GE15: PH confident of winning 100 parliamentary seats, needs 12 more seats
IPOH - Pakatan Harapan (PH) chairman Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is confident that the coalition is able to win 100 parliamentary seats in the 15th General Election (GE15).
He said the results of the latest study by the Invoke Malaysia Centre for Policy Initiative (Invoke) showed that PH could have control over the parliamentary seats from the opposition.
He said the party's focus now was to ensure it gained victory in 12 more parliamentary seats to get a simple majority of 112 seats to form a government.
"Invoke's final study was announced today, we have reached 100 (winnable) seats.
"We just need to work hard, push a little more to get 12 seats and we really hope to win," he said.
He said this during the Jelajah Mega Harapan Perak tour at Pasar Tambun, here on Sunday.
The PKR president said the coalition needed to work hard to secure victory because they were facing strong rivals described as the "giants".
"We are fighting with the giants and the rich, they are not holding meetings like us, look at the nomination of candidates, if PKR does it on the side of the field, we get wet when it rains.
"So we have to understand, we can't take it lightly. If we want to change, save our people, we have to accept the fact that if we don't work hard, it will be difficult for us to achieve that victory," he said.
Anwar who announced that he will be contesting in Tambun said the constituency has become his home in his political struggle.
However, the opposition leader said he was not able to spend more time due to his responsibility to help with PH's campaign nationwide.
"I want to apologise because I won't be able to be here every night. Tomorrow I was asked to be in Sabah, the day after that in Sarawak, after that Terengganu and Kelantan.
"If we want PH to win, I have to do this (nationwide campaign), or else we will win in Tambun and lose in other places," he said.
In every general election, the ruling party needed at least 112 of the total 222 seats in the Dewan Rakyat to form a government.
In GE14, PH which consisted of four opposition parties namely DAP, PKR, Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) won 113 parliamentary seats, thus had the right to form the government.
