A week has passed since protesters chained and padlocked the gates of the Election Commission headquarters in Putrajaya.

This was done after the EC refused to accept a memorandum to protest the commission's decision to stop providing copies of the draft electoral roll to political parties.

The commission's chief Mohd Hashim Abdullah's silence on the matter has now drawn flak.

"The EC chairperson's silence to this day shows that the EC is nothing more than a yes-man organisation pushed around by the government," said Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) Youth election director Muhammad Taquiddin Cheman.

"The question is, why is the EC trying to limit access to information? Doesn't the EC want a clean election?" he asked in a statement.

Muhammad Taquiddin said Amanah Youth would lodge police reports nationwide on this matter, starting tomorrow.

On May 23, protesters from Pakatan Harapan parties' youth and women's wings padlocked the gates of the EC headquarters when no representative from the commission showed up to meet them.

The protesters were urging the EC to lift the decision to no longer provide draft electoral rolls.

The EC had said the law only states that it needs to display the draft rolls at gazetted public areas.

The commission had before this provided the draft rolls in soft copy format to political parties.

This allowed parties to better analyse constituencies and check for possible discrepancies in new registrations.