BERSIH MASS RALLY NOVEMBER 10
Sekretariat Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil (BERSIH)
4A Jalan Sepadu, Taman United, 58200 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: (03) 7980 6571, Fax: (03) 7980 2697, URL: www.bersih.org
The Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (BERSIH) will hold a mass rally on
10 November (Saturday), starting from 3 pm, at Dataran Merdeka to press for
electoral reform. A memorandum will be subsequently submitted to the Yang
Dipertuan Agong.
This latest citizen action organized by BERSIH will demonstrate the growing
public demand for the four immediate actions necessary to reform the flawed
electoral process: (a) a thorough clean-up of electoral rolls; (b) the user of
indelible inks to prevent multiple voting; (c) the abolition of postal voting
for military and police personnel; (d) fair access to mass media for all
parties and candidates.
The memorandum to be submitted to the Yang DiPertuan Agong will outline both
immediate and long-term reforms needed in the Malaysian election process
including the adherence of "one-person one-vote" principle.
BERSIH has chosen yellow, the colour for citizen actions worldwide and the
colour for press freedom movement (yellow ribbon) in Malaysia, as the colour
for this rally. Citizens may indicate their support with the rally's t-shirts,
posters, yellow armbands, yellow ribbons or any creative expression.
Free and fair conduct of elections is fundamental to democracy. Flawed
elections frustrate the functioning of democracy, resulting in corruptions and
incompetence of the government. The losers are none other than the people.
To date, the Government and Elections Commission however have arrogantly
ignored all demands other than indelible ink. The Chairman and Secretary must
honourably tender their resignation if they cannot discharge their
constitutional duty to ensure genuinely democratic elections.
BERSIH, a coalition of 64 civil society groups and five political parties,
urges all concerned citizens to join in the mass rally on 10 November which
will be attended by leaders and representatives of civil society and political
parties.
For enquiries, please contact the secretariats; Faisal Mustaffa 019-2232002 or
Medeline Chang 012-2192010.
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