Maybe I'll contest Pagoh, Anwar quips

 

PKR president Anwar Ibrahim today joked that he might consider facing off with Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin for the Pagoh parliamentary seat.

He said this was one of 15 constituencies where the local PKR divisions had extended him an invitation to be their MP.

"I have to weigh the 15, including Pagoh," he told reporters in Permatang Pauh, Penang today.

He said this when asked whether he would return to defend Permatang Pauh in the next general election.

Anwar had been a six-term Permatang Pauh MP.

However, in 2018, when he was behind bars, his daughter Nurul Izzah contested the seat instead.

After being freed from incarceration, Anwar then took over the Port Dickson parliamentary seat through a by-election.

Muhyiddin has held the Pagoh seat in Johor for eight terms now.

In 2018, in a three-cornered fight against Umno and PAS, the Bersatu president won the seat with 55.21 percent of the vote.

In that election, non-Malay voters accounted for 34 percent of eligible voters. - Mkini