PERIKATAN Nasional (PN) is confident they will be able to defend the Nenggiri seat and win with a 2,000-vote majority, Free Malaysia Today reported.
PN election director Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor said they have intensified campaigning in Orang Asli areas.
The Kedah Menteri Besar said the reception for PN candidate Rizwadi Ismail was welcoming.
"I am confident we will achieve a greater victory than in the previous state election, given the reception.
"I am sure the majority won’t be less than 2,000," he said after a meet-and-greet event with voters at Renok Baru today.
The Nenggiri seat was declared vacant by the Kelantan assembly speaker following a notice from Bersatu that Azizi Abu Naim had ceased to be a member of the party.
BN had won the Nenggiri seat in four consecutive elections since 2004 before losing it to PN in last year’s state election, when Azizi defeated Umno’s Ab Aziz Yusoff with a majority of 810 votes.
Sanusi also said PN are working hard to entice the Orang Asli.
“We shouldn’t underestimate the over-2,000 Orang Asli voters. We will organise our machinery to meet them. Distance is no longer a barrier today as we have various ways of communicating our message." – August 4, 2024.
