Ec Postpones Padang Serai Polling To Dec 7

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The election for the Padang Serai parliamentary seat has been postponed to Dec 7, following the death of one of its contenders, M Karupaiya.
The Election Commission (EC) said the nomination day will be on Nov 24, while early voting will take place on Dec 3.
It stressed that there will be no polling for Padang Serai tomorrow which is when the rest of the country is set to cast their votes in the 15th general election.
All online applications for postal votes will be open from today to Nov 22.
The nomination process on Nov 24 will take place at the Dewan Kompleks Sukan Kulim Hi-Tech, Kulim.
“All qualified candidates who have been verified previously are required to be present at the nomination centre to draw their number on the ballot paper.
“Meanwhile, new candidates who wish to contest in the GE15 election for Padang Serai have to hand over their completed nomination papers… on nomination day,” the EC said in a statement today.
The contest for Padang Serai was meant to be a six-way fight between incumbent M Karupaiya (Pakatan Harapan) versus Pejuang’s Hamzah Abd Rahman, BN’s C Sivarraajh, Perikatan Nasional’s Azman Nasrudin, Warisan’s Mohd Bakhri Hashim and independent candidate Ananda AK.
However, Karupaiya collapsed on the campaign trail on Monday (Nov 14) and died at the Kulim Hospital the following day. The businessperson and former military officer was 69 years old.
The postponement of the Padang Serai election would, in theory, reduce the threshold for a simple majority in Parliament to 111 seats instead of 112, since only 221 seats are now being contested.
Malaysians will head to the polls on Nov 19, with early voting having already taken place on Nov 15, including in Padang Serai. - Mkini

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