Mandarin and football liven up sluggish Mahkota campaign

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Barisan Nasional and Perikatan Nasional employ different strategies to bring out the vote for the Sept 28 by-election.   Read More:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2024/09/22/mandarin-and-football-liven-up-sluggish-mahkota-campaign/   Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #BarisanNasional #PerikatanNasional #PRKMahkota

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00:00After a sluggish week of the Makuta by-election campaign, Amno's Syed Hussein Syed Abdullah's

00:08fluent Mandarin and Perikatan Nasional's Haizan Jafar's football obsession have been talking

00:14points.

00:15Haizan, known as Coach Haizan, has focused on sports, which resonates with the youth

00:21but lacks broader appeal, while Syed Hussein's fluency in Mandarin and his Chinese nickname,

00:26Sai Fu Sing, have given him an edge with the Chinese community.

00:31An Amno leader, who did not wish to be named, said Chinese voters play a crucial role in

00:37the by-election and the party is working hard to ensure a strong turnout from them.

00:42PN appears to be ignoring Chinese voters and focusing on predominantly Malay areas, with

00:49a PN leader who spoke on condition of anonymity, saying that the coalition hopes for a low

00:54Chinese voter turnout, believing it would secure their victory.

00:59Meanwhile, with Churamas losing appeal, PN has organised smaller-scale Churamas, while

01:05BN sticks to the traditional approach of visiting communities and its leaders, including Malay

01:11NGOs and village heads.

01:14A PN leader said Coach Haizan has been told to not constantly harp on about sports and

01:20focus on local issues.

01:23Similarly, an Amno leader said they have also told Syed Hussein to not oversell his Mandarin-speaking

01:29capabilities, highlighting that he needed to appeal not only to Chinese voters, but

01:34to Malay voters too.

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