Nurul Izzah who was met while campaigning for Amanah candidate at Sungai Besar main market here today, has admitted it was not going to be easy to win in the three-corner fight and Pakatan Harapan machinery would have to work hard to influence voters in the area. “We must understand that it is difficult for a new political party to penetrate the market because the Malaysian political system is based on first-past-the-post (FPTP) not on a system of proportional representation and on top of that the mainstream media is not helping. “Due to that, apart from selecting a local candidate, we have to work very hard and wear the PAN shirts to introduce the candidate’s logo.
The FPTP system which has been used in the country since the first elections in 1959 recognises the winning candidate as the candidate who gets the most votes, even by only one vote. Proportional representation on the other hand is an electoral system in which parties gain seats in proportion to the number of votes cast for them as practiced widely in most European countries.
According to Nurul Izzah, Pakatan Harapan would be more sensitive in the campaign during this fasting month especially after its DAP ally put up the provocative billboards around Sekinchan town
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