Tg Piai loss not opportunity to take potshots at each other, says Azmin

Updated 4 years ago · Published on 18 Nov 2019 10:50AM · 11 Comments

BN’s Wee Jeck Seng won the Tg Piai seat by a massive 15,000 majority to deliver a stunning defeat to Pakatan Harapan. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, November 18, 2019.

AZMIN Ali has called for unity among Pakatan Harapan leaders and members as a blame game breaks out over the coalition’s massive defeat in the Tg Piai by-election. 

Azmin, the economic affairs minister, said the government needs to feel the pulse of the people and listen to their grouses and concerns.

“This is not the time for members and leaders of Pakatan Harapan to take potshots at each other or take advantage of the situation to challenge the coalition’s leadership,” Azmin, a coalition vice-president, said in a statement today.

“Any attack on the leadership will only continue to weaken Pakatan Harapan and its effectiveness in governing the country,” said Azmin, also a deputy president in PKR, a PH component party. 

His comments follow calls from veterans in his own party for Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad to take the by-election loss as a signal not to delay his handover of power to PKR president Anwar Ibrahim. 

In Saturday’s by-election, Wee Jeck Seng won by 15,086 votes.

The Barisan Nasional candidate got 25,466 votes while his closest competition, PH’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 Dr Md Farid Md Rafik, 42, on September 21 from heart complications. He had won the seat for PH in last year’s general election. 

“I urge every leader and member of Pakatan to continue to give their undivided support to Dr Mahathir, the prime minister and chairman of Pakatan to continue to lead the country and coalition.”

Meanwhile in Bersatu, certain members have blamed its youth chief, Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman, for failure to organise an effective machinery to canvass for votes.

PH lost the seat on Saturday by a massive 15,000 votes, one of the biggest electoral losses in Malaysian history by a ruling coalition.

Azmin said today the loss is a challenge to each leader and member of the coalition to prove to the public that they can work together as a team.

“This is a time to unite our strengths and face the new reality together. We must put out an effective and coherent communication plan to address negative perceptions towards the government and
Pakatan Harapan.

“We need to recognise that what we think is best for the rakyat may sometimes not be necessarily so.”

Azmin urged the government to take immediate steps to uplift the socio-economic wellbeing of all Malaysians be they youth, women, minority groups or whether they live in rural or urban areas. – November 18, 2019.

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  • Trying to protect his master, knowing full well if the latter goes, so does he. All spoken with a heavy dose of self-interest.

    Posted 4 years ago by Arul Inthirarajah · Reply

  • Azmin ih Azmin ... what it means is that, voters are not keen that you potong jalan from Anwar to become prime minister ...

    Posted 4 years ago by Rock Hensem · Reply

  • Lol, from the guy who don't attend meetings & take potshots at his party at every opportunity.

    Posted 4 years ago by A Subscriber · Reply

  • celaka asmin .

    Posted 4 years ago by Astann astann · Reply

  • It is a vote directly against Mahatir
    It is a vote against PKR infighting headed by Azmin to derail Anwar
    It is a vote against Bersatu

    Posted 4 years ago by S L · Reply

  • One of prime reason is Azmain Ali Not Loyal to President of PKR. Votes hate this.

    Posted 4 years ago by Husin Che Ismail · Reply

  • One of prime reason is Azmain Ali Not Loyal to President of PKR. Votes hate this.

    Posted 4 years ago by Husin Che Ismail · Reply

  • Lu tau apa Mat Jub*r

    Posted 4 years ago by Mo Salleh · Reply

  • Yes it is. Time for the ilk of you to leave.

    Posted 4 years ago by Yoon Kok · Reply

  • Azmin, please be a leader and a great leader, talk to your party members and befriend with them back and don't get hurt and not turn up to your party meeting. Meet your current leader Anwar and reconcile with him. This is the only way to keep the PH strong. I have seen all the Ceramah video where you are in when Mahathir is speaking before GE14 and you seems to have a mistrust to him. And now you are a champion for him, so people do change.

    Posted 4 years ago by Victor Chan · Reply

  • who wants to listen to a hypocrite?...betrays his own party leader and then talks a lot.

    Posted 4 years ago by Lipdah Lia · Reply