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GE15: Pakatan eyes winning 22 Johor seats in bid to retake Putrajaya

Coalition’s state chief Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub confident it can improve on 18 taken in GE14

Updated 3 years ago · Published on 03 Nov 2022 10:24PM

GE15: Pakatan eyes winning 22 Johor seats in bid to retake Putrajaya
Johor Pakatan Harapan chairman Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub is confident that the coalition could wrest Pengerang, Pontian, Tenggara, and Sembrong from Barisan Nasional in the coming general election. – The Vibes file pic, November 3, 2022

JOHOR BARU – Pakatan Harapan (PH) is aiming to win 22 of the 26 parliamentary seats in Johor in the coming general election (GE15).

Johor PH chairman Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub said the coalition was confident that the target could be achieved based on its momentum and excellent performance in GE14 – where PH managed to capture 18 seats that were Barisan Nasional strongholds.

He also expressed confidence that PH could wrest Pengerang, Pontian, Tenggara, and Sembrong.

“We have prepared the best line-up (of candidates), all of whom have been screened for GE15, not just to defend the 18 seats won in GE14 but also (other) seats we believe that we have the potential (to win).

“InsyaAllah, Johor will be a state contributing to PH’s victory to establish a new government at the federal level,” he said at a media conference to introduce Johor PH’s candidates at a hotel here today. 

On the Tg Piai seat, which has been given to Muda, as well as the issue of Pontian being contested by DAP instead of PKR, Salahuddin – who will be defending the Pulai parliamentary seat – and Johor PH deputy chairman Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh both said the matter has been resolved.

“There is no more dispute. That is the discipline shown in PH, we can discuss.

“When it is decided, we comply even if there is dissatisfaction but that is how our discipline works. The important thing is that one enemy must be defeated,” said Salahuddin. – Bernama, November 3, 2022

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