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PAS also to name by-election candidate tomorrow

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KUALA TERENGGANU, July 8  – PAS will also announce its candidate tomorrow for the Kuala Besut state by-election, polling for which is on July 24.

Its by-election director, Satiful Bahri Mamat, said today the party’s central committee would select the candidate tonight in Kuala Lumpur from a list submitted by Terengganu PAS.

Hadi AwangThe candidate would be announced by PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang tomorrow in Kampung Nail, Kuala Besut, he told Bernama.

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Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Barisan Nasional chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is scheduled to announce the BN candidate tomorrow.

Nomination for the by-election is on Friday, July 12.

The by-election has been necessitated by the death of assemblyman Dr A. Rahman Mokhtar of the BN of lung cancer on June 26.

He had won the seat with a 2,434 majority by beating Napisah Ismail of PAS in the general election on May 5.

Kuala Besut has 17,683 voters.

– BERNAMA