Gerakan aiming for five parliamentary seats in GE14

KUALA LUMPUR: Gerakan is optimistic of winning five parliamentary and 12 state seats, including in Penang, in the upcoming 14th General Election (GE14), says party president Datuk Seri Dr Mah Siew Keong.

He said the party had also decided to contest in all the 45 seats which were traditionally allocated to them under the Barisan Nasional power sharing consensus.

He added Gerakan was also currently negotiating on five seats with other component parties on the possibility of either swapping seats or seeking additional seats.

“About 60 per cent of the candidates are new faces and many of them are youngsters.

“We are confident that we will do better than the last round,” Mah told a news conference after the 46th Gerakan National Delegates Conference ( NDC) at Menara PGRM concluded here yesterday.

The Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister said he had also submitted the name list of potential candidates to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Among them are Wanita chief, Datuk Tan Lian Hoe, Youth chief Tan Keng Liang and their respective deputies.

Asked if he would contest in Penang, Mah, who is Teluk Intan MP, said he would leave the matter to the party to decide.

A total of 22 resolutions were passed by the 1,778 national delegates attending the NDC this year. — Bernama