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KUALA LUMPUR: Terengganu Pakatan Harapan (PH) chairman, Datuk
Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah Raja Ahmad yesterday (Jan 23) claimed that
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'sedekah' (charity) from RM300 to RM600 was offered to voters in the
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state.

He claimed that the cash handouts given to Terengganu voters during the
15th General Election (GE15) seemed unusually large. NATION Jan 24, 2023 @ 12:11am

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Raja Kamarul further said the public had also started making various hours for Immigration inspection at
assumptions due to the hundreds of billions of ringgit in government KLIA
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chairman Datuk Ahmad Said, about widespread corruption during GE15 in
the state is not surprising to us in Pakatan Harapan.

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"What surprised us was Pas' involvement. They've been branding Goalkeeper Hafizuddin deserves
themselves as Islamic champions (pejuang Islam) but the group was special praise

widely associated with the incident.

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widely associated with the incident.

"Video clips of certain parties providing money to voters in exchange for

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promises of a 'pledge' to support a particular party have been circulated,
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"One of the things that surprised us was the Pas president's statement
that there is nothing wrong with giving 'sedakah' during the GE15
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campaign period," he wrote on a Twitter thread.
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Raja Kamarul added that Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang's logic regarding the of the no-contest decision

"charity" cash handouts was misguided because only the National Fatwa
Council could determine matters regarding the intention of charity.

He said that former deputy chairman of the Election Commission, Datuk STORIES FROM SAYS
Wan Ahmad, had stated that giving money during the GE campaign was a Jan 23, 2023 @ 2:27pm
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"If Hadi described the giving of cash as 'sedekah' and Hamzah said it
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determine. But one can't expect the National Fatwa Council to be on duty
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every election," he said.
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"Isn't the time when people need 'sedekah' before school reopens and the We'll Guess Your Lucky Colour For The
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"Charity was also needed after the floods hit Terengganu which happened
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in mid-December and not earlier in early November when 'sedekah' was
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widely given to voters. Bintang

"The PN government claims that they are a clean and perfect government,
as if they are innocent, but why is bribery so rampant as never seen before
in Terengganu in GE15? What is the real 'intention' of this 'charity'?"

Hadi had on Saturday said those caught on video handing out money to
voters in three Terengganu constituencies during GE15 were just ordinary
people giving out charity.

The Marang member of parliament said there was nothing wrong with
such an act as electoral laws stated that only candidates and their
representatives were not allowed to give any form of handout.

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam

Baki, however, said Pas leaders could describe the act of giving cash
handouts during the GE15 campaign period any way they want, but the
graftbusters were investigating it as potential vote-buying.

He said it did not matter if they used terms like sedekah, as it was still
corruption as defined under Section 10 of the Election Offences Act 1954.

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