Selangor menteri besar Azmin Ali is considering a legal challenge against the Election Commission's move to table the preliminary redelineation report in Parliament yesterday, which excluded the state. 

Azmin said it was improper for the EC to table the report when there is an on-going court proceeding.

"I was informed yesterday that the EC submitted a notice of a review to the prime minister (Najib Abdul Razak), and to the Parliament, without Selangor."

"If it is true, we will challenge that decision as the law does not allow the review to be submitted to the PM without having the entire unit of Peninsular Malaysia. This is unconstitutional and we will certainly consider filing a legal challenge," he told reporters.

He charged at the EC for having excluded Selangor in the exercise, and said the state would appeal and object if the EC continued to submit it (the review) without Selangor. 

It was reported that the EC had submitted the updated redelineation proposal for Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah, following the conclusion of a four-month local inquiry to hear objections to its initial plan. 

However, the updated redelineation proposal excluded Selangor as the state had obtained a stay against EC's local inquiry, in the Kuala Lumpur High Court, pending a judicial review it filed against the redelineation exercise. 

In its judicial review, Selangor is seeking a declaration that the proposed redelineation, from a 2016 study by the EC, was unconstitutional, inconsistent with Clauses 2(c) and 2(d) of Article 1132(2) of the Thirteenth Schedule of the Federal Constitution, and thus, null and void. 

The state is also seeking a declaration that the EC's failure to use the latest electoral roll in the redelineation was unconstitutional, not in accordance with Section 3 of the Thirteenth Schedule of the Federal Constitution, and thus, null and void.