BAGAN DATUK – Pakatan Harapan (PH) is confident of winning the Bagan Datuk parliamentary seat held by Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
PH chairman Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said the confidence in taking the BN stronghold brews from the fact that PH candidate Datuk Seri Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin had defeated former Melaka chief minister Tun Mohd Ali Mohd Rustam in the contest for the Hang Tuah Jaya parliamentary seat during the 2018 national polls.
“The confidence is not sky high (to defeat Zahid) in his own fort but if there are enough votes from the Malays, Chinese, and Indians – we can create history in Bagan Datuk,” Anwar said.
The PKR president, who is contesting the Tambun parliamentary seat, was speaking to voters in the presence of Shamsul during PH’s Tour of Hope rally at Arena Selekoh in Bagan Datuk, here today.
In the coming election, apart from the titanic battle between Shamsul Iskandar and Zahid – who has held the seat since 1995 – other challengers in Bagan Datuk are Perikatan Nasional’s Dr Muhammad Faiz Na’aman and independent candidate Mohamed Tawfik Ismail. – Bernama, November 14, 2022
