PAS may help BN in Sungai Kandis


(MMO) – PAS could campaign for the rival Barisan Nasional in the three-cornered contest for Sungai Kandis if both parties agree to collaborate at the machinery level, said candidate Datuk Lokman Adam.

Lokman said there were already discussions at the divisional level and that he expects the Islamist party to start assisting his Umno party’s election machinery some time this week.

“I have spoken to some PAS leaders and chances are there for them to help us but I am speaking with Umno leaders and PAS’s division chiefs first.

“If all goes well, by this week we can see PAS helping us,” he told reporters at one of his walkabout programme.

The Umno supreme council member is facing PKR’s Mohd Zawawi Ahmad Mughni and independent candidate K. Murthy in the race for the state seat.

PAS previously expressed intentions to contest the seat, but pulled out when Umno announced that it was fielding a candidate.

The seat fell vacant following the death of its assemblyman Mat Shuhaimi Shafiei from PKR on July 2 after battling lymphatic cancer.

The Sungai Kandis constituency has 51,230 registered voters comprising 51,217 ordinary voters and 13 overseas voters.

Polling for the by-election is set on August 4.

 



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