AMBIGA AGREES TO MEET COMMISSION 

PETALING JAYA: Bersih co-chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan has agreed to meet with the Election Commission.

She agreed to this during a debate with Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin when he extended an invitation to her to do so together with himself and other members of parliament.

Ambiga had initially been reluctant to do so when Khairy first brought the matter up during the "Electoral Reform: Is Enough Being Done?" debate between the two.

"I ask you as a Malaysian to a Malaysian, let's go to the EC together with all MPs and look at the cases one by one, sit down and get the answers from EC.

"No more PCs (press conferences), no more shouting at each other. Please be reasonable, I offer my hand in friendship... let's go," said Khairy.

Ambiga replied that she did not have confidence in the commission but later relented.

"Have us there so we can explain what we mean and have them there so they can respond," she said to Khairy.

During the debate, Khairy took Ambiga to task for insisting on going ahead with the Bersih sit-in protest on Saturday, saying it was "pre-empting and prejudicial of" the reforms that were now taking place following the setting up of the parliamentary select committee on the matter.

He said seven of eight Bersih demands had been met.

After the debate, Ambiga described Khairy as a "formidable adversary" while the latter said the debate would ensure that the public heard and understood both sides.

The debate was the second in The Malay Mail's "Spark The Debate" series. - NST


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