Bersih acting chairman Shahrul Aman Mohd Shaari said it would be contempt of court if the Dewan Rakyat was dissolved before the High Court ruled on a legal challenge filed by 107 objectors against the EC for refusing to hear their complaints.
High Court judge Azimah Omar had fixed April 11 for a decision on whether to allow the voters to challenge the EC’s decision.
The current Dewan Rakyat seating is scheduled to end on April 5.
Lawyer Ambiga Sreenevasan, who is representing the voters, said the court today heard their submissions as well as that of the EC.
Meanwhile, senior federal counsel Amarjeet Singh, representing the EC, said the voters’ case was now academic as the motion on the redelineation report had been passed.
The Dewan Rakyat passed the motion on the redelineation report after it was tabled by Prime Minister Najib Razak.
The voters filed two civil suits this month to challenge the EC’s redrawing of electoral boundaries and its failure to hold any local enquiry.
The voters, led by former Bersih chairman Maria Chin Abdullah, previously said they had written to the EC earlier this month, demanding that it hold the inquiries.
However, the commission did not respond, leading them to file the legal challenges.
They also filed a police report on Monday claiming EC officers had committed fraud when they started receiving the letters dated March 5 to reject their request for local enquiries on March 22, the day the government presented the redelineation report in the Dewan Rakyat.
Bersih files fresh suits to challenge redrawing of electoral map