PKR logo important, says MP on party’s ditching of PH logo in Johor

PKR logo important, says MP on party’s ditching of PH logo in Johor

The Pakatan Harapan presidential council have agreed on PKR using its own logo while Amanah and DAP will contest under the PH banner.

Both PKR and Pakatan Harapan logos will be used in the Johor state elections.
PETALING JAYA:
Bayan Baru MP Sim Tze Tzin has stressed the importance of PKR using its own logo at the upcoming Johor elections.

“In competitive seats where PKR is contesting, every vote counts,” he said on Twitter.

“I have first-hand experience from the Melaka state elections that familiarity with the PKR logo is important,” he added.

Earlier today, Pakatan Harapan chairman Anwar Ibrahim said that PKR will use its own logo at the Johor polls while Amanah and DAP will contest under the PH banner.

“With regard to our logo, a consensus has been reached. PKR will use its own logo while the other component parties will use the PH logo,” Anwar said.

The opposition leader was speaking to the media after a PH presidential council meeting at the PKR headquarters here today.

The Election Commission will meet on Feb 9 to set the dates for nominations and polling.

There were differences within the coalition over a unified logo for the Melaka elections in November.

DAP leader Liew Chin Tong was previously reported to have said that while DAP and Amanah had pushed for the coalition to compete under the PH logo, factions within PKR wanted the coalition to contest under the PKR logo as they did in the victorious 2018 general election campaign.

PH competed in GE14 under the PKR banner as the coalition was yet to be officially registered at the time. However, that applied only in the peninsula as DAP was allowed to use its own logo in Sabah and Sarawak.

In the end, all three parties contested in the Melaka polls under the coalition’s banner.

This was in contrast to the Sarawak elections last month, which saw PKR, DAP and Amanah each use their own party logos.

Both Melaka and Sarawak turned out to be poor outings for PH, which won five of the 28 seats in Melaka and two of the 82 seats in Sarawak.

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