Umno is contesting six Malay-majority seats in Penang and 12 in Selangor. Read more at straitstimes.com.
GEORGE TOWN/KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia’s former grand old party Umno is banking on support from its ally Pakatan Harapan and its voters to make a comeback at the state elections in Penang and Selangor, after putting in its worst performance everPH and Umno’s main rival, opposition coalition Perikatan Nasional , is expected to put up a tough battle to wrest control of the country’s two most industrialised states from PH.
Umno is contesting six Malay-majority seats in Penang and 12 in Selangor under the BN banner. Its direct competitor is PN, which counts two Malay-Muslim-based parties – Parti Islam SeMalaysia and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia – as its key members. But Penang Umno deputy chairman Shaik Hussein Mydin said: “We explained to voters that there is no difference between us working with Gerakan than with DAP. In fact, DAP treated us better by giving us the Sungai Dua seat and helped us a lot in our campaign.”
Umno’s Dusun Tua candidate Datuk Johan Abd Aziz meeting voters at Taman Suntex, on Aug 9. PHOTO: AHMAD LUQMAN ISMAIL“Even with some degree of voter transferability, it looks like a tough fight for Umno in Penaga and Permatang Berangan seats”, said Dr Francis Hutchinson, coordinator for the Malaysia studies programme at Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute.
A voter in Selangor who only wanted to be known as Mr Azizi said PN did not have good strategies when it was in federal government during the Covid-19 pandemic and blames it for the losses suffered by his photocopy shop during lockdown. Selangor chief minister Amirudin Shari and Selangor Umno chief Megat Zulkarnain Omardin with their supporters in Tapak Uptown Sri Gombak, on Aug 8. PHOTO: MEDIA SELANGOR
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