03-31-2022, 08:27 PM
Rafizi: Pakatan, PKR need to mobilise fence-sitters and ‘average Joes’, core support lies with them
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 31 — The core movers and supporters of Pakatan Harapan (PH) and PKR are the fence-sitters and the “average Joe” who are not actively vested in politics, former PKR’s leader Rafizi Ramli said.
In a meeting with senior editors today, the former Pandan MP and once a trailblazing figure in Malaysian politics, said that it is crucial for them to “energise” the demographic in order to appeal to them or seek their voluntary manpower.
“I can’t speak for PKR or PH because I am really an outsider. It’s quite obvious, you know. But what we have learned from the last general election is that a lot of the goodwill for PH and PKR are actually not from the party members,” he said.
“Actually it has a lot of support from fence-sitters. You know by nature, fence-sitters are either middle-class or they are slightly more progressive or they are more urban. So they don’t love to be directly involved in politics, but they are very politically aware.
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In a meeting with senior editors today, the former Pandan MP and once a trailblazing figure in Malaysian politics, said that it is crucial for them to “energise” the demographic in order to appeal to them or seek their voluntary manpower.
“I can’t speak for PKR or PH because I am really an outsider. It’s quite obvious, you know. But what we have learned from the last general election is that a lot of the goodwill for PH and PKR are actually not from the party members,” he said.
“Actually it has a lot of support from fence-sitters. You know by nature, fence-sitters are either middle-class or they are slightly more progressive or they are more urban. So they don’t love to be directly involved in politics, but they are very politically aware.
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