Former Bersih treasurer Thomas Fann and three others have filed an application for judicial review at the Johor Baru High Court against the Election Commission over the redelineation exercise.

They are claiming that the exercise was flawed, unfair and violated the principles set out under Section 2 of the 13th Schedule of the Federal Constitution.

The application was filed online two days ago by lawyer Jimmy Puah from the law firm SK Song.

Fann is a voter in the Pulai parliamentary and Pengkalan Rinting state constituencies. The other applicants are Ng Siam Luang, Ang Yien Meei and Choo Mun Ying, all from the Gelang Patah parliamentary and Skudai state seats.

They named the EC, its chairperson Mohd Hashim Abdullah and secretary Abdul Ghani Salleh as the respondents in the application.

They filed the judicial challenge after their objections in the first display of the delimitation process were not taken into consideration when the second public display was made on March 8.

The applicants are seeking a declaration that the proposed recommendation for federal and state seats for Johor by the EC on March 8 is unconstitutional.

The four are also asking for a certiorari order to quash the proposed recommendation, a mandamus to compel the EC to publish new recommendations in line with the Federal Constitution, and a stay of all proceedings for the proposed recommendations.

They claimed that EC has violated the principles outlined under Section 2(c) of the 13th Schedule, which states that the number of voters within each constituency in a state ought to be approximately equal...