SHAH ALAM: Pakatan Harapan (PH) will complete by October its preparations for the general election "war".
PH chairman Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said the pact was devising a new strategy by drawing lessons from its poor showing in the Melaka and Johor elections.
"In October, we will be fully prepared. We acknowledge some weaknesses in the state elections, but now we see that the atmosphere is different.
"(The state election results) were influenced by the PH government's 22-month rule, whether it was from its contributions or weakness.
"Because of this, in the last meeting, our decision was to be together in PH with one logo, but by making adjustments so as not to burden the people with the assumption that our approach is the same (as before).
"If PKR is under the Director of Elections (PKR Deputy President, Rafizi Ramli) now, the strategy is much different," he said.
Anwar, who is also PKR president, said this at a press conference after attending the PKR 2022 Election Convention here, today. Also present were Rafizi and PKR's top leadership.
Asked if PH would join the big tent approach, Anwar said: "The last PH meeting decided that the coalition's priority is to strengthen and round out PH's determination as one body... period.
"PH is a strong coalition, so we are strengthening this coalition. This coalition has proven itself in the 2013 and 2018 elections, so we should strengthen it a little more. In the PH meeting and the latest (approach), no more problems surfaced," he said.
Rafizi said it was still too early for the party and the pact to set out which seat it would contest in GE15, apart from the three states it currently controls.
"We need to look at the data and we get this data at the end of every month. Maybe in the next one or two months, the picture will be clearer," he said. -
