THE 14-day campaign for the 15th General Election (GE15) officially started today with 945 hopeful candidates contesting for 222 parliamentary seats nationwide.
This will be one of the hottest general elections since we gained independence in 1957, with three large coalitions, Barisan Nasional, Perikatan Nasional and Pakatan Harapan, all trying to wrest enough power to get back into governing the country for the next five years.
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