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GUA MUSANG: Perikatan Nasional is banking on a former navy man to reclaim the Nenggiri state seat in Kelantan, in the first by-election triggered when seven Bersatu elected representatives went rogue and tested the limits of the anti-party hopping law.
Mohd Nassuruddin said voters had made the right decision by voting for Perikatan in the state polls last year, but its incumbent Mohd Azizi Abu Naim of Bersatu had betrayed the people’s mandate by backing the Federal Government. Bersatu since declared that all seven of them ceased to be party members and that according to the anti-party hopping law, their seats should be vacated.
“About 60% of the voters in Nenggiri are aged between 18 and 40, consisting mostly of youth,” he said, adding that despite being a state seat, Nenggiri is larger than Perlis.At a separate event in Gua Musang yesterday, Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said Barisan Nasional candidate Mohd Azmawi was fielded because he was an electable, acceptable, and approachable candidate.
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