PRK Kinabatangan, Lamag pada 24 Januari

PRK bagi kerusi Parlimen Kinabatangan dan DUN Lamag di Sabah akan diadakan pada 24 Jan, umum Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) semalam.

Dalam satu sidang media di ibu pejabat SPR, Pengerusinya Ramlan Harun berkata hari penamaan calon ditetapkan pada 10 Jan dan pengundian awal pada 20 Jan.

Pilihan raya itu diadakan susulan kematian ketua Umno Sabah Bung Moktar Radin pada 5 Dis, kurang seminggu selepas beliau dipilih semula untuk penggal kedua sebagai Adun Lamag.

Ahli politik berusia 66 tahun itu mempertahankan kerusi DUN berkenaan dengan majoriti tipis hanya 153 undi dalam PRN Sabah bulan lalu.

Bekas timbalan ketua menteri Sabah itu juga merupakan Ahli Parlimen Kinabatangan selama enam penggal.

Pada PRU 2022, Bung mengekalkan kerusi Parlimen tersebut dengan majoriti selesa 4,330 undi.

Minggu lalu, Timbalan Presiden PAS Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man berkata Perikatan Nasional telah memutuskan untuk tidak bertanding dalam PRK Kinabatangan dan Lamag.

 

Kinabatangan, Lamag by-elections on Jan 24

THE by-elections for the Kinabatangan parliamentary seat and Lamag state seat in Sabah will be held on Jan 24 next year, the Election Commission (EC) announced Tuesday.

In a press conference at the commission’s headquarters, EC chairman Ramlan Harun said nominations would be held on Jan 10 and early voting on Jan 20.

A total of 48,722 voters, including 196 policemen, are eligible to cast their ballots in the two by-elections.

The by-elections will cost the EC some RM10 million.

They follow the death of Sabah Umno chief Bung Moktar Radin on Dec 5, less than a week after being elected to a second term as Lamag assemblyman.

The 66-year-old defended his state seat with a slim majority of just 153 votes in the Sabah state election last month.

The former Sabah deputy chief minister had also been the Kinabatangan MP for six terms. In the 2022 general election, he retained the parliamentary seat with a solid 4,330-vote majority.

Last week, PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said Perikatan Nasional had decided not to contest the Kinabatangan and Lamag by-elections.

 

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