Malacca assembly blow for pro-Anwar Senate candidate


Nabihah Hamid

The Malacca Assembly in session. Assemblymen today rejected the Pakatan Harapan nominee for the Senate by one vote, 13 to 12. – MPAG handout pic, November 25, 2019.

THE Malacca government has suffered the embarrassment of becoming the first incumbent state administration in the country’s history to have failed to get its candidate elected to the Senate.

Halim Bachik failed to get elected after Pakatan Harapan could not secure the numbers needed in the 28-seat assembly.


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