Report: Perikatan to name Azmin as ‘poster boy’ in Selangor poll, but faces resistance from PAS
Utusan Malaysia quoted an unnamed senior aide to Azmin saying the coalition wishes to have Azmin as its menteri besar candidate, but is facing opposition from its component PAS.
(MMO) – Perikatan Nasional (PN) is attempting to name former menteri besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali as its “poster boy” for the Selangor state election, according to a report today.
Utusan Malaysia quoted an unnamed senior aide to Azmin saying the coalition wishes to have Azmin as its menteri besar candidate, but is facing opposition from its component PAS.
Azmin, formerly PKR’s deputy president, was the Selangor menteri besar under the Pakatan Harapan (PH) state government from September 2014 to June 2018. He was later made the economic affairs minister in Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s administration.
However, Azmin left PKR in 2020 following a political crisis popularly dubbed as the “Sheraton Move” that saw the fall of the PH federal government.
The aide PN has still not revealed its Selangor menteri besar candidate due to the resistance against naming Azmin from the Islamist party.
“That’s why until today, we have not revealed [the Selangor menteri besar candidate] to the public because we don’t want it to be used as a weapon by our opponents,” said the aide.
Selangor PAS is led by Sijangkang assemblyman Datuk Ahmad Yunus Hairi.
