EIGHT Pakatan Harapan (PH) elected representatives who won the contest for state seats in the 15th general election have signed a statutory declaration (SD) supporting state Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail as Pahang menteri besar.

This was confirmed by Sim Chon Siang, who won the Teruntum state seat.

He said the signing of the SD was held at a lawyer’s office in Temerloh today.

Sim said other elected representatives who were with him to sign the SD were Chan Chun Kuang (Semambu), Tengku Zulpuri Shah Raja Puji (Tras), Woo Chee Wan (Mentakab) and Thomas Su Keong Siong (Ketari). 

Three others – Ho Chi Yang (Tanah Rata), Leong Yu Man (Triang) and Lee Chin Chen (Bilut) – were also expected to do the same today, he said.

“We are made to understand that discussions with Pahang BN on the formation of the state government is still going on,” he said when contacted.

Meanwhile, Pahang PAS commissioner Rosli Abdul Jabar, when contacted, said no decision had yet to be reached between Pahang Perikatan Nasional (PN) and the state BN on the formation of the state government.

Pahang PN was represented by PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man at the discussion.

Until now, Wan Rosdy has yet to release any statement regarding the discussion on the formation of the state government.

No party contesting in the recent polls managed to obtain a simple majority to form the Pahang government, which has resulted in a hung state assembly.

PN secured 17 seats, followed by BN with 16 seats and PH with eight seats.

There are 42 seats in the Pahang assembly, but polling for the Tioman seat will be held on December 7, following the death of PN candidate Md Yunus Ramli, 61, at 3.30am on the polling day last Saturday, believed to be due to a heart attack. – Bernama, November 23, 2022.