Pakatan Harapan and Barisan Nasional’s victory in the Nenggiri by-election highlights both their strengths and weaknesses, says this researcher.
Pakatan Harapan and Barisan Nasional supporters outside a nomination centre Sungai Pusu, Selangor, on Jul 29, 2023, ahead of Malaysia 's state elections. - which combines PH with its former foe Barisan Nasional - has won a separate state by-election in the rural seat of Nenggiri, Kelantan.
Nenggiri’s nearest town, Gua Musang, is now only a three-hour drive from Kuala Lumpur and no longer isolated in the peninsula’s forested interior. Off the highway, however, local workers and primary cultivators have struggled with transport to jobs and markets. UMNO leader Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, who held the federal seat of Gua Musang from 1986 to 2022, reportedly wrote off DAP leaders as “not even proficient in Malay”, speaking to a widely held belief about Chinese Malaysians.
To be clear, PAS has used this term metaphorically to describe its electoral “war” against the DAP for several years now. But the circulation of a PAS video featuring the term, and in the thick of the Nenggiri campaign, was a boon to BN.
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