REMBAU: Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan today said he has a fifty-fifty chance of winning the Rantau by-election on April 13.
This is the first time Mohamad has rated his chances since the campaigning period began on Saturday.
It was previously reported that Dr S. Streram, who is Pakatan Harapan's candidate, put his chances of winning at between 60 and 70 per cent.
"Even though I have served as Rantau assemblyman for three terms, I still think I have a 50-50 chance.
"Just look, many of their (PH) leaders have come here to campaign, including Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail," he told reporters here today.
Yesterday (April 2), Anwar held three ceramah events in Rantau to stump for Dr Streram, who plans to wrest the Rantau state seat from Barisan Nasional.
Anwar and Dr Wan Azizah are expected to visit Rantau again tomorrow night to campaign for Dr Streram and attend PKR's 20th anniversary celebrations at Dataran Rantau here.
Senior PH leaders are also expected to attend the celebrations.
Meanwhile, Mohamad urged voters not to fall for the "psychological warfare" allegedly being waged by the PH election machinery.
"They are creating the perception that I will win comfortably.
"This can make my party machinery become complacent and comfortable. This quite worrying but I hope those living outside Rantau will still come back to vote and not be influenced by such things."
The Rantau by-election is a four-cornered fight between Mohamad from Barisan Nasional, Dr Streram from Pakatan Harapan, and two independent candidates R. Malarvizhi and Mohd Nor Yassin.
Polling day for the by-election has been set for April 13, with early voting being held four days earlier.
The by-election was called after the Federal Court dismissed an appeal filed by Mohamad to set aside an Election Court decision to declare his victory in the 14th general election (GE14) null and void.
Mohamad had won the seat uncontested in May 2018 after Dr Streram was unable to submit his nomination papers after being denied entry into the nomination centre for not having a pass issued by the EC.
The seat has 20,926 registered voters, including 118 early voters and four absentee voters.
