MyPPP allocation reduced to single seat for GE14

GE14 | MyPPP has been allocated only one seat by BN for the upcoming election, down from five in 2013.

The party's vice-president Loga Bala Mohan will be fielded in Segambut, Kuala Lumpur. He will be taking on DAP's Hannah Yeoh and PAS' Mohd Solleh Abd Razak.

Barring any last minute changes, MyPPP will likely be the only BN party in recent elections to bear the ignominy of being tasked with fielding only one candidate.

After sitting out of elections in the 1990s, PPP (as it was then known) was finally allowed by then BN chairperson Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to field two candidates in 2004.

Long-time party president M Kayveas came out victorious, winning the Taiping seat and becoming the party's first MP in 30 years.

By 2008, PPP was unable to win any of the two seats it was allocated. However, BN, under Najib Abdul Razak's leadership, increased PPP's quota by 2013 to one parliamentary candidate and four state candidates.

That election outing was disastrous for PPP, with the party being routed in Kepong, Kota Laksamana and Kota Alam Shah, while Kayveas himself polled only 23 percent of the ballots in the contest for Pasir Bedamar, a state seat in Perak.

PPP's saving grace was Nik Sapeia Nik Yusof, who lost the contest for the Guchil state seat in Kelantan to a PKR candidate by a mere 492 votes.

For this election, MyPPP had lobbied intensively for the rights to represent BN in the elections for two parliamentary and three state contests.

However, their main prize was the rights to be BN's candidate for Cameron Highlands and had lobbied for this right for three years.

The party's leadership had promised to "reconsider" their BN membership if their demand was not met.  -Mkini