Amanah wants 24 seats in Selangor local council

(Malay Mail Online) – Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) hopes to have at least two representatives in each of Selangor’s 12 local councils and will submit its list of candidates to the state mentri besar’s office today.

The new party has formed a pact with DAP and PKR at the federal level after breaking away from PAS, but currently holds no seats at the local government level.

“We are asking for at least two Amanah members to be placed in each of the 12 local councils.

“We want a pair in each local councils. The number would make up less than 10 per cent of the total 288 local councillors and the other parties can have 30 per cent of the quota each,” state Amanah chairman Izham Hashim was quoted as saying by local daily New Straits Times today.

Izham was also quoted as saying that Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Azmin Ali had agreed to include Amanah members in the local councillor’s list.

He also pointed that the current list included incumbents, including himself, adding that they should be given the position for proven track records.

Amanah wants the Selangor government to appoint some of its party members as local councillors, believing the state administration should take into consideration the fact that the party holds three of the four MP seats in the state.

It is understood that PKR, DAP and PAS had just recently agreed to revise the number of local council seats allocated for each party, whereby PKR had agreed to let go of 17 seats.

There are currently 288 local council seats with 120 seats given to PKR, 92 for DAP, 67 for PAS, and nine for the Orang Besar Daerah. Under the revised allocation, PKR would get 103 seats, 98 for DAP and 78 for PAS.