Rejection check: Steven Choong tests waters with Puteri Wangsa race

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JOHOR BARU – Johor Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM) chief Steven Choong is contesting the Puteri Wangsa seat to gauge the support of voters after his exit from PKR last year. 

The Tebrau MP won the federal seat under a PKR ticket during the 2018 general elections with a whopping 62% of the votes.

However, on February 28 last year, Choong and Julau MP Larry Sng defected from PKR, becoming independent parliamentarians pledging support for then prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

This time, during the upcoming Johor polls on March 12, Choong will be testing the waters in Puteri Wangsa, a state seat in the federal constituency of Tebrau.

“I want to see if the voters really reject me or not,” Choong told The Vibes at Lotus Hypermarket in Tebrau.

He said that after his defection from PKR, it took six months for voters to start trusting him again.

Of course, he said, there are still a minority of “die-hard Pakatan Harapan (PH)” supporters who will not even want to take his campaign flyers now.

But this is not a novel situation for Choong, who points out the same thing happened among Barisan Nasional (BN) supporters when he campaigned in 2013 for PKR.

“If you want to be in politics, you have to accept that you can’t please everyone. In politics, you can’t feel hurt when constituents don’t want to accept your flyers, for example,” he said.

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