Supporters forming a colouful procession outside the Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi multipurpose hall.
WHOOPS, cries and chants pierced the quiet morning air at Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi multipurpose hall as processions of supporters accompanying the candidates for the Sepang parliamentary and state constituencies arrived to register their names at the nomination centre.
Attracting the attention of the newspeople who had been waiting at the entrance hall as early as 7.30am was a team of female officers from the police light strike force team.
Corporal Nor Zihan Amran (pic below), who unwittingly found herself the centre of attraction, refused to comment for security reasons but a police spokesman said the placing of female presence was a strategy the force has always found useful in tense situations.
The Pakatan Harapan candidates for Sepang were the first to arrive, led by its parliamentary candidate Mohamed Hanipa Maidin. Carrying a walking stick, Hanipa said he was not about to rest despite having suffered from a stroke in 2016.
"Politicians don't like to rest. We are always thinking of how to help people," he said.
Hanipa was accompanied by Sungai Pelek candidate, Ronnie Liu, who looked visibly moved by the show of support, Tanjung Sepat candidate Borhan Aman Shah and Selangor Pribumi Youth chief Adif Syan Abdullah, who is a first-time candidate.
The PAS procession came right after, marching in with its four candidates, Sabirin Marsono, Mohd Haslin Hassan, Yusmi Haniff Ariffin and Rohaya Mohd Shahir who will be contesting in Sepang, Tanjung Sepat, Dengkil and Sungai Pelek respectively.
Rohaya (pic below) is the only woman contesting in Sepang though she has been in the party since the 1990s.
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