Zuraida: PBM plans to contest 14 seats in GE15

 

Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM) president-designate Zuraida Kamaruddin said the party plans to field candidates in 14 seats in the upcoming 15th general election (GE15).

She said this would comprise seven seats each in parliamentary and state constituencies.

At the same time, Zuraida said the party, which is aligned to BN, will not ask for more seats than they already have as they want to focus on their incumbent seats.

“We are experienced leaders, but the party is new. Now, we have a short time before facing the election. So we will focus only on the seats we already have.

“So seven state seats and seven parliamentary seats,” she said, as reported by the Malay Mail today.

PBM currently has three lawmakers in the Dewan Rakyat and five elected representatives in the state assemblies.

The three incumbent PBM parliamentarians are Zuraida (Ampang), Larry Sn’g (Julau) and Steven Choong (Tebrau).

Zuraida had held her Ampang seat for PKR since 2008 before joining Bersatu in 2020, which she abandoned in May this year by joining PBM.

Choong, meanwhile, broke MCA’s hold on Tebrau in 2018 and held the seat for PKR until February last year, when he quit and became an Independent MP before joining PBM later.

Sn’g won the Julau seat in 2018 as an independent before later joining PKR. He eventually quit becoming an independent MP again before joining PBM.

Meanwhile, of PBM’s five assemblypersons, three are in Perak, comprising Sivasubramaniam (Buntong), Paul Yong (Tronoh) and Leong Cheok Keng (Malim Nawar), and two in Selangor, being Haniza Mohamed Talha (Lembah Jaya) and Daroyah Alwi (Sementa).

Haniza and Daroyah won their seats on PKR’s ticket, while Leong, Sivasubramaniam and Yong did so on DAP’s ticket during the last election.

Zuraida did not elaborate on the remaining six seats PBM intends to run in GE15.

PBM has applied to join the BN, but the coalition said the application was still being reviewed. - Mkini