CHILLY WINDS BLOW INTO PELANGAI FOR ANWAR & ZAHID - BUT NOT TO WORRY, SAYS ANTHONY LOKE - DAP WILL ENSURE THE CHINESE 'TRANSFER' THEIR VOTES TO HELP UMNO-BN WIN ON SATURDAY - REALLY? BUT HOW WOULD ANTHONY KNOW?

KUALA LUMPUR (Politics Now!) - The Chinese not coming out to vote in Pelangai on Saturday? Not true! bristles DAP's Anthony Loke vehemently.

But how would Loke know?

Election fatigue is taking its toll and the citizenry is fed up. After pinning all their hopes on Malaysia being pulled back onto track, they get a 'talk a lot but no action' Prime Minister in Anwar Ibrahim and his 'scared of their own shadow' regime. 

His 'Madani" government is being hammered left and right on a daily basis b, BOy the Malay-centric PN-PAS opposition - whilst reform and election promises are being abandoned or trampled on by Little Napoleons from his PKR party. It has reached a point where his regime is now seen to be famous for 'bodek kaki' (sycophant) politics.

OBLIVIOUS OR IN DENIAL OR BODEK-KAKI POLITICS?  

Yet oblivious to as to how unpopular Anwar and the Pakatan Harapan coalition have become, Loke thinks his DAP still has the pulse of the Chinese community.

He said DAP grassroots members have been working hard to ensure voters  in the constituency, especially in Chinese-dominated Telemong and Kota Baru. go to the polls and ensure victory for the Umno-BN candidate. 

“On Saturday, we will make sure we transfer our votes to BN. With this, I am confident that we will help BN win with a comfortable majority,” Malaysiakini reported Loke as telling reporters after attending the Telemong lantern festival here last night.

Telemong is an area in the Pelangai constituency where the majority – about 4,000 people – are non-Malays. Overall, Pelangai is a Malay-majority seat and fell vacant after the Umno incumbent died in a sudden accident.

The by-election is a three-corner fight between Umno's Amizar Abu Adam, PAS' Kasim Samat and an independent candidate Haslihelmy DM Zulhasni. 

While Umno has the advantage of incumbency, chances are high PAS can sweep the seat right from under the noses of the indolent Anwar and shady Zahid Hamidi, the Umno president who was recently so controversially freed from unprecedented corruption charges that many pundits see Pelangai as a referendum on the Anwar regime's dubious handling of the discharge.

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