KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 14 — The winner of Umno Youth vice-chief’s post will be announced after Aidiladha after the two top candidates obtained the same number of votes.
Umno Election Committee chairman Tan Sri Tajol Rosli Ghazali said Jamawi Jaafar and Khairul Azwan Harun, each received 73 votes, from 190 divisions.
“As such, the outcome for the movement’s number two post will be decided based on the counting of popular votes,” he told a press conference at Menara Dato’ Onn, Putra World Trade Centre here yesterday.
Under the electoral college voting system introduced for the first time in the party election system, any candidate who received the most votes from any one division would only be counted as getting one vote from the division.
Popular vote is based on the actual number of votes given by the delegates to every candidate.
Tajol Rosli said to be fair to Jamawi and Khairul Azwan, the election committee had decided to recount the votes they received from the 190 divisions.
“We will take back the ballots from all the 190 divisions, total them and then we will be able to know who will win the post of Umno Youth vice-chief.”
Other than Jamawi and Khairul Azwan, the post was also contested by Mohamad Iruan Zulkefli and Lokman Noor Adam, with each getting 26 and 18 votes.
A total 191 Umno divisions concluded their elections on Saturday except for Gelang Patah which was postponed due to internal problems.
Meanwhile, Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Mansor said both the candidates or their representatives would be summoned to Umno headquarters after Aidiladha to witness the recounting of popular votes.
“We have a (record) of the number of popular votes (now), but we must be fair to them and as such will call them to come and witness the recounting.”
Umno executive secretary, Datuk Ab Rauf Yusoh said the date of the recounting had not been decided and would be announced later. — Bernama
