Bersih has decided to sue TV3 for alleged defamation on the TV channel's claim that the electoral reform movement received RM3.2 billion from American financier George Soros.

"We have handed TV3 a letter of demand to ask it to retract and apologise, but it said it will not to do that, so we are proceeding with legal action," Bersih chief Maria Chin Abdullah told reporters in Kuala Lumpur today.