PM Anwar’s coalition wins with comfortable margin in Selangor’s state by-election

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Ms Pang Sock Tao, 31, doused expectations by PH critics that the Kuala Kubu Baharu seat would be won by a small margin.

Ms Pang Sock Tao from the Democratic Action Party, one of the four members of the Pakatan Harapan alliance, won the Kuala Kubu Baharu by-election.

KKB, as it is known, is located about an hour’s drive north of Kuala Lumpur. The vote was called after the three-term incumbent, Ms Lee Kee Hiong of the DAP, died of ovarian cancer on March 21. According to this narrative, both ethnic Chinese and Indian voters are starting to have doubts about Mr Anwar’s so-called unity government , following a raft of controversies. This included petrol bomb attacks egged on by a Malay leader on a Chinese-owned supermarket, and ex-premier Najib Razak getting a big discount on his jail sentence for corruption.

“Many had expected reduced a majority outcome for PH, but this a validation that their traditional vote base is still intact. However, by-elections in Malaysia are poor predictive tools for national political dynamics and general election.” said Mr. Amir Fareed Rahim, strategy director at KRA Group, a political risk consultancy.

 

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