The Election Commission has said that since most people in Pengkalan Kubor are either fishermen or farmers, it should not be a problem to hold the by-election on a week day. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Afif Abd Halim, September 16, 2014.
The Kelantan state government has declared September 25 a public holiday to enable more people to cast their votes in the Pengkalan Kubor by-election, a report in The Star Online said.
The report said Kelantan deputy Mentri Besar Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah criticised the decision of the Election Commission (EC) to hold elections on a weekday, despite the suggestions by PAS to have the by-election on a weekend.
“To hold polling day on a workday is to deny the people their opportunity to vote so the Kelantan state government has declared it to be a public holiday.
“We hope companies and employers of residents living outside Kelantan will also give voters the flexibility to come back and vote,” The Star Online reported him as saying during a press conference at the PAS Pengkalan Kubor operations base in Kampung Getting.
On Saturday, Election Commission (EC) chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof had said that as a majority of Pengkalan Kubor residents were fishermen or farmers, voting on a weekday should not be a problem as they did not follow usual working hours.
The Pengkalan Kubor seat, one of the four state seats in the Tumpat constituency, became vacant after Umno's Datuk Noor Zahidi Omar died from lung cancer on August 20.
There are 24,039 registered voters in the constituency.
- TMI
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