Give EC power to take action against electoral offenders, NGOs urge

Putrajaya has been urged to reform and empower the Election Commission by giving it the power to take action against electoral offenders, in the same vein as Indonesia's central Election Monitoring Body (Bawaslu).

As Bersih executive director Yap Swee Seng said today, the EC currently has to rely on the police to enforce the Election Offences Act 1954...