Three more MPs expected to join PBM before GE15 - Zuraida

 

Three more MPS are expected to join Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM) before the 15th general election, said its president-designate Zuraida Kamaruddin.

This would bring the total to 14 incumbent MPs and assemblypersons in the party before GE15, she said.

"God willing, we will have incumbents contesting in seven parliamentary seats. We now have four MPs and three more are expected to join the party," she said as quoted by The Star at the PBM Johor headquarters today.

The plantation industries and commodities minister added that five incumbents would contest in state constituencies, with three in Perak and two in Selangor.

The Ampang MP said two more assemblypersons are also expected to join.

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

The three incumbent PBM parliamentarians are Zuraida (Ampang), Larry Sng (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 to join 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.

Sng won the Julau seat in 2018 as an independent before later joining PKR. He eventually quit PKR to be an independent MP again before joining PBM.

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

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

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