PN to contest more than 4 seats in Melaka polls

 Perikatan Nasional deputy chairman Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man says the seats will be finalised after discussions with Umno.

Perikatan Nasional deputy chairman Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man had said previously that PN and PAS were expected to contest seven to 10 seats in the Nov 14 Melaka polls.

KUALA LUMPUR:

Perikatan Nasional will contest more than four seats in the coming Melaka state election, its deputy chairman, Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man, said.

Tuan Ibrahim, however, did not go into detail.

“It will be finalised in the near future after discussions with Umno,” he told reporters after attending Parliament for the tabling of the 2027 budget today.

Last month, Tuan Ibrahim said PN and PAS were expected to contest seven to 10 seats in the Nov 14 polls.

He also said that PN and Umno had discussed seat allocations and drawn up a basic framework for the election.

PN, through Bersatu, won two of the 28 seats it vied for in the 2021 election.

PAS, which failed to win in any of the eight seats it contested, had cut ties with Bersatu in June.

On Monday, Melaka Bersatu said it was determined to defend Bemban and Sungai Udang, which it won in the previous polls, although both incumbents have since left the party for Wawasan, which was admitted as a PN component in July.

Melaka Bersatu information chief Hishamuddin Abdul Karim also said the party is expected to contest up to 10 of Melaka’s 28 state seats.

Tuan Ibrahim also denied any knowledge of an agreement between Selangor Bersatu assemblymen and the menteri besar.

“We (PN) are still the opposition (in the state). Maybe there was a misunderstanding,” he said.

Yesterday, menteri besar Amirudin Shari said the Bersatu assemblymen will sign a pact similar to the 2021 confidence and supply agreement between former prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and the opposition with the state government before the state budget is tabled.

Amirudin said the state government and the opposition were still finalising the terms of the agreement.

Bersatu assemblyman Nurul Syazwani Noh also said she was in the dark about the party’s plans to ink such an agreement.

Tuan Ibrahim said such an agreement would be unfair to the voters who had backed PN in the last state election. - FMT