KHAIRY Jamaluddin wanted to contest in the Sungai Buloh parliamentary seat and that is why he was fielded in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) stronghold, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said.

“He asked for it. He asked for the seat to be given to him, that is why I endorsed him,” the Barisan Nasional chairman told reporters after attending an event in n Titiwangsa last night.

The Bagan Datuk incumbent said the caretaker health minister’s ambition to become prime minister in future would depend on the next general election.

The incumbent Rembau lawmaker is making his debut in Sungai Buloh, after he had to make way for Umno deputy president Mohamad Hasan, who is also the party’s division chief.

On Tuesday, while on the stump for votes in Sungai Buloh, Khairy had expressed his desire to become the prime minister in future and told voters at a ceramah that they would be rooting for a future prime minister if they helped him finish first in the ballot.

Khairy had been the Rembau MP for three terms but made way for Mohamad in this general election.

Khairy is facing PH’s R. Ramanan, Perikatan Nasional’s Ghazali Hamin, Pejuang’s Akmal Yusoff, Parti Rakyat Malaysia’s Ahmad Zukri Faisal and two Independent candidates for the seat.

Incumbent R. Sivarasa, who had retained the seat for three terms for PH, was dropped due to health reasons. – November 10, 2022.