KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s opposition alliance Perikatan Nasional retained its state assembly seat in a Penang by-election on July 6 with a comfortable victory, reflecting growing unhappiness with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s ruling coalition and its waning support among the Malay majority.
Mr Abidin Ismail, 56, from Parti Islam SeMalaysia , one of the members of the Perikatan Nasional alliance, won the Sungai Bakap seat with 14,489 votes, or about 58.6 per cent of the valid votes.
While Datuk Seri Anwar’s PH coalition failed to reclaim the seat, which it had held for three consecutive terms before the 2023 election, this will not have any impact on the 40-seat Penang state assembly where it controls a comfortable two-thirds majority. Political analysts say that PN’s victory was not unexpected as the voter sentiment in mainland Penang, especially among the Malay electorate, would not have shifted much within less than a year of the previous state poll.
In Sungai Bakap, 59.4 per cent of the voters are Malay, 22.5 per cent Chinese and 17.4 per cent Indian.Mr Abidin had expressed confidence in early July of gaining votes not only from the Malay community, but from other races as well.
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