PM will lose Pagoh in GE15, says Johor MB

Mohd Farhan Darwis Hailey Chung Wee Kye Chan Kok Leong Diyana Ibrahim Mohd Farhan Darwis, Hailey Chung Wee Kye, Chan Kok Leong, Diyana Ibrahim Updated 3 years ago · Published on 28 Mar 2021 6:51PM · 0 Comments

Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will lose his Pagoh parliamentary seat in GE15 due to the low Malay support that his Perikatan government enjoys. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, March 28, 2021.

MUHYIDDIN Yassin will lose if he insists on contesting the Pagoh parliamentary seat in the next general election, said the Johor menteri besar.

“Only 26% of Malay voters support the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government that is led by Muhyiddin,” said Hasni Mohamad during the debates at the 2020 Umno General Assembly today.

“How can Bersatu win the country if the Bersatu general (Muhyiddin) himself is not safe,” he added.

The Johor Umno chief also said the Barisan Nasional (BN)-Muafakat Nasional pact was more promising than PN.

“We have decided to maintain the BN brand and contest under it in Johor,” said the Benut assemblyman.

He said PAS could also increase its share of seats if it chose Umno instead of Bersatu.

Hasni added that he had spoken to PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang after finding out that PN plans to let PAS contest 15 out the 26 parliament seats in the state in the next elections.

“But I told PAS that it would lose all the seats if it did that.”

He said despite BN’s weaknesses, PAS could only win one seat in Bukit Pasir in the last elections.

“While we won 19 seats, PAS’ victory only came after the Bersatu candidate was disqualified and all his votes went to the PAS candidate.” – March 28, 2021.

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