PKR ‘traitors’ will lose in polls, say analysts
Mohamed Azmin Ali , once PKR deputy president and said to be the mastermind of the Sheraton Move, is defending his Gombak parliamentary seat on the Perikatan Nasional ticket in the November 19 general election. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Afif Abd Halim, November 6, 2022.
While PKR is going all out to “teach” these traitors a lesson by winning back the seats, the party’s optimism is shared by analysts, who said they will find it difficult to win. Azmin has served as Gombak MP for three terms, contesting under the PKR banner. In 2018, he won the seat with a 48,721-vote majority.
In this election, Kamarudin is in a tough battle where he faces PKR adviser and wife of party president Anwar Ibrahim, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, and BN-MCA’s Chew Yin Kee.Mansor, once served as a political secretary to Anwar before contesting and winning the Nibong Tebal parliamentary seat in the 2013 general election and again, in 2018.He then ditched PKR to join Bersatu in 2020.
In 2018, Ali won by 11,848-vote margin in a straight fight against Progressive Democratic Party’s Subeng Mula, who represented Barisan Nasional. Willie quit PKR and joined Bersatu after the collapse of the PH government in 2020, but applied to join Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu earlier this year and was accepted.
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