PETALING JAYA: Wawasan secretary-general Saifuddin Abdullah says the party’s seat negotiations for the Nov 14 Melaka state election are being handled by the Perikatan Nasional leadership, which can exchange allocations for incumbent seats with Barisan Nasional if needed.
Saifuddin said PN leaders discussed seat allocations at the coalition's supreme council meeting last night.
He said PN and BN had agreed in principle that the incumbents would defend their seats. However, they could exchange incumbent seat allocations for certain reasons.
He was responding to a claim by former Umno leader Puad Zarkashi that BN’s announcement that it would contest the Sungai Udang seat in the Melaka election proved that it had rejected Wawasan as an electoral partner.
Puad also claimed that BN’s plan to nominate Rais Yasin for the seat, previously held by Wawasan’s Dr Aleef Yusof, also signalled that it would contest all of Wawasan’s 19 parliamentary seats in the next general election.
Following Saturday's announcement by BN on its 21 candidates for the Melaka polls, Aleef said BN had “bullied” PAS and PN, and urged them to consider running solo in the election.
Aleef had won the Sungai Udang seat for Bersatu in 2021 before moving to Wawasan on Oct 2 this year.