Muda president Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman and party secretary-general Nur Amira Aisya Abd Aziz are expected to be fielded as candidates in Johor. Syed Saddiq, one of the founders of the party, is MP for Muar.

The party, officially registered last month, bills itself as the party for young Malaysians. About 6% of the 2.5 million voters in Johor comprise those aged 18 to 20 years old, following the lowering of the voting age.

Johor Muda chairman Mohd Azrol Rahani has said the party is currently preparing its machinery and manifesto for the elections, and that the party has more than 12,000 members in the state.

Muda had previously negotiated with PH to contest in the Melaka state elections on Nov 20.

However, Syed Saddiq then said Muda had decided not to work with PH after the latter’s “insistence on putting up these frogs”, a reference to two of the four Melaka assemblymen whose defections led to the fall of the state government in October.