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Nurul Izzah denied entry into Sarawak

December 6, 2015, Sunday Churchill Edward, reporters@theborneopost.com

Immigration officer informing Nurul Izzah of the ban. Photo courtesy of Dr A. Xavier.

Dr A.Xavier (fifth left from left front row) and Batu Lintang assemblyman See Chee How (third left front row) at KIA. Photo courtesy of Dr A. Xavier.

KUCHING: Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar is the latest opposition leader to be banned from entering Sarawak.
Nurul Izzah, who is PKR vice president and election director, arrived at Kuching International Airport on AK5210 at around 4pm, but was told by immigration officers that she had been barred from entering the state.
She will be on board the next available flight to KL around 7pm, said Seri Andalas assemblyman Dr A. Xavier Jayakumar who was accompanying Nurul Izzah on the flight.
A. Xavier also said he will be delivering a name list of potential candidates for the state election tonight on behalf of Nurul Izzah at a hotel here.
He said no reason was given for barring Nurul Izzah but it was a clear indication that the state government feared facing the people.
She was supposed to announce PKR’s potential candidates for the coming state election at a hotel here this evening.
However, it is believed that the ban had to do with Nurul Izzah and Batu MP Tian Chua’s meeting with Jacel Kiram, the daughter of self-proclaimed Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram.
Late last month, the Sabah State Assembly passed a motion to ban Nurul Izzah and Tian Chua from entering Sabah.
Sarawak has autonomy over its immigration regulations and has barred opposition leaders such as Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua, Tian Chua, Seputeh MP Teresa Kok, Ampang MP Zuraida Kamaruddin, Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli, PKR election director Datuk Saifuddin Nasution and Subang MP R Sivarasa from entering the state.


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Nurul Izzah barred from entering Sarawak

FMT Reporters

 | December 6, 2015

 Order came from chief minister's office, says Xavier Jayakumar.

KUALA LUMPUR: Nurul Izzah Anwar was barred from entering Sarawak today, on orders believed to have come from the chief minister’s office.
She was stopped by immigration officers on arrival at Kuching airport. Nurul Izzah, a vice-president of PKR, had been on her way to a party ceremony tonight to announce the PKR candidates who will contest the coming Sarawak state elections.
Nurul Izzah, who is MP for Lembah Pantai, announced the news on Twitter at 4pm, saying: “As soon as I arrived in Sarawak, there were immigration officers waiting to escort me back. New ban issued. An abuse of state powers!”
She had been accompanied on the flight by Dr Xavier Jayakumar, also a PKR vice-president, who told reporters at Kuching airport that the immigration officers informed Nurul Izzah the order came from the Chief Minister’s Office, according to Malaysian Insider.
She posted an image of an official notice signed by Sarawak immigration director Kamarol Johari which said “Nurul Izzah is barred under Section 65 (1)(a) of the Immigration Act 1959/63″.
The Sarawak action comes weeks after the Sabah state assembly voted to bar her from the state after she was photographed with Jacel Kiram, daughter of the late Sulu separatist leader, an armed group of whose followers attacked Lahad Datu in 2013.
Nurul Izzah noted that she was now among eight peninsular politicians and activists who had been barred from entering Sarawak, including the MP for Seputeh, DAP’s Teresa Kok; the MP for Batu, PKR vice-president Tian Chua; and the MP for Ampang, PKR Wanita leader Zuraida Kamaruddin. Others included social activists Ambiga Sreenevasan, Maria Chin Abdullah, Hishammuddin Rais, and Adam Adli.

Proccess to redelineate Sabah constituencies to begin next year, sunday, 6th December, 2015

By TEOH PEI YING | New Straits Times – 1 hour 27 minutes ago

PORT DICKSON: The process of the redelineation of electoral constituencies will begin in Sabah next year, followed by states in the peninsula.

Election Commission (EC) chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said the commission would submit a proposal to the Sabah government next year.
“We will carry out the redelineation exercise in Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia. In our planning, we will start with Sabah.
“The notice will be issued beginning next year, as the redelineation process is complicated,” he said after the launch of the EC caravan unit at Kampung Orang Asli Bukit Kepong, here today.

Aziz said the redelineation in Sabah and the peninsula would not take place simultaneously.

“The EC will select the most suitable method for us to conduct the exercise.
“We learnt a lot during the Sarawak redelineation exercise, and we will use that experience for Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia.”
He said based on the experience in Sarawak, it would take about a year to complete the process.
Last Tuesday, it was reported that the EC was studying the redelineation of constituencies in Sabah.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said had said in Parliament that data on development, population growth and the number of voters had to be compiled first.

Last Wednesday, Parliament had approved the addition of 11 state constituencies in Sarawak.

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Sabah redelineation to be done early next year, says EC, sunday, 6th December, 2015

The Malaysian Insider – 1 hour 15 minutes ago

The Election Commission (EC) is scheduled to carry out a redelineation exercise in Sabah early next year.

Its chairman, Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof, said this would be followed by redelineation in the peninsula.
The redelineation for Sarawak has been completed.
Following the exercise, the Dewan Rakyat on December 2 passed a motion on the redelineation of the federal and state electoral boundaries in Sarawak, which saw an addition of 11 seats in the state assembly.
Sarawak has 71 state assembly seats.
“We have learned a lot from the experience in Sarawak, and we will use that experience for Sabah and the peninsula.
“Our target is to use the redelineation in the next general election,” he told a news conference after the EC's Friendly Visit programme to the Bukit Kepong Orang Asli village in Pasir Panjang, near Port Dickson, today.
Also present were EC deputy chairman Datuk Seri Mohd Hashim Abdullah, and secretary Datuk Abdul Ghani Salleh.
Aziz said the redelineation was a complicated process because there was a lot of “noise” from certain quarters, which even led to EC being brought to court.
He said EC had acquired six caravan vehicles worth RM1.2 million this year to expand the voter registration service, particularly in the rural and remote areas.
“Having these caravan vehicles will enable our officers to carry out outreach programmes and to monitor the operations and inspections for the registration of voters nationwide.” – Bernama, December 6, 2015.