Kok poses beside the billboard outside Plaza OUG in Jalan Gembira. — Picture courtesy of Teresa Kok

PETALING JAYA, May 3 — Forced to remove photos of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Lim Guan Eng, Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) Seputeh candidate Teresa Kok circumvented an Election Commission (EC) order by replacing their faces with tongue-in-cheek silhouettes.

Kok, who is DAP deputy secretary-general, claimed she was called by the EC and asked to take down a billboard featuring herself alongside the PH chairman and DAP secretary-general.

She took heed of the instruction but sought the assistance of her candidate agent Edmund Teoh to resolve the matter.

Teoh reportedly negotiated with the EC to cover the faces of Dr Mahathir and Lim only.

When Kok and her team went to “silhouette” the two PH candidates, she chalked their monikers “Tun M” and “LGE” where their faces should be.

“Today, we carried out the ceremony of covering up their faces but we put the short form of their names on it,” wrote Kok on Facebook, together with a winking face emoji.

The post has racked up over 1,800 shares and 3,500 likes at the time of writing, largely from amused supporters of the Opposition.

Kok told reporters the EC wanted the billboard, placed outside Plaza OUG in Jalan Gembira, taken down completely before agreeing that her two fellow party representatives could be blacked out.

The EC were said to have given Kok time to make the changes.

It is unclear if the EC agreed to have the initials “Tun M” and “LGE” etched on the outlined faces.