‘PN tsunami’ a fleeting trend, says Kedah PH information chief

 

Perikatan Nasional has a total of 21 seats in Kedah.

PETALING JAYA: A Pakatan Harapan leader is confident the coalition can wrest Kedah from PAS in the next state polls. He dismissed the “Perikatan Nasional tsunami” as nothing more than a fleeting trend.

Kedah PH information and communications director Ismail Salleh said the current PN wave was riding on racial and religious sentiments.

Many had realised that PN played the racial and religious card to woo voters, he said, adding that such tactics were not beneficial when it came to developing the country.

“Which is why they (the voters) are having a change of heart,” he said in a statement.

The Pengkalan Kundor assemblyman also said the progress made under Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government had increased their chances of winning Kedah.

The “PN tsunami” would be quelled by the PH and Barisan Nasional partnership, he said. BN is part of the current federal administration.

Following the decision of PKR’s Johari Abdul to vacate the Gurun state seat, PH now has nine seats in the 36-seat Kedah state assembly. PAS has 15 seats, Bersatu 6, and Umno and Pejuang have two each. - FMT