Analysts write off Gerakan as state polls near
Gerakan president Dominic Lau confirms that the party will contest 19 seats in Penang, eight in Selangor, six in Negri Sembilan and three in Kedah. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, July 12, 2023.
PERIKATAN Nasional’s component party Gerakan will be fighting a losing battle in the four states it has decided to contest in the state elections, political analysts said. Gerakan lost Penang in 2008 and the last time the party won seats was in the 2013 general election when it secured two state seats in Sabah and one in Johor. In 2014, Gerakan’s then president, Mah Siew Keong, defeated DAP’s Dyana Sofia in the Teluk Intan by-election.
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