Extra week of campaigning would have stopped BN, says Kit Siang

 

DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang says the party will study why it lost in Yong Peng, Kukup, Paloh and Pekan Nenas.

JOHOR BAHRU: DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang says the Johor state elections results would have been different if parties had been given an extra week to campaign.

“Barisan Nasional (BN) will not have won if we had had an extra week of campaigning,” he told reporters at the Pakatan Harapan (PH) war room this evening.

Unofficial results show BN with 40 seats in the 56-seat state assembly, with 12 for Pakatan Harapan, three for Perikatan Nasional, and one for Muda. The opposition coalitions had previously held 27 and 12 seats respectively.

Lim said Johoreans had started to realise that they could not support kleptocratic leaders.

“The results were a reaffirmation that people do not easily succumb to negative propaganda towards PH. This also shows that people want to see changes in Johor and in Malaysia.”

He said PH would study the results further and “rebuild lost ground” especially in the four seats that DAP had failed to defend: Yong Peng, Kukup, Paloh and Pekan Nenas.

Lim congratulated state DAP chief Liew Chin Tong for his big win in the Perling state seat, which the party retained for a second term. - FMT