BN to carry out post-mortem on failure to regain Selangor
SHAH ALAM: The Selangor Barisan Nasional ( BN) will carry out a post- mortem on its failure to regain the state from the opposition comprising PAS, PKR and DAP, and loss of more state seats in the 13th General Election.
Selangor BN deputy chairman Datuk Seri Noh Omar who attributed the scenario to a ‘ tsunami of Chinese voters’, said the state coalition would carry out an indepth study on why the community had aligned itself to the opposition, despite the various BN assistance channelled to them.
“I don’t think I have not helped the Chinese. We were stumped when we lost substantially, especially in constituencies where the majority are Chinese.
“Why did they not vote for us when they had supported us in our activities and programmes? We thought we had a good chance of winning,” he told a press conference at the Selangor Umno headquarters here yesterday.
In the general election on Sunday, the BN only won 12 of the 56 state seats and five of the 22 parliamentary seats.
The state BN won 20 state seats and five parliamentary seats in the 2008 general election.
Noh, who retained his Tanjong Karang parliamentary seat for the fifth time, said the election results showed that democracy was alive and well in the country.
“The election went smoothly and fairly. In some places, the BN lost narrowly; similarly, the
I don’t think I have not helped the Chinese. We were stumped when we lost substantially, especially in constituencies where the majority are Chinese. Datuk Seri Noh Omar, Selangor BN deputy chairman
opposition. Judging from the BN’s situation in Selangor and in the country in general, the people can see that democracy is in practice and we should accept the outcome as decided by the people,” he said.
Noh dismissed a suggestion that the choice of candidates had contributed to the loss, saying that in some areas, candidates who were not objected to, during the selection, still lost their bid.
Meanwhile, he left it to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who is also Selangor BN chairman, to restructure the state BN. — Bernama