'The Election Commission should not care about who forms the government. Do your job, EC, and leave politics to politicians.'

EC: Bersih is Pakatan stooge in bid for Putrajaya

Anonymous_4031: Isn't asking for a free and fair election a fair request? Isn't asking for one-man, one-vote a fair request? Isn't asking for indelible ink a fair request? Isn't asking for abolition of postal voting a fair request? Aren't the demands of Bersih universally accepted in all democratic countries?

So, why are these fair requests of Bersih unreasonable to the Election Commission (EC)? Is  the EC a stooge of the BN? Is the EC impartial? Why can't the EC accede to the demands of Bersih?

Why should  the EC be worried about Pakatan Rakyat taking over Putrajaya? EC deputy chairperson Wan Ahmad Wan Omar, are you a stooge of  the BN? The EC should be an impartial. Wan Ahmad should not be taking sides. What is wrong with Pakatan's goal of taking over Putrajaya?

All politicians want to be in power. Our only request is that the EC conduct elections fairly.

Mangodurian: Shouldn't the EC be making less biased statements? They shouldn't care about who forms the government. In any case, why should the commission care about a few people expressing their dissenting views? Do your job, EC, and leave politics to politicians.

Terus: Now the Wan Ahmad is clearly taking sides. Does he not know that as an EC personnel, he has to be impartial and cannot take sides? While he may personally favour the BN, he has to be wary about stating his position publicly and cannot simply let things fly from his big mouth.

Ruling Prerogative : The EC's only job is to impartially and faithfully arrange the holding of free and fair elections. It is no part at all of the EC's duly appointed and constitutionally mandated functions to indulge in comment, speculation or selective, partisan accusations about the purported motives and intentions of various political organisations, groupings or interests.

An EC that does not understand its role, but instead violates its duties in this way has, in effect, disqualified itself from any further involvement in the responsible management of democratic elections. It is time for the EC deputy chief and his compliant team to step down.

Dila: Are these the words of someone or an institution that is supposed to be independent? After this, can you believe that the EC is independent anymore?

Meenakumari: The demands of the Bersih 2.0 are fair. If they're good for all, then the EC should just implement them. Why all the fuss?

Of course, the opposition parties are affected by all the gerrymandering. But let it be a fair election and let the people decide. Why all the ludicrous onslaught by those in power. Why the fear?

NX: What is wrong with Pakatan taking over Putrajaya? The EC is supposed to be neutral, yet its deputy commissioner makes this kind of statement? If elections are so neutral and fair, try explaining the gerrymandering.

Phee Boon Jin: Whoever tries to build his or her momentum to win Putrajaya is none of your concern, EC. Your job is to see to a fair election.

Henry Hock Guan Teh: The EC should be independent. So why is Wan Ahmad talking as though he is a stooge for the BN? And what's wrong with the recommendations by Bersih? Adverse inferences against the  EC can be drawn if it thinks Bersih's recommendations are wrong.

Anonymous_3e97: So what if Bersih is a stooge for Pakatan - EC has been known to be a stooge for BN all these years. Bersih's demands are the result of EC's non-performance in tying up the loose ends.

The EC has not changed with time. Malaysia's Gen Y is a generation armed with knowledge and information, but  the EC instead is being run by a generation of dinosaurs.

R Venugopal: The EC should be neutral, and its task is to run elections professionally and eliminate abuses such phantom voters, illegal ICs, etc. EC, this is should be your role, but you are acting as though you are the ruling party.

Quigonbond: To come out loud to demonise Bersih as an opposition vehicle is another sign that the EC is a BN stooge.

Bersih has already indicated that the rally is open to participation by all political parties. The fact that BN has miscalculated and decided to go against it while the opposition parties embrace it is through no fault of Bersih or the opposition parties, but of the BN alone.

This could have been a celebration of democracy by all of Malaysia.

The EC is also putting up an irrelevant condition for speaking with Bersih (in the first place, Bersih is past speaking with the EC, so this is ‘syok sendiri').

The question isn't who is supporting Bersih demands, but whether those demands are good or otherwise.

Malaysians will be the first to say there is absolutely nothing wrong in Bersih's demands.

Surely the EC can exercise some independent thinking and be discerning enough to see the trees from the woods. Look at the substance of Bersih demands, and not who is supporting it.

Bert: This clearly shows that EC is not impartial. Is it in the constitution that only BN must rule the country forever and ever, however corrupted and racial they can be?

The EC has missed the point - the rally is by the people for a clean and fair election.

Alan Goh: Such bird-brain, lop-sided comment by the EC is all more the reason why Bersih rally on July 9 calling for clean, fair and just elections must go on.

DannyLoHH: The EC has been playing the stooge for Umno for too long a time that it is now beyond the capability of the EC chief to fathom anything that is independent.

Since Bersih is not beholden to Umno, so naturally Wan Ahmad would come to the conclusion that Bersih is a Pakatan cat's paw.

If  the BN could not ride on the Bersih wave, that is the BN's own fault. The demand of Bersih is clear and simple: A free and fair election.

Most of the measures requested are straight forward and easily implemented.

All Umno and BN have to do is implement the measures and pledge to support free and fair elections, and they would have won the hearts and minds of many voters.

JBGUY: Wan Ahmad, clearly you have disparaged the EC by showing that you are a BN stooge.

Even if Bersih is associated with Pakatan, their demands are fair and something which the EC must work for without being asked.

So far, EC officials seem to be spouting statements which would normally come from the BN, whose supporters are happy with the flawed election system.

If you have a conscience and if you respect the office that you hold, you should be implementing the eight demands of Bersih.

Anonymous: Is that something that a supposedly independent body is supposed to say? By their own words, they actually admitted that they are trying to stop Pakatan from winning the next general election.

It makes me sick to think I've paid for their salaries. EC, disassociate yourself from the BN first, then talk to Bersih.

Rakyat Malaysia: Fair election is good for all political parties because it gives power to the people to choose their own government and to ensure they are not manipulated. So what is the big fuss?

Shabaruddin: The EC has just openly declared themselves as being part of  theBN. Independent, my foot.

TehTarik: What a lot of crap from the EC deputy chairperson. His statements prove without an iota of doubt that the EC is completely partisan and a tool of the ruling party. What a hypocrite.

He demands that Bersih dissociates itself from Pakatan. If so, why doesn't the EC itself disassociate from the ruling party?

He asks the people to judge for themselves as to whether the EC is independent. Why doesn't the EC commission a poll to gauge the people's sentiment of the EC?

Better still, get a group of international election observers to monitor the elections as has been done in dozens of other countries. Or are you afraid of being caught for foul play?

Sarawakian_3ff9: It is funny, isn't it? A stooge accusing others of being stooges?