CHERAS, May 14 — The federal government is not legally or even morally obliged to act on the one million signatures collected by a self-styled citizens’ movement calling itself “Save Malaysia”, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said today.

Ahmad Zahid who is also home minister was weighing in on the non-partisan group’s announcement yesterday that it will present its collection of one million signatures supporting a call for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s resignation to the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong for action.

“They may submit, if there is one million signatures, to anybody that they would like to submit to.

“In any law, there’s no such thing as with one million signatures, any legal action, moral obligation has to take place. I didn’t see that so far,” he told a news conference after officiating  the Home Ministry’s Family Day at the General Operations Force camp here.

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, a former prime minister who is also the spokesman for the Save Malaysia movement, said yesterday that 1.271 million signatures were collected to date; with 1.07 million through online petition forms and another 200,000 signatures on printed forms.

Dr Mahathir stressed that the Save Malaysia secretariat also rejected some 253,000 signatures that did not contain IC numbers or those where the IC numbers and names did not match.

The Save Malaysia movement said in April that it plans to hand over one million signatures to the Conference of Rulers asking the monarchs to intervene in the country’s political situation.