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KUALA LUMPUR - Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has reiterated that the announcement of new projects or policies during election campaigns is prohibited under election laws.
He said the restriction is in line with Section 24B of the Election Offences Act 1954.
"Our position remains unchanged. Once nomination day has been announced, campaigning may proceed, but there must be no announcement or promise of new projects or new policies for the state concerned.
"Government machinery must not be used to announce new projects during the campaign period, whether by city councils, state governments or the Federal Government,” he said during the Minister’s Question Time in the Dewan Rakyat today.
The Prime Minister said this in reply to Datuk Seri Dr Shahidan Kassim (PN-Arau), who wanted to know whether the prohibition on announcing government allocations or projects after nomination day remains in force and how compliance will be enforced ahead of the Johor, Melaka and Negeri Sembilan state elections.
Anwar said, however, that announcing projects that had already been approved or allocated funding under a previous federal budget does not breach election regulations. - BERNAMA
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