KUALA LUMPUR: Election promises would not be seen as acts of bribery if the people who made them did so in their official capacity as Government representatives.
Citing a case over an allegation made by a former Finance Minister in the 1981 Pengkalan Kota by-election, law expert Azhar Azizan Harun said Saturday that a promise made would not be seen as a bribe if it was made to a whole community.
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