GE15: Zahid faces three others, including Tawfik Ismail, in defending Bagan Datuk seat


PETALING JAYA: Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is in a four-cornered fight to defend the Bagan Datuk parliamentary seat in the 15th General Election (GE15).

The former deputy prime minister will face Dr Muhammad Faiz Na’aman of Perikatan Nasional, Datuk Seri Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin (Pakatan Harapan) and also Independent Tawfik Ismail.

This will be Ahmad Zahid’s seventh polls outing.

He first won the Bagan Datuk seat in the 1995 national polls.

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