SEREMBAN: Pakatan Harapan’s Jempol candidate Kamarulzaman Kamdias, who lost the seat by 1,631 votes, will be filing an election petition against the Election Commission (EC).
“Based on information collected from Form 14, I have won the seat. But the results announced by the EC, I lost by a majority-vote of more than 1,600,” he told a press conference here on Thursday.
“We have all the proof, based on the forms we got from 140 streams from all the polling stations. The EC has to answer, where do these extra votes come from?” he said.
Before the EC announced the results, Kamarulzaman said it should also have been verified and signed off by his counting agent.
“But the EC made the announcement in a hurry without notifying my agent,” he alleged.
Kamarulzaman, however, declined to reveal the majority he garnered based on the information he collected.
He also claimed that he was barred from entering the counting centre.
“My car was stopped at the gate. Only my agent could enter,” he said.
In the three-cornered fight, Barisan Nasional's Datuk Salim Sharif won the Jempol parliamentary seat with 26,819 votes.
Kamarulzaman and PAS' Mustaffa Daharun garnered 25,188 and 5,267 votes, respectively.
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