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Eyes wide open into GE15, Rafizi urges Pakatan as warning signs emerge

GEORGE TOWN – Pakatan Harapan (PH) must be realistic about its prospects in the next general election even if it is doomed, as there are indications that the pact will struggle due to an apparent pendulum swing of electoral support towards Umno, says PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli.

After four consecutive losses in the state elections of Sabah, Melaka, Sarawak, and Johor, since the general election of 2018, PH went into the next national polls without the momentum of popularity it had benefited from since 2008 – which carried on during the 2013 and 2018 general elections.

“I am not contesting as a defeatist, but I am carrying a message as a realist. We may be at our weakest ebb now, and we must know why so that we can remedy our issues,” he said.

In such circumstances, Rafizi has an interim forecast that PH components can hopefully win up to 80 (out of the 222) parliamentary seats despite the odds stacked against them.

“But we need to be prepared now in the next four to five months,” said Rafizi at a gathering organised by PKR’s Bayan Baru division here last night ahead of party elections from May 13 to 22.

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