PKR has accused Ahmad Zahid Hamidi of spending more than 10 times the RM200,000 expense limit for his parliamentary seat campaign in GE13, to the tune of over RM2 million.
It has filed two election petitions against Zahid, accusing him of buying votes and overspending in the May 5 general election campaign.
Both petitions refer to videos posted by Zahid himself on his official website, stating that he had recruited 24,000 Bagan Datoh BN supporters, who are also local voters, as campaign workers in his run for the seat.
He also admitted, on video, to giving them RM100 and 5kg of rice each.
"He thinks he is smart in recruiting them as campaign workers and paying them, but on both counts he kantoi (is busted)," PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli told a press conference in Petaling Jaya today.
In the first petition, PKR is claiming that what Zahid did, despite the payments to voters camouflaged as benefits to campaign workers, was outright vote buying and therefore an offence under the Election Offences Act.
The second petition accuses Zahid of illegally recruiting too many workers and using more money than he is allowed to under election regulations.
PKR is arguing that the amount of money needed to pay 24,000 'campaign workers' RM100 and 5kg of rice each, works out to more than RM2 million, which is over 10 times the RM200,000 limit imposed for a parliamentary seat campaign.
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