00:00The Election Commission has confirmed that no by-election will be held for the Subang parliamentary seat
00:06following PKR's Wong Chen's resignation as MP.
00:10EC Chairman Ramlan Harun said the Commission was notified of the vacancy by Dewan Rakyat Speaker Johari Abdul yesterday.
00:18Citing Article 54, Subsection 1 of the Federal Constitution,
00:23the EC noted that Johari had informed the Commission there was no need to fill the casual vacancy.
00:30Wong, who had served as Subang MP since May 2018, announced his resignation yesterday
00:36after handing his resignation letter to Johari last Wednesday.
00:40He explained that the timing was intended to give parliamentary officers three working days to prepare for the vacancy.
00:48Wong previously represented Kelana Jaya from 2013 to 2018
00:53and revealed that he and Johari had agreed not to disclose details of his resignation until yesterday.
01:00He was among three PKR MPs recently barred from accessing the MyHas portal,
01:06which manages special constituency allocations, alongside Ampang MP Rodzia Ismail and Petaling Jaya MP Li Qian Chong.
01:14All three MPs had attended the launch of Bersama in May,
01:18a party now led by former PKR leaders Rafizi Ramli and Nick Nazmi, Nick Ahmad.
01:24Roman Dawi Gapari, FMT.
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