THE new Perikatan Nasional (PN) candidate for the Tioman state seat will still be from PAS, and the matter will be decided after the seat status is clarified by the Election Commission (EC), Pahang PN chairman Saifuddin Abdullah said.

“... as soon as possible, because it is unlikely that we will find a new candidate today. That seat is a PAS seat,” he said after casting his ballot at Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Sungai Talam, Kuantan, today.

The PN candidate for the Tioman state assembly, Md Yunus Ramli, 61, died at 3.30am at Rompin Hospital, causing the voting for the state seat today to be be postponed. The Tioman state seat is one of the 42 seats in the Pahang legislative assembly.

The contest for the Tioman state seat was to be a five-way fight between Yunus, Sulaiman Bakar (Independent), Osman A. Bakar (Pejuang), Mohd Fadzli Mohd Ramly (Pakatan Harapan) and Mohd Johari Hussain (Barisan Nasional).

The deceased, who was PAS Sungai Puteri division chief, had previously contested the same state seat in the 2018 general election. – Bernama, November 19, 2022.