NEWLY minted MP for Tg Piai Wee Jeck Seng has been sworn in as a member of the Dewan Rakyat today morning.

With his arrival in Parliament, the Barisan Nasional now has 42 MPs.

Wee was declared the winner of the Tg Piai by-election with a 15,086-vote majority.

The MCA man got 25,466 votes, while his closest competition, Pakatan Harapan’s Karmaine Sardini, polled 10,380.

Gerakan’s Wendy Subramaniam won 1,707 votes, Berjasa’s Badhrulhisham Abdul Aziz (850), and independents Ang Chuan Lock (380) and Faridah Aryani Abd Ghaffar (32).

The by-election was called following the death of Pakatan Harapan’s Md Farid Md Rafik, 42, on September 21 due to heart complications.

He won the seat in last year’s 14th general election. – November 18, 2019.