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KUALA LUMPUR: MIC is not overly ambitious about running candidates in the next general election, its Vice President M Saravanan said today.
Instead, the MIC, Malaysia’s oldest and largest political party, would assess the current situation before making any decision on electoral seats.
Saravanan said that MIC will contest its nine traditional seats and 18 state seats in the upcoming general elections, and hopes that the leadership of Barisan Nasional (BN) will agree to run in the parliamentary electoral districts of Padang Serai (Kedah) and Teluk Intan (Perak). .
In the 2018 general elections, MIC won one of the nine parliamentary seats and three of the 18 state seats it contested. The only parliamentary seat he won was in Tapah, where Saravanan is a deputy.
“Now, (with) Muafakat Nasional (MN) and Bersatu, we (MIC) may have to share (seats) with the other parties. Therefore, we cannot be too ambitious, we will wait and see.
“If there is no new consensus, maybe we will ask for more seats as there are vacant seats from Gerakan,” Samy Vellu told reporters at the Wisma Tun S opening ceremony here today.
Gerakan, a founding member of BN, decided to leave the coalition in June 2018 after failing to secure any seats.
