SELANGOR Pakatan Harapan has agreed on the allocation of 35 state seats in Selangor for the 14^th general election, with talks on the remaining 21 seats expected to begin soon, said DAP deputy chairman Gobind Singh Deo.

The allocated seats are those contested by PKR, DAP and Amanah in the last elections, Gobind told reporters after a PH meeting today.

“We have completed 35 seats, which I believe make up 60% to 62% of the total seats available.

“What we will do next is to hold separate bilateral and trilateral talks before completing the negotiation of the remaining seats,” he said.

In Penang, state PH chairman Lim Guan Eng said the coalition’s top leadership, meaning the leaders of Bersatu, DAP, Amanah and PKR, would settle negotiations over 10 state seats yet to be distributed among the four parties.

DAP, which leads the Penang government, holds 19 seats and will be defending them in the coming general election. The same applies for PKR’s 10 seats. The sole PAS-held seat, Permatang Pasir will be left to Amanah to contest.

Bersatu, Amanah and PKR are eyeing the remaining 10 seats, which are Malay majority and held by Barisan Nasional’s Umno.

In the 2013 general elections, when PAS was allied to Pakatan Rakyat, the 10 seats were split between the Islamist party and PKR, except for the Sungai Acheh seat for which there was a multi-cornered fight due to both PKR and PAS being in the contest.

PKR had earlier indicated that it wished to take on the 16 seats it previously contested, while Amanah had wanted to take over all the six seats PAS had contested. 

New PH partner Bersatu, an Umno splinter party, meanwhile, had been keen on contesting all 10 BN-held seats. –  February 7, 2018.