{"id":898,"date":"2009-09-30T03:49:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T19:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2009\/09\/negri-pas-chief-zulkefli-to-contest-in-bagan-pinang\/"},"modified":"2009-09-30T03:49:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T19:49:16","slug":"negri-pas-chief-zulkefli-to-contest-in-bagan-pinang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/negri-pas-chief-zulkefli-to-contest-in-bagan-pinang\/","title":{"rendered":"Negri PAS chief Zulkefli to contest in Bagan Pinang"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Zulkefli Omar has contested and lost three times. \u2013 Picture by Jack Ooi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

By Adib Zalkapli<\/address>\n

PORT DICKSON, Sept 29 \u2014 PAS today named its Negri Sembilan chief Zulkefly Omar as the candidate for the Bagan Pinang by-election.<\/p>\n

Tha announcement was made at a public rally in the Chinese-dominated Batu 9 town near here by PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang.<\/p>\n

“The candidate represents all Malaysians and the people of Bagan Pinang,” Hadi told the multi-racial crowd.<\/p>\n

Zulkefly, 45, a communication graduate, had contested and lost three times.<\/p>\n

During the last year’s general election he lost Lenggeng state seat in Kuala Pilah by some 1,000 votes.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters after the announcement, Hadi said he is confident of PAS’s chances of winning the seat.<\/p>\n

“We have won seven out of eight by-elections, we are confident,” said Hadi.<\/p>\n

“He is our best candidate \u2014 young and educated,” he added.<\/p>\n

Hadi dismissed the suggestion that the infighting within Pakatan Rakyat in Selangor will affect the coalition’s chances of winning the seat.<\/p>\n

During the last general election PAS lost 12 out of 13 state constituencies it contested in Negri Sembilan.<\/p>\n

The Islamist party only won the Paroi seat, situated within the Rembau parliamentary constituency.<\/p>\n

To a question on the Barisan Nasional’s (BN) decision to field Tan Sri Mohd Isa Abdul Samad as the Bagan Pinang candidate, Zulkefly said he will let the people decide on the former Negri Sembilan mentri besar’s ability to represent them.<\/p>\n

“We contested to fulfil the people’s wish, not for other reasons,” said Zulkefly.<\/p>\n

The Bagan Pinang by-election was made necessary following the death of BN\u2019s Azman Mohammad Noor on Sept 4.<\/p>\n

In March last year, Azman defeated Ramli Ismail of PAS by some 2,000 votes.<\/p>\n

BN is currently ruling the state with a simple majority after winning only 21 of the 36 state constituencies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zulkefli Omar has contested and lost three times. \u2013 Picture by Jack Ooi By Adib Zalkapli PORT DICKSON, Sept 29 \u2014 PAS today named its Negri Sembilan chief Zulkefly Omar as the candidate for the Bagan Pinang by-election. Tha announcement was made at a public rally in the Chinese-dominated Batu 9 town near here by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}