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Pakatan insiders admit the division of state and national elections may work against him

Abdullah Hakim

October 12, 2022

State and National Elections: Pakatan Harapan (PH) may be at a disadvantage if it chooses to hold state and national elections separately in Penang, Selangor and Negeri Sembilan which it controls, insiders admit. Some unnamed PH leaders told The Star that holding state elections after the 15th general election could even cause the coalition to lose the three states because the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition would be able to concentrate its powerful machinery instead of spreading it thinly.