PAS Accepts Defeat But Questions Postal Votes System

PAS has accepted its defeat in the Bagan Pinang state by-election but has named postal votes as a factor for its failure to wrest away the Barisan Nasional (BN) stronghold.

PAS vice-president and the party’s Bagan Pinang election director, Salahuddin Ayub, claimed that the party’s loss was caused by the “fear-factor” of gangsterism that made it difficult for the party to reach 13,664 voters in the area.

“PAS accepts the decision but remains committed to striving for a more transparent postal vote system,” he told reporters after the result was announced that BN’s Tan Sri Mohd Isa Samad had defeated PAS’ Zulkefly Omar by a majority of 5,435 votes.

Isa, the former Negeri Sembilan Menteri Besar garnered 8,013 votes while Zulkefly, who is the state PAS commissioner had 2,578 votes.
For postal votes, BN had 3,521 votes while PAS had 601 votes from the total postal votes of 4,604 made up of 4,571 military votes and the rest from the police.


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Wake up PAS...it's not everyday these BN fellas drop dead, You fellas blew a chance to make a point. You knew very well that our soldier boys and estate colleagues will sell the country for RM200...so no point saying you tak tau...

The infighting in PR is not doing any good to the opposition. It certainly affected this by election result, but by this much of votes, its really give us a reality check of the power of the postal votes.

PR should have a realtiy check, and devise a plan to take on the next by-election if any, and also the next GE. If they can't come up with a good plan and also a common agreed principle, they will be really sorry to lose it all.