DAP’s Alice Lau retains Lanang, promises to continue hard work
SIBU: Incumbent Alice Lau, who retained the Lanang parliamentary constituency for the Democratic Action Party (DAP), attributed her victory to people’s hope for a new government.
Thanking her voters, she promised to continue her hard work to serve the people.
“I think it is because voters in Sibu and Lanang – they see hope in changing a new government.
“I think they see my hard work and I promise I will continue to work hard and will not disappoint them,” Lau told reporters when met at Lanang vote tally centre in SMK Methodist here last night.
She garnered 30,120 votes to beat Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) candidate Wong Ching Yong (18,576 votes), Parti Sarawak Bersatu’s (PSB) Priscilla Lau (3,663 votes) and Independent candidate Dato Wong Tiing Kiong (587 votes) to win by a majority of 11,544 votes.
Adding on, Lau reckoned that the good weather here compared to Peninsular Malaysia also contributed to people coming out to vote, with the seat seeing a 61.78 per cent voter turnout.
She explained that although the turnout was lower this time compared to about
75 per cent previously, the number of registered voters in the constituency had in fact increased.
“The number of registered voters in Lanang is higher (now) – about 85,000 compared to about 62,000 previously,” she said.
Lau also observed that the number of votes she garnered had increased this time due to voters seeing what she had done all these years.
Adding to her joy was the fact that she had made a breakthrough into four Ibanmajority polling stations, which she had never won before.
“They are Ulu Naman, Naman, Nibong and Sungai Pak. I think it is a very big encouragement for me as people see our hard work all this while,” she said.
On her immediate plan, she needs to see if PH (Pakatan Harapan) can recapture Putrajaya, and if not, to continue to fight for Sarawak’s rights and that of her constituency.