IN Kelantan, where 94% of the population are Malays, race was not the issue, although religion might well have been. When all the votes were recounted, PAS formed the state government, if by a squeak. And that precious three-seat margin could have been due to the votes of Kelantanese youths.
Whither Kelantan goes in the decades ahead rests in the loyalties of its young voters – first-time voters and those below 30 – to Islam and the PAS leadership and their perceptions of job opportunities at home.
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