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BN confident of wresting 20 Opposition seats
Posted by Kit in Elections, Pakatan Rakyat on Wednesday, 26 December 2012
The Malaysian Insider
Dec 24, 2012
MALACCA, Dec 24 β Barisan Nasional (BN) is capable of wresting back 20 opposition-held seats to help secure two-thirds majority in the coming 13th general election, says Umno information chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan.
He is confident that BN can retain the 140 parliamentary seats it won and capture five of 23 seats held by PAS, five of 29 held by DAP and 10 of the 31 Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) seats.
He said the confidence was based on various factors including the problems faced by the opposition in several seats that it had won.
βItβs logical because, for example, seven of the PKR seats are already problematic for the opposition as six as the incumbents left the party to become independents while it lost the Hulu Selangor seat.β Read the rest of this entry »