
Puad Zarkashi said the two assemblymen who recently quit Bersatu had won in the previous general election because of Chinese support.
Larkin assemblyman Izhar Ahmad left the party yesterday, a few days after the resignation of former Puteri Wangsa assemblyman Mazlan Bujang.
Puad predicted that many more would leave Bersatu.
Puad said the Chinese made up 60% of voters in Puteri Wangsa. “This time round, they are not confident that Chinese voters will back Bersatu,” he said in a Facebook post.
He speculated that a similar lack of support from the Chinese community might have caused Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin not to seek re-election in the Gambir seat in the coming Johor state elections.
“So are Bersatu and PN still relevant?” he said in response to a claim by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang that PN’s struggle was not only for the unification of the ummah (the Muslim community) but also for Malaysia’s plural society.
PAS announced yesterday that it would contest under the PN banner in the Johor state elections, alongside Bersatu.
Hadi had also said that Barisan Nasional was no longer relevant. However, Puad countered by citing BN’s decisive victory in the Melaka state elections, at which voters returned two MCA members and an MIC member to the state assembly.
Puad said Bersatu was backed by “political frogs” many of whom had broken legs, in what appeared to be a response to Hadi’s labelling of Umno as “a duck with broken legs”.
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