Sarawak political newbie grapples with election SOP


Desmond Davidson

The Sarawak election campaigning rules are making things difficult for new candidates like Cheriche Ng. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, December 15, 2021.

AFTER 10 days of campaigning, PKR’s Batu Lintang candidate Cherishe Ng is still grappling with the problem of how to reach the 29,694 voters in this urban Kuching constituency without violating the Covid-19 standard operating procedure (SOP) for the elections.

Cherishe, at 24, and one of the two youngest candidates in the Sarawak polls, is a first-timer and an unknown, even though her father, Dominique Ng, is a high-profile politician. He became PKR’s first-ever state assemblyman when he won the Padungan seat in the 2006 elections.


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