Perikatan Nasional will not contest the upcoming Sabah by-elections for the Kinabatangan parliamentary and Lamag state seats, following a supreme council decision.
KUANTAN: Perikatan Nasional (PN) will not field candidates in the upcoming by-elections for the Kinabatangan parliamentary and Lamag state seats in Sabah.
PAS deputy president Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said the decision was made during the PN Supreme Council meeting in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
The Election Commission will hold a special meeting on December 16 to determine the key dates for both by-elections.
The seats became vacant following the death of incumbent Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin on December 5.
Bung Moktar, who was 66, passed away at a private hospital in Kota Kinabalu less than a week after being re-elected as the Lamag assemblyman.
He retained his Lamag state seat with a 153-vote majority in a six-cornered fight during the Sabah state election on November 29.
Bung Moktar had been the Kinabatangan MP since first winning the seat in the 1999 general election, serving six consecutive terms.
