66 seats left to divide in Pakatan


Amin Iskandar

Pakatan Harapan leaders at a fundraiser last month. The opposition pact says it is ready even if the elections are called at year-end. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, October 7, 2017.

PAKATAN Harapan has 66 federal seats in the peninsula, most of them Malay-majority constituencies, left for the pact to divide among its component parties ahead of the next general election, which must be held before August 2018.

This represents 40% of the 166 parliamentary seats in the peninsula that PH is targeting and negotiations among the parties are said to have been delayed by the inclusion of Bersatu in the pact, a source privy to the talks said.


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