KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 18 — The Selangor government will decide next week if it would formally object to the Election Commission’s (EC) proposed changes to several constituencies within the state.

Selangor state executive councillor Datuk Teng Chang Khim said the matter would be deliberated in the upcoming state executive council meeting this Wednesday.

"We will discuss it at the exco meeting,” Teng said in a brief text reply to Malay Mail Online.

At the same time Selangor PAS commissioner and executive councillor Datuk Iskandar Samad said his party’s Selangor chapter will file an objection.

"Cannot comment about State Govt as I am in Makkah now. But PAS Selangor will file our objection,” the Cempaka assemblyman told Malay Mail Online.

The commission in an 18-page notice had proposed to alter the electoral boundaries of several parliamentary and state constituencies in all states bar Perlis, Labuan and Putrajaya.

The amendments could see 12 parliamentary and 34 state constituencies in the peninsula undergo a name change while it also listed 13 proposed new state constituencies for Sabah, increasing the number of the state seats to 73.

EC secretary Datuk Abdul Ghani Salleh was reported saying the review would be conducted based on the provisions of Clause (2) Article 113 of the Federal Constitution and amendments to Clause (2) Article 14 of the Sabah State Constitution, gazetted on Aug 18.

But state governments, local authorities partly or partially included in the redelineation exercise, or a group of no less than 100 registered voters of an affected constituency are eligible to object to the recommendations.

Pakatan Harapan leaders alleged the some of the proposed redelineation exercise would carve out opposition-held federal and state seats to favour Barisan Nasional, especially in Johor and Selangor.