EC ready for monsoon rain on polling day in Tioman

ROMPIN: The Election Commission is ready to face the threat of the northeast monsoon on voting day for the Tioman state seat.

EC secretary Datuk Ikmalrudin Ishak said there would be no polling centres in flood-risk areas and voters should not worry about fulfilling their responsibility as electorates.

“The nine polling centres that we have already prepared are also acting as temporary evacuation centres (PPS). God willing, the selected areas will not be flooded,” he said after visiting an early voting centre at the Rompin district police headquarters (IPD) yesterday.

A total of 17 polling stations will be opened for the Tioman election, of which, five are located on Tioman Island.

The Tioman state seat election will take place on Wednesday after it was postponed following the death of Perikatan Nasional candidate Md Yunus Ramli, 61, on Nov 19, believed to be the result of a heart attack.

The contest will be a four-cornered tussle among Barisan Nasional Datuk Seri Mohd Johari Hussain, Nor Idayu Hashim (Perikatan), Osman A. Bakar (Pejuang) and Sulaiman Bakar (independent).

Pakatan Harapan’s Mohd Fadzli Mohd Ramly has withdrawn from the race.