Barisan Nasional, PAS and Parti Amanah Negara will contest
the Sungai Besar parliamentary by-election.
The candidates are Budiman Mohd Zohdi (BN), Dr Abdul Rani
Osman (PAS) and Azhar Abdul Shukur (Amanah). They filed their nomination papers
this morning.
Budiman is state assemblyman for Sungai Panjang.
He was accompanied by Umno vice-president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
in a procession to the nomination centre, marching with a group of supporters
from Dataran Tonggak 10, about 500 metres away.
MCA president Liow Tiong Lai, BN Sungai Besar by-election
director Noh Omar and BN secretary-general Tengku Adnan Mansor were among them.
The PAS candidate, Dr Abdul Rani, is the state assemblyman
for Meru. He was accompanied to the centre by Selangor PAS commissioner Iskandar
Abdul Samad and PAS election director Mustafa Ali.
Azhar of Amanah was accompanied by PKR president Dr Wan
Azizah Wan Ismail, Selangor Menteri Besar Mohamed Azmin Ali, DAP advisor Lim
Kit Siang and Amanah leaders led by president Mohamad Sabu.
Meanwhile, at the Kuala Kangsar parliamentary by-election
is a four-cornered contest involving Barisan Nasional, PAS, Parti Amanah Negara
and an Independent candidate.
They are Datin Mastura Mohd Yazid of BN, Perak PAS Women's
chief Dr Najihatussalehah Ahmad, Kuala Kangsar Amanah vice-chief Prof Dr Ahmad
Termizi Ramli and Independent candidate Izat Bukhary Ismail Bukhary.
Returning officer Mior Muhammad Jamil Mior Zakaria announced
their names after the close of nomination at Dewan Jubli Perak here.
The by-election was brought about by the death of the MP,
Noriah Kasnon and Datuk Wan Mohammad Khair-il Anuar Wan Ahmad, in a helicopter
crash in Sarawak on May 5. They had been
elected to Parliament in 2013 for Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar constituency
respectively.
Polling will be held on June 18.
Source - Bernama
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