PAS needs Samsuri’s moderate image in parliament, say analysts

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PETALING JAYA: PAS should field Terengganu menteri besar Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar for the Kemaman parliamentary by-election as the party needs the voice of a technocrat in the Dewan Rakyat, an analyst said.

Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid of Universiti Sains Malaysia said Samsuri’s academic background would allow PAS to project a non-religious perspective in Parliament.

The political scientist also said election to a federal seat would prepare the PAS vice-president for service at federal level should the party form a government in the future.

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