over the matter.

“If it still fails, we will proceed with legal action,” he stressed.

The menteri besar also reiterated that Selangor will not witness a snap election in the state.

“The state executive council took into account the need for us to focus on taking legal action and did not agree with holding snap polls in the state,” he said.

Azmin had earlier ruled out the need for a snap election, suggesting that to do so would be a betrayal of the mandate given by voters in the previous election.

DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang had called for a snap election to be held in the state in view of the EC’s planned redelineation exercise.

However, PKR sources, according to a news report, pointed to seat negotiations as the reason behind their deputy president not wanting to hold a snap election.

Following the break-up of Pakatan Rakyat, opposition parties, except for PAS, have regrouped as Pakatan Harapan.