Wan Fayhsal soundly defeated in race for Machang Bersatu chief’s post

 

Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal won the Machang parliamentary seat in the 2022 general election, where he contested under the PAS banner.

PETALING JAYA: 

Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal was soundly defeated in the race to become the head of Bersatu’s Machang division, despite representing the federal constituency in the Dewan Rakyat.

The Bersatu Supreme Council member only managed to garner 26 votes at the division’s election today, trailing far behind Kamaruddin Ab Kadir, who defended the post after winning 103 votes.

Malaysiakini quoted Amirul Fahmi Mazlan Kushairi, the secretary of Bersatu’s election committee, as confirming the result of the divisional polls.

Wan Fayhsal was formerly the head of Bersatu’s youth wing and was elected to the party’s 20-member Supreme Council during the party election last November.

A former senator, Wan Fayhsal is serving his first term as Machang MP. He won the Kelantan seat in the 2022 general election with a convincing majority of 10,154 votes over his closest rival, Kelantan Umno chief Ahmad Jazlan Yaakub.

He and other Bersatu candidates who were fielded in the PAS-led state of Kelantan had contested under the PAS banner.

Wan Fayhsal was previously deputy youth and sports minister in the Muhyiddin Yassin administration before becoming deputy unity minister in the Ismail Sabri Yaakob government. - FMT