Ousted Perak menteri besar Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin is one of the rare PAS leaders who enjoy broad support from the non-Malay community.
For the Bukit Gantang by-election, where Mohd Nizar is the PAS candidate, pundits believe that his popularity should translate to votes, and rake in the lion’s share of the 14,955 Chinese and 5,526 Indian Malaysian votes.
Sources in PAS and PKR - the two Pakatan Rakyat coalition members tasked with campaigning for non-Malay votes - however are not entirely confident that victory is already in the bag in this Barisan Nasional stronghold.
In the 2008 general election, the late Roslan Shahrom of PAS scored an upset against Umno heavyweight Abdul Azim Zabidi with a majority of 1,566 votes.
Sources in PAS and PKR - the two Pakatan Rakyat coalition members tasked with campaigning for non-Malay votes - however are not entirely confident that victory is already in the bag in this Barisan Nasional stronghold.
In the 2008 general election, the late Roslan Shahrom of PAS scored an upset against Umno heavyweight Abdul Azim Zabidi with a majority of 1,566 votes.
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