Low or high turnout?


Enthusiastic: Pakatan and Perikatan supporters (below) turned out in force to accompany their respective party’s candidates on nomination day for the two Johor by-elections. But it’s the number of voters who turn up at the ballot boxes next month that is the important figure. — Bernama

POLLING day for the Pulai parliamentary seat by-election is on Sept 9, but on paper, Pakatan Harapan has already won.

The Johor constituency has the demographics that the Pakatan Harapan-Barisan Nasional coalition led by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim thrives on.

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