On final night before Johor polls, parties make last appeal to voters
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Opposition parties did not relent and held eleventh-hour whirlwind ceramahs around Johor up to midnight despite
Other party leaders spotted were DAP’s Anthony Loke and Tony Pua, and PKR’s Saifuddin Nasution and Fahmi Fadzil.
They spoke in Perling, Kota Iskandar and Bukit Batu. More ceramahs were held in Skudai, Larkin and Bentayan.
PH continued to highlight BN’s track record of corruption and abuse of power and Guan Eng made a last-minute pitch to voters in Perling.
“They accuse PH of not living up to their promises and while it’s true that we did not abolish toll for the North-South Highway, we were able to reduce the charges by 18% and have stopped further toll hikes.”
Lim, who was the former finance minister, said that PH would have realised their promise to abolish the toll on the North-South Highway if it had governed a full term instead of 22 months.
While PH held simultaneous ceramahs, Perikatan Nasional held a grand finale in chairman Muhyiddin Yassin’s stronghold of Pagoh.
Speaking at PN’s final ceramah , PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man poked fun at BN and Umno.
“I look and look and I can’t see who their poster boy is,” he said.
“They don’t have any poster boys because all of them are either convicted or stuck in court,” he said in reference to Umno leaders including its president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and former prime minister Najib Razak who are facing corruption trials.
While ceramahs were restricted in physical numbers due to the election SOPs, both PH and PN used Facebook Live to reach thousands.
New party Pejuang also made a last-minute pitch to Johor voters to reject BN because of corruption.
Pejuang chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Johor party chief Shahruddin Md Salleh held a 40-minute Facebook live broadcast.
BN did not hold any functions tonight.
Instead, Umno showed a Facebook live interview with party president Zahid.
In the programme, Zahid laid out the party’s plans to revive the Johor economy and urged voters to choose stability. – March 11, 2022