A family affair as Mastura goes to vote

Also with her are Zahid's wife, her mother-in-law, and two sons as she contends to fill her late husband's seat.

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KUALA KANGSAR: Mastura Mohd Yazid, the Barisan Nasional candidate for the parliamentary by-election here, voted at the polling centre at Sekolah Kebangsaan Raja Perempuan Muzwin here.

Mastura, 55, arrived at the polling centre at 8.30am. She was accompanied by Hamidah Khamis, wife of Umno vice-president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, her mother-in-law, Rahmah Abdullah, and two sons, Wan Iskandar and Wan Muhammad Amar.

Mastura, attired in a black robe, lined up and chatted with other voters at the third stream and completed voting at 8.38am.

She is contending to fill the seat won by her late husband, Wan Mohammad Khair-il Anuar Wan Ahmad, in the 2013 general election. Wan Mohd Khair-il died last month in a helicopter crash in Sarawak.

The by-election is a four-cornered contest among Mastura, Dr Najihatussalehah Ahmad of PAS, Dr Ahmad Termizi Ramli of Amanah and Izat Bukhary Ismail Bukhary, an independent candidate.

The other three candidates are registered as voters in other constituencies.

A total of 23 polling centres, which will be open from 8am to 5pm, have been set up in the constituency which has 32,949 voters, 312 of whom are early voters and five, absentee (overseas) voters.

— BERNAMA