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Kelantan Umno targeting nine parliamentary, 35 state seats in GE15

Target not impossible considering success in GE11, says Datuk Ahmad Jazlan Yaakub

Updated 4 years ago · Published on 31 Aug 2022 9:39PM

Kelantan Umno targeting nine parliamentary, 35 state seats in GE15
Datuk Ahmad Jazlan Yaakub says Umno is currently determining the list of potential candidates for GE15 before handing it over to party president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. – The Vibes file pic, August 31, 2022

PASIR MAS – Kelantan Umno is targeting to win nine parliamentary seats and 35 state assembly seats in the upcoming 15th general election (GE15), said Kelantan Umno liaison committee chairman Datuk Ahmad Jazlan Yaakub.

However, he refused to comment further on the seats in question.

“There is no need for me to mention the areas that we will be contesting in, and if someone says that Kelantan Umno has big ambitions, indeed, we need to have big aspirations in a battle. God willing, we will achieve the target (of winning the contested seats).

"For the parliamentary seats, the target we have set is not impossible, considering the fact that we won nine parliamentary seats in GE11, which was in 2004,” he said after launching the Kelantan Umno veterans machinery for GE15 and the “Keluargaku Pengundi Barisan Nasional”’ campaign strategy at Kolej Kemahiran Tinggi Mara, Lubok Jong, Rantau Panjang, near here today.

Jazlan, who is also Machang MP, said the state Umno was currently determining the list of potential candidates for GE15 before handing it over to party president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. 

“If possible, we want to highlight as many new faces as possible, while not marginalising the existing leadership and old faces, because this combination is very important,” he said.

Kelantan has 14 parliamentary seats and 45 state assembly seats. In GE14, Kelantan BN won five parliamentary seats and eight state seats. – Bernama, August 31, 2022

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