Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin will name the five Barisan Nasional MPs of the parliamentary select committee (PSC) on the electoral process soon, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said Wednesday.
Muhyiddin would submit the list of names to the Parliamentary Rights and Privileges Committee chaired by Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia, he added.
"The three opposition MPs and the sole independent MP could also submit their names to Pandikar before I table the motion at the next sitting of the Dewan Rakyat, in October," told a news conference at the Legal Affairs Division in the Prime Minister's Department, here.
Last month, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced that a PSC would be formed to look into ways to improve the country's electoral process.
The committee is to be chaired by a Cabinet minister.
Nazri said he tabled a memorandum prepared by the Election Commission (EC) on the formation of the PSC at today's meeting of the Cabinet.
"The Cabinet has agreed to the framework. If you look at the framework, it is very wide ... to look into matters which will strengthen the EC to ensure free and fair elections.
"If you go on specifics, then we are limited to the specifics only. But here, anything to strengthen the EC and to ensure free and fair elections can be discussed ... anything to improve the country's electoral process," he said.
Nazri said the Cabinet also agreed that the PSC would have six months to deliberate on the framework.
