KUCHING, March 15 — High Court Judge Duncan Sikodol will decide on Friday whether the election petition filed by defeated Lubok Antu parliamentary candidate Johnical Rayong Ngipa...
KUCHING, March 15 — High Court Judge Duncan Sikodol will decide on Friday whether the election petition filed by defeated Lubok Antu parliamentary candidate Johnical Rayong Ngipa should be struck out or sustained.
The defendants filed the application on the basis that Rayong’s election petition had been filed out of time and that it did not plead all the necessary ingredients of the grounds that he complained of.On January 3, Rayong’s lawyer Clement Wong filed the election petition to seek a court declaration to nullify the election results for Lubok Antu parliamentary constituency.
On Nov 23 last year, Rayong had requested the EC recount the votes and double-check the spoilt and unreturned votes, as well as the voter turnout. During the parliamentary election, Rayong polled 6,544 votes, while Roy obtained 6,644 in a four-cornered fight for Lubok Antu.
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